Pics - cruise through Fiji - above and below water
Kokamo's Pacifc Meanderings
Tom and Rachel
Wed 14 Jul 2010 10:40
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Pics from the last 10 days
in Fiji, as we made our way East to West:
 Some great corals off
Nameena Island
 The remains of the
projection room in the 'first cinema in the Pacifc' - once part of the leper
colony on Makongai Island we wrote about in an earlier blog
 The remains of the some
of the (tiny) rooms the thousands of 'patients' lived in.
 One of the island's
current inhabitants - temporarily in a tank as part of the Ministry of
Fisheries' tagging scheme
 But their main work is
breeding giant clams from impressive specimens like these
 Yep, they are
giant...
 And can
be incredibly beautiful close up
 Inoke, one of the guys
at the research centre, and his family (hand gestures apparently have
different meanings in the South Pacific...)
 Inoke teaching Rach how
to scrape out a coconut to make coconut cream
 "C'mon Rach,
it really aint that hard!"
 Our walk to the
otherside of the island ended up in taking the school photo
 Some more spectacular
coral off Naingani Island
 Including lots of
different soft corals - the first time we'd seen them in any number
 The South Pacific is
full of lobotomised whales...
 Coral with their
colourful polyps showing (or I think that is what they are?!). Waving your
hand in front of them causes such surprise they hastily disappear
into their holes.
 And finally, thinking
of Molly and Marve on their big day, wishing we were
there.
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