Willandclaire’s Travels

We were so happy to be leaving New Zealand, not because it wasn’t amazing, it was, but it was chuffing cold and we needed the sand, sea and sun (especially the sun!).

Mana Island

After luckily only spending one night in Nadi we took a boat to Mana Island. It was beautiful, white sandy beaches, blue sea and lots of sun. Apparently the program Survivor was filmed there, Will and I didn’t care enough to look. We watched some amazing sunsets and Will did some cool diving. Also we think we may have ate a puppy which I was nearly in tears over. The first night we went out and there were 4 very cute pups, the next day we had some dodgy meat for lunch, it was disgusting, it was fleshy and had lots of bones in it, anyway the guys in our hostel kept saying it was a puppy! But the next night we went to see the pups and there were only 3 of them, so sad!

Mana island was good, we met some crazy irish guys, one of them we buried in the sand when we were drunk but he was too drunk to care and probably would have stayed there all night if we hadn’t of moved him. We got to watch some fijian dancing and flame dancing, it was very nice and relaxing (and warm, fianlly).

Coral View Island

Our next stop was Coral View Island, it was a very nice island with the best accomodation we have stayed in in a while. Will got to do lots of diving and was also offered a job there which he may have said yes to if it wasn’t on a tiny island. Will also did a shark feeding dive. We also went snorkeling in the blue lagoon, where the Blue lagoon movie with Brooke Shields was filmed. The sea was so clear and gorgeous.

White Sandy Beach

The next stop was Kuata island for one night, it was a gorgeous little island but very basic accomodation, our friends next door found a mouse in their room, the scream was classic, it made us check under the bed, luckily we didn’t find any.

We than caught the boat to White Sandy Beach which was just a beautiful little island, with a white sandy beach. We did some manta ray snorkeling but didn’t see any and just spent the last few days soaking up the sun and learning the Bola dance.

The Beachhouse

When we got back to the mainland we headed south to The Beachhouse, Love Island was filmed at the resort. It was a nice place, very relaxed and chilled out.

We got attacked by a skinny little dog called peanut, we were unhappy about that! Got to read alot outside where it was very very windy and not very sunny. We also went to a Rugby game, it took about 3 hours to get to, mostly on dirt roads, it was awesome, men were passed out from drinking Kava, women were screaming at the game and football boots were being broken and switched round every 10 minutes. It was a good game, all we know is that the red team won but we (our drivers) didn’t want them to win.

Our last night involved a little too much drinking and why do people invent drinking games?? They always end badly!

Next stop Australia…..