In New Zealand at the moment but I've got a lot to catch up on so I'm gonna finish Fiji before i start on New Zealand, safe to say its incredible and Henrys already been growled at by a seal.


Ahhhhhhhhh i'd forgot to write about an important part of Coral View.......Hot missionary girl and her husband......Basically we started talking to her about inconsequential stuff blah blah blah until it came out that she was a missionary. She was actually a really nice person, was a nurse and had been to Papua New Guinea and such places to help as best she can. But Henry couldnt help but home in on what he believed were gaping holes in what she was saying (he was very drunk and remembers very little) basically he spent an hour trying to pick holes in her arguments about whether what she did was good or bad. Safe to say Henry failed miserably in the debate, After Henry tagged out and went off with the girls to get his nails painted (true) I started talking to her, about the possibility of there being a god, I just couldn't see how it was more likely that there was an all powerful being than the possibility of our world occuring completely by chance, and she couldnt see how it was possible that the worlds could occur by chance without there being a divine being (or something). The argument only ended when the drums for dinner were played.

And so on with Manta Ray, I'm having to refer to my journal for this as it was a very long time ago. Manta Ray was one of the more expensive places we went to in our time at Fiji. However it was easily the best place to be. First of all we got our own bure right on the beachfront next to the bar, for free as they had no more space in the dorms.lovely. Also we saw regis again as hew was on Manta Ray snorkellling a lot of the time, the snorkelling at Manta Ray was amazing, there were supposed to be reef sharks but we didnt see any, it was good mostly because it has always been a marine reserve so noone has ever fished near there, also in season lots of manta rays swim there hence the name. The kayaks were free there, which meant we could get to the beach on the other side of the channel very easily, I tried to stand up a lot but it was very very wavy that day so it was even more unsteady than standing up in a single with only one blade in. The food at this place was awesome as well, we got to order off the menu for lunch and tea, either that or there was a buffet on. That night they had locals from the nearby village come down, all the local, men were hench as, and did spear dances and axe dances and other dances that I can't remember, I went to bed pretty early around 11.30, Henry stayed up longer and i later found out payed a game in hammocks where they have to swing it until they fall out, he got a very large graise on his leg from said activity. We didn't do very much in the morning apart from read and swim until the boat came at around 2.30 to take us to beachcomber the 'party island'. I would definitely recommend Manta Ray as the best resort to go to in Fiji. Especially for people our age and although it costs more its easily worth it.
Byeeeeee