The weekend
Life in Fiji is hard, wake up, breakfast, swim, kayak, snorkel,go for a meal, bedtime. This is pretty much the story of both Saturday and Sunday.
We did manage to look around the gardens of the hotel on Saturday, which are lovely but not quite as big as you first imagine.they are immaculately kept,their whole purpose being to make the resort look impressive as you arrive. We found the health centre, the fitness gym, the squash courts sand the mini golf.
There are Australians here in vast numbers and a new batch arrived on Saturday as the some of the old guard left. Some are really nice but others are very brash and noisy. They seem to have left their manners at home and ask the staff for something  without a please or a thank you. Australia is obviously a very important market for the hotel as every price is quoted in both Fijian and Australian dollars. They certainly seem to have no qualms at all about coming to a dictatorship.
Interestingly there are also a large number of Indians and Chinese here. It is clear to me that these two races will form the great majority of tourists over the next decade.
We did have a minor disaster on Sunday which was partly of my making. As I stood up on our balcony to get the expedition manager a banana for her after lunch treat, the elastic clothes line pulled the chair it was attached to,on which I had been sitting, into the table, tipping it over and sending a glass crashing onto the balcony floor and two beers over the balcony to the floor three stories down. The major casualty was our sharp knife, bought months ago in Australia, which also fell three floors. The handle on it is smashed and it will now not be making the journey home with us. It certainly owes us nothing. The maid, luckily for me was out in the corridor and she immediately came in and swept the balcony. According to Rosemarie when she saw me collecting the beers can and the knife she started laughing.
On Saturday night we went to the fish restaurant here and had a great meal, we were the last to leave the restaurant and went to the edge to look at the fish swimming in a spotlight deliberately set so as to attract them. Because we had shown some interest the kitchen staff gave us some bread to feed them and we spent a very happy twenty minutes or so feeding the fish which seemed voraciously hungry. The expedition wildlife spotter wa avery pleased with herself.
On Sunnday we ordered one meal in via room service and the guy who delivered it took great interest in the fact I had Rosemarie's pay as you go SIM card in his hand, he showed Rosemariemhow to get the Internet on her phone for 5 Fijian dollars about £1.80 for a week and he was very lovely.
Our meal was food and we retired early as we had a big trip planned on Monday.