08-2011-Savusavu to Port Denarau Marina
Our travels from Savusavu, Fiji to Port Denarau Marina. (The Shark Dive will be it’s own separate Gallery)…..
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Leowa was our “go to gal” in Savusavu. She helped us get our Lau permit and was a very pleasant young lady.
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Can you just see yourself riding around with this guy?…:-)
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The best in the region…..
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Just liked the feel of it!
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Migration and a “Cat”….Savusavu Bay – Fiji
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This would be her last day as she decided to move on the next day
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Farewell and bisses Sandrine!
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Immediately next to Savusavu
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Grand Central Station and The Chimneys. Only 6 bungalows here.
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Anja likes to “point and shoot” and does a lovely job I might add.
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Lots of current too. Lots of “bommies” and very shallow.
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Vanua Levu in the background
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Former Leper Colony too!
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This is a former Leper Colony and now Government Research Station
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Cindy and I had visited a similar facility last year in Aitutaki – Cook Islands
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Ketselle on tour, with Scott
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This Island was the Pacific’s largest Leprosy Colony during the 20th Century.
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Locked in the GPS coordinates of six pinnacles…all very nice
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It really wasn’t bad at all!
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They’re brave!
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s/v “Casteele” on the left, s/v “Beach House” on the right. Makongdrona Island where we went diving is in the background
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Royal Suva Yacht Club docks. They have a separate dinghy dock where we tied up
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Maybe a hold over from WW2?
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We watch 1960′s Ed Sullivan re-runs and a Queen Concert on the big screen outside.
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Fortunately, Charlie let us tie up to his dock. The entrance was very narrow and only 5 feet deep at low tide!
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Peter’s birthday was the next day and Diana had arranged for all of us to do one of the world’s premier “Shark Dives” (See next gallery!)
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In only another hour!
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Priceless!
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New and old highways…..
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It was said only one diver need be sacrificed per trip……I was going to volunteer Anja….NOT!
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Only got one days dive, results are in the next gallery!
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They were getting ready to feed her to the sharks…..I saved her of course!…:-)))
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Diana & Anja at Peter’s Birthday Dinner….Anja made CHEESECAKE…YUM!
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It’s a might shallow here and we had to stay right between the “goal posts”….look close!
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Spinnaker pole out with the genoa, full main, 25 knots directly astern. We were doing 9-11 knots for several hours….Fast, flat and happy!
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No ticky, no washy…..
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No longer available. I’m literally waiting for this to be custom made here in Fiji or the machine goes to the scrap yard!
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Preamble to Mega Yachts…..Fun!
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About 165 feet…..plenty of math to do here.
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Guess? About 100,000,000.00 That’s not a mis-print. Operating budget Guess?….10,000,000.00 a year
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Mystery Ship is a lovely Nordhaven 65. Yep, she looks like the dinghy off “TV”. I thought “TV” was going to have a crane come out on deck and pick her up!…
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The Mega Yacht Dock here was well representative of the joys and toys of the very wealthy!
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Big she is! Welcome to “Hotel Row”…..:-)
