January 15
After another great breakfast and several hours of
instruction, we go to the pool for a swim.
The weather is beautiful and I have never seen a sky as blue as this
one. We basically hang out and eat
leftovers for lunch before getting in the car to go for a drive. We are headed to an exclusive part of the
island known as Denerau Island. It is a
bit of reclaimed land on which luxury resorts have been built and it is connected
to the mainland by a secured bridge. We
drive through downtown Nadi and head out the other side down some winding roads
until we reach the guard station. We
pass through and feel like we are in an alternate reality. Groomed lawns, lovely rolling hills of golf
courses, gated homes (and I mean wrought-iron), tidy streets and finally high
end shops with price tags to match. We
enter the carpark (going the wrong direction) and finally get it right. These brightly lit and air conditioned shops
stand in sharp contrast to where we have been in Nadi and Sigotoka. It is as if this could be anywhere in the
world and the generic, plastic, overpriced nature is really off-putting to
Paulie and me. The kids, on the other
hand, have now found something familiar that they can relate to. We might as well be at Crabtree….add a couple
of palm trees…..except the prices.
Sunblock goes for FJD$34 or USD$25….no thanks! We browse and return to our car for a grocery
trip in the part of town we came from.
We ride home and again cool off in the pool for a while. Reading and Journaling comes next with a
home-made dinner of Chicken, Rice and Veggies served up shortly after. Since our dive trip is tomorrow, we go to bed
around 9:30. Sweet dreams.
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