It was weird this morning as I was awoken by my phones sound for low battery. I don't know how this happened although it was just as well because I would have slept through my alarm otherwise. Due to the fact this went off just before I intended to get up I just left my phone on charge and headed straight out for breakfast. With all meals being included on the island we were treated to another buffet this time consisting of sausage, beans, toast and fruit. The sausages were really weird though and looked like pigs tails! Like in Thailand with pineapple, I am also starting to get sick of watermelon. I have had so many chunks of this since being in Fiji!
With my plans for Beachcomber to be relaxing, I spent the first part of the morning in bed writing a blog, which feels weird being able to write but not post. In terms of things to do I had an array of activities to choose from including parasailing, jet skiing and banana boating, all of which were really expensive. Due to the fact I wanted to get something other than laying in the sun and swimming around all day like yesterday, I opted to go for a kayak in the end with a couple of others. We tried to haggle with the price and in the end managed to get ourselves extra hire time.
With a kayak each hired for an hour and a half, we decided to kayak to this tiny island which had a shelter on which we passed coming into Beachcomber. It was either there or the neighboring resort of Treasure Island which is a more posh resort unlike the party island popular with backpackers I am on. Taking about an half an hour to paddle in what was a tough paddle being against the tide, we eventually arrived on this tiny island. After having a quick photo shoot on the island which was made possible by taking our phones in my dry bag, we spent a further half hour or so snorkeling round this island. There was the odd coral and fish although the sea floor was very rocky if anything. The water was crystal clear however.
Before long it came time to leave the small island to head back to Beachcomber. You could really see how small the island was from where we were as it was dwarfed by the neighboring Treasure Island. I really liked the wooden shelter covered in ferns which someone had built on the island we paddled to though which gave off much needed shade. In the end the paddle back to Beachcomber took less than half hour as we were going with the tide. Due to unbearable heat of the day the first thing I did when returning was jump in the islands pool to cool down which was really nice and refreshing.
In the end we ended up staying in the pool right through until lunch time, quickly drying off and loading our plates up with food from the buffet which was once again a bbq including things like lamb, fish and sausage. The thing I like about Beachcomber is the fact the food just keeps coming! After finishing lunch I decided to spend the afternoon having a nap in the hammock underneath a palm tree. Being a shaded spot, the idea of being on a sandy island for a nap under a palm tree actually appealed to me! To be perfectly honest the islands are designed to be relaxing and it is probably good for me to chill out a bit.
In the end I ended up napping until around 4, only being awoken by the sun as it was setting. This was a little bad as I promised to play volleyball at 3, although it wasn't all bad as I was able to say goodbye to the next 3 people to leave the group back to Nadi, which just happened to be all the Germans. This left 7 of us from the original group remaining. After waving them off it was nice to meet these Danish guys who showed a particular passion for English football. It was really nice to get a long overdue proper football chat as one of them even had a pretty decent knowledge of Southampton!
After heading back to the room to relax because I was feeling a little light headed, it came the time for dinner which this evening was a curry night. This included a beef, fish and chicken curry, although one was really hot! Once again there was generous portions, although you could go up as many times as desired. Dessert was even better this evening though being ice cream with syrup which felt really homely!
From here I finally used my free WiFi code, although it only worked after encountering a few problems initially. I spent a fair while catching up on things before meeting up with the others as it was our last night as a group and also my last on Beachcomber. It was pretty disappointing though as the island is billed as party island and there was like no one there and also expensive drinks at island prices. Due to this most people had an early night, although I was pretty content as my WiFi which was meant to last an hour was still working which meant I could do a quick skype call before I followed suit and went to bed.
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