2nd day at Tubakula Beach Bungalows
We packed up our things in preparation for going back to Nadi in the afternoon. Breakfast was egg on toast, one of my favorites! We took a morning snorkel in the bay in front of the bungalows. It's amazing how beautiful and interesting the fish are when you're snorkeling! I saw the complete body of a moray eel swimming near the coral. Usually you just see a part of it's body peeking out from a hole in the coral. This one was the Full Monty!
The tide was quite low and we were skimming over some of the weeds on the coral at times. The best thing was that we were so close to the surface that the colors of the fish were absolutely brilliant! There were so many flourscent blue fish that they were the "common" fish.
On the other side of the coin, the sea worms are some of the ugliest creatures I've ever seen. I guess they're the ocean floor garbage collectors. They look like moving intestines with a grotesque tentacled mouths. I hope I never step on one of these things!
John waded out in the bay later on with his camera and took some neat photos of all types of sea critters from the surface, including a moray eel.
Lunch was Spagetti Bolognaise for John, kind of very dry spagetti with meat and carrots with a dash of sauce. I had the vegetarian dish - Pasta with Tomato Sauce and Herbs. Mine wasn't too bad, though Prego and Ragu have nothing to worry about from Fiji!
We had been told the bus to Nadi comes by about every half hour. In actuality, shortly after noontime when we were ready to take it, the next bus wasn't due until 2:30 p.m. Oh well, "Fiji Time" gets us again!
The bus had "Fiji A/C" which means no A/C but all the windows were open. It was a nice ride from the bungalows to Nadi. We hit the ATM in Nadi, bought some soft drinks and caught the 5 pm local bus ($0.60) to our lodging for the evening, the Beach Escape Villas. The villas were pretty nice. They had good AC, a refrigerator and full kitchen facilities (no microwave). The only issue with ours was it didn't have the A/C remote control. This might seem like a luxury, except that there were no identifiable controls on the A/C unit itself. It was running full bore and later in the evening we didn't have enough "blanket" to keep us warm. Had to shut if off "cold turkey" so to speak.
We had learned out lesson at the Villas, the lodging value was quite good, but the serving of meals at their restaurant led one to believe that every meal was made individally from scratch. This may sound like a good idea, but when you wait an hour or more to get your meals, it kind of blows any other plans you had for the evening. We ate at another hostel and were able to spend some time trying to catch up on Internet stuff, like trying to get our U.S. ticket agent to send us the tickets we would need before leaving for Australia.
By the way, I had a "banana split" which consisted of three scoops of Vanilla ice cream surrounded by a quartered banana. No sauce. Is that you're definition of what a banana split is? Oh well, it wasn't bad. Who can complain about ice cream? And it was supposed to come with a saucew per it's description. I just didn't want to ask her about it and have her come back with sauce floating on a cup of milk. Ice cream doesn't last long in solid state in Fiji!
Our taxi driver was a young Fijian Indian (family from India) man. He said his brother worked in New Zealand. When we asked if he might visit him he said it was extremely difficult for a Fijian Indian to get a visa to New Zealand. I don't know what that's all about.
We packed up our things in preparation for going back to Nadi in the afternoon. Breakfast was egg on toast, one of my favorites! We took a morning snorkel in the bay in front of the bungalows. It's amazing how beautiful and interesting the fish are when you're snorkeling! I saw the complete body of a moray eel swimming near the coral. Usually you just see a part of it's body peeking out from a hole in the coral. This one was the Full Monty!
The tide was quite low and we were skimming over some of the weeds on the coral at times. The best thing was that we were so close to the surface that the colors of the fish were absolutely brilliant! There were so many flourscent blue fish that they were the "common" fish.
On the other side of the coin, the sea worms are some of the ugliest creatures I've ever seen. I guess they're the ocean floor garbage collectors. They look like moving intestines with a grotesque tentacled mouths. I hope I never step on one of these things!
John waded out in the bay later on with his camera and took some neat photos of all types of sea critters from the surface, including a moray eel.
Lunch was Spagetti Bolognaise for John, kind of very dry spagetti with meat and carrots with a dash of sauce. I had the vegetarian dish - Pasta with Tomato Sauce and Herbs. Mine wasn't too bad, though Prego and Ragu have nothing to worry about from Fiji!
We had been told the bus to Nadi comes by about every half hour. In actuality, shortly after noontime when we were ready to take it, the next bus wasn't due until 2:30 p.m. Oh well, "Fiji Time" gets us again!
The bus had "Fiji A/C" which means no A/C but all the windows were open. It was a nice ride from the bungalows to Nadi. We hit the ATM in Nadi, bought some soft drinks and caught the 5 pm local bus ($0.60) to our lodging for the evening, the Beach Escape Villas. The villas were pretty nice. They had good AC, a refrigerator and full kitchen facilities (no microwave). The only issue with ours was it didn't have the A/C remote control. This might seem like a luxury, except that there were no identifiable controls on the A/C unit itself. It was running full bore and later in the evening we didn't have enough "blanket" to keep us warm. Had to shut if off "cold turkey" so to speak.
We had learned out lesson at the Villas, the lodging value was quite good, but the serving of meals at their restaurant led one to believe that every meal was made individally from scratch. This may sound like a good idea, but when you wait an hour or more to get your meals, it kind of blows any other plans you had for the evening. We ate at another hostel and were able to spend some time trying to catch up on Internet stuff, like trying to get our U.S. ticket agent to send us the tickets we would need before leaving for Australia.
By the way, I had a "banana split" which consisted of three scoops of Vanilla ice cream surrounded by a quartered banana. No sauce. Is that you're definition of what a banana split is? Oh well, it wasn't bad. Who can complain about ice cream? And it was supposed to come with a saucew per it's description. I just didn't want to ask her about it and have her come back with sauce floating on a cup of milk. Ice cream doesn't last long in solid state in Fiji!
Our taxi driver was a young Fijian Indian (family from India) man. He said his brother worked in New Zealand. When we asked if he might visit him he said it was extremely difficult for a Fijian Indian to get a visa to New Zealand. I don't know what that's all about.
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