A true desert island experience (almost)

We were up before six to be ready for our pick up at 7.15. Room service provided breakfast and we enjoyed that sitting on our balcony.
The bus stopped at every hotel on the way to the Port of Denarau and picked clients up, as we were the first pick up we were on the bus for over 3 hours arriving in Denarau at 10.30.
We were shown to our sailing ship and having boarded set sail for the Island of Tivua. This took an hour and a half but who cares, we were cruising in the South Pacific past several little islands, the scenery was marvellous, little islands with golden beaches over shadowed by bigger islands often some way off all set in the clearest sea I have ever seen under a bright blue sky.
On arrival at the island we were offloaded onto smaller boats to get us ashore. The whole island was just as you imagine golden beaches, pristinely clear water , palm trees and it took all of six minutes to walk around it.
We had a Cava ceremony , we tasted this national drink and both of us disliked it. It looks like the water you might take from a muddy puddle. After the ceremony there were several activities on offer, we went kayaking, had a wonder ride in a glass bottom boat over the coral reef and before we knew it it was time for lunch.
Lunch was a barbecue with salads and it was very tasty. After lunch Elias gave us our first snorkelling lesson and the expedition manager suddenly became the expedition diver. After almost mastering the basics, Elias took us out onto the reef so that we could see the very colourful fish there and allowed us to touch the coral to see it change colour. This was without doubt one of the most magical moments of this journey, We both said afterwards that snorkelling was not something we thought we would every do.
After our snorkelling adventure it was time to pack up to leave, and we sailed back to Denarau, they did set the mainsail and a jib and the catamaran we were on looked wonderful to us. As we sailed back to port we were serenaded by a trip of Fijian musicians and we enjoyed their traditional songs.
Once we were back on the bus we had another two and half hours before we got home, so on arrival at our hotel we looked and felt like two,well used sponges. A light meal and bed ended a day we shall both  dream about for some considerable time.