Bekana Island and Bounty Island resorts
Anastasia
Phil May and Andrea Twigg
Sun 24 Jun 2012 10:50
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Last night we anchored off Lautoka, Fiji's second
largest town after Suva. We were hopeful that there would be a nice place
on nearby Bekana Island for a cocktail, but the resort has been closed for
several years. We still went ashore on the island to have a look
round. The place opened in 2003 and closed after only five years of
operation. The problem with this part of the coast of Fiji is that there
is a lot of organic run-off from the mainland and the water is quite green and
cloudy. There were just too many resorts nearby with whiter sand and
clearer water.
Today we are travelling down to Port Denerau, but
we probably can't get a mooring there until 4pm so we have made a detour to
Bounty Island resort for some lunch and snorkelling. Bounty Island is
far enough from the mainland to have blue water. The water around the
island is a bit deep for anchoring but I phoned ahead and booked lunch and they
said we could have one of their cruise ship moorings. The mooring
buoy is about the size of our tender.
The resort is quite basic, but it has a nice
beach with views back to the mainland and the food was good and reasonably
priced. The snorkelling was not up to the
standard of some of the places we have been but there were fish and coral and
fairly clear water, so overall it was a pleasant way to spend an
afternoon. We rounded off the afternoon with Bounty Uro cocktails, an
interesting variation on the coconut theme - gin, amaretto, coconut cream
and orange juice.
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