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More , but from the G10

Jacs being a funny bugger, as I'm taking shots of east coast , and trying to show Jacs, but this is her way of dealing with her fear of flyingbite harderI can play silly bugger pretty good too :-)Landed

Fiji > Sydney

After an hour or more ( I'd say more ) we fly over these islands again, tried to find them on google earth, no luckawesomenessright on top of itzooming in , and just a tiny patch of dry sand, everything else underwaterAustralian East Coast, my guess, somewhere near hawks nestgoing downNorthern beachesgreat shot of north headplane doing a big banking turn just in front wedding cake island, coogee. And the white speck you see in the city skyline is the opera houseGreat shot of the entrance to Botany bay ( James Cooks first stop in Oz ) and Kurnell, note the tanker heading out the heads, as we will see it again, after we do another big banking turn, as we are just cruising along the coast at this stage and not lined up with the runway for landinggreat shot of Cronulla, showing the complete curve of the beach from boat harbour to the entrance of Port Hackingand as I thought , there the tanker heading further out to sea as we fly over one of my fav locations againcan you spot the cars in the car park, where we were parkedKurnellBotanyLanded, Vietnam Airlines ? Never seen one beforehmmm, Vanuatu :-)

Namotu Lefts and Tavarua seen from plane during take off . . .sick

Plane just took off, sitting top deck again, and have a feeling I'm about to get an epic view of cloudbreakYes, there's Namotu coming up now, with the right hander behind it I surfed the other dayAwesome, so there we have Tavarua, and Namotu, and looks like no swell hitting Tavaruaoh my , this awesome, what a great view, so want to go back down to those island, perhaps even stay for a week or 4 oh sick, it gets better, now we can clearly see the left breaking at cloudbreak at the edge of the reef, and it looks like it is working as well, from here, looks like a nice 3 foot peeling leftand then look at all those islands at the top, awesome, apparently one of those is were they filmed one of those survivor series, and that Tom Hanks movie when his plane crashedBye Fiji, hope to see you again

Time to leave

but not without first cleaning a bit of dust of the runway :-)ooops missed a spot, okay ready for take off

Heading back to the village

Picture perfect waterfall, oh what a joy to have seen it , and been in it :-)Miriama leads the way backtranquilbeautiful lightI think Appi will grow up to be a real gentlemanFake banana plantBelieve it or not, but this is a seed podI'm taking down their postal address so I can send them some photosThis, from the road on the way out of the village , can you spot the cows
then this, the famous airport, where you turn of the highway

Biusevu village waterfall, Fiji

Would love to have these growing in the garden Biusevu village waterfallthe water is sooo nice and refreshing, but that cold snap refreshing, just nice on a warm tropical dayOne of the local kids who came along with us for the walk, Apenisa, but they all called him AppiAnd like me, he loves jumping of the waterfallMy turn, and crikey, my back is looking scary red after that surf yesterdayAppi shows me the wayLooks easy from here, but I had a little struggle at first trying to find a foot holdnearly thereAppi & I are just loving it up hereIn there somewhereLoving it hereAaaahhAppi just had to get another jump ina good spot to say your vowsmy , I'm red, I'm going to be hurting laterNearly lobster redO.K. time to say good bye to this place

Waterfall at Korolevu , Fiji

So like I said, we were told about this great waterfall, turn at the airport, up dirt road etc...but we were also told that it being a sunday, it might not happen, especially so late in the afternoon. But lucky us, here we are on our 25minute trek to the waterfall from Biusevu villagePast the blue houseThat's Miriama, our guidePast the old tractorcrossing onetwothreefourfivesixseveneight crossing later ( I'm sure I missed one ) and we get closer to the waterfall tropical paradisenearly thereThere it is

Queens Highway, Fiji

On we go Love how the green lush velvety natural carpet, goes all the way to the beachBureBoys will be boys, or maybe I should call, good wholesome fun. No Wii or Xbox's hereloving the canopyHeading inland now at Korolevu

Indian lunch

Decided to something different today, and rent a car ( they promote, at the resort, all these tours and day trips to go on, but we like to do it ourselves and not with a group) as we heard about this waterfall about an hour from the resort we are at. So on our way , we stop off at a little indian restaurant for yummy seafood lunchoh my look at how red my nose is, ouch. Yep, counting beans heheheCapital Y yum

Snorkel o'clock

Whilst here, just had to go for a snorkel, I mean, look at the colours, and keeping in mind that these are taken with a basic point and shoot underwater camera, nothing professional Some sort of a slug , the size of your footSo many of these aroundFish, big enough to eat, everywhereSome form of coral, soft to touch, with Nemo hiding on the bottom right somewhereClose up of same coral. spongy thingNo, I'm not at an aquarium , these fish really are all hereJust like this Turner fishIs this a parrot fish ? Let me have a closer look at that coral it is swimming pastCool patternAnother weird type of sea slug, twice as big as the other oneCan you spot the fish, I wonder if it is one of those deadly ones ?