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Just a quick note to everyone, sorry for the lack of entries on this site! I’m currently working on a big-big post with all my pics and stuff from my travels round NZ and its taking some time…stay tuned!

TTFN

Dave
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Hi All,

By now you have realised that I am still alive!

Thanks for the concern peeps, to be honest we only new about the ‘threat’ of a Tsunami after the actual alert had be cancelled! - nice to know they were lookin out for us holiday makers eh

Its ok though, coz I had sussed out a good spot on a roof if a disaster should strike (I was sunbathing at the time), and of course with my new-found surfing skills i’m sure I could have surfed out of it anyway

Anyways, there was a wave, but only 2ft tall so nothing to get excited about. Sorry if it worried you all but I supposed the media gets in a frenzy about things like this now. Just at the airport awaiting my flight to NZ, imagine the disasters which loom ahead of me now, like airline food and DVT

TTFN

Hello!

Well here I am, back in Nadi after a gruelling few weeks on the Fijian Islands. I have done so much over the past 21 days and met so many great people, its been a real travelling experience. I can’t really go through everything that I got up to because otherwise I’d be here all day but some of the highlights include:

• Diving with sharks
• Playing volleyball practically every day
• Drinking Fijian ‘Kava’ - a drink which can only be compared to downing a puddle but helps you sleep easy
• Visiting Fijian villages and meeting a chief (and paying him $5 for the privilage, which apparently he spends on his holidays to Washington D.C. )
• Sea kyaking to remote islands - and struggling back through changing rip-tides!
• Night diving - and finding a turtle, who we then woke up so it made for a better picture
• Having an amazing birthday on Beachcomber Island - thanks to Daz, Kel, Hanna, Jo for making it a truely memorable event
• Watching a movie under the stars, whilst eating fresh hot popcorn! - hard life eh?
• Snorkelling amidst a HUGE shoal of fish
• Seeing the most colourful coral I have ever seen
• Sailing a 4 man catamaran - thanks to Harri(first mate) and Jo(skipper) for showing me and Daz the ropes
• Transferring from one tinny boat to another in high seas
• Sharing my dorm bed with a mouse, who ate my peanuts and then poo’d in the tin!
• Doing many of these things in between unscheduled toilet breaks thanks to a week-long bout of ‘Fijian Tummy’
• Having a top lad to share all these experiences with. Thanks Daz

So now its all over for me in Fiji and I’m moving on to New Zealand (NZ) on the 5th, I have a few days to chill out back at the Nadi Bay Hotel, finishing my books and topping up on the tan, which I have to say is looking pretty damn good now!
Flying in to Auckland for my first stop where i’ll be staying for 3 nights and i’ll try and get my camera fixed (or buy a new one) before hopping on a bus tour or meeting some other randoms to go travelling with!

Love to all family back home and hey-up to all me mates - thanks for the birthday wishes

TTFN

P.S. I have been instructed to give a ‘Shout Out’ to two girls from Buxton town…
Sorry Cat and Lins, I don’t do requests