NABUKERU VILLAGE IN THE YASAWA GROUP OF ISLANDS, FIJI.

20TH MAY, 2013

We didn't catch any Tuna despite going through the shoal twice in circles.  Fishing has not been over successful yet......One small Tuna, enough for fillets and some sushi for all six of us since arriving in Fiji.   Jonathan and Sam are just about to go out in the dingy to try to catch some snapper. 

  

Yachting is not always the luxury one imagines it to be.  Most days are a project day which if you are like Jonathan you just get on with it.  So he has been sorting out our shower pump which was refusing to drain and the forward heads which was producing a rather unpleasant smell.  The Fridge has decided not go back down to the setting we have set it at after being defrosted and is a little too warm, things are just about hanging on in there but having bought food for 6 of us for ten days it is a tad frustrating.  Did a big cook up of chicken last night so we have had a big Green Chicken Curry.   The lettuce in the fridge did not last,  so for lunch it was white beans mixed with chopped up tomatoes, red peppers and spring onions and ham with a lime, sweet chilli, soy sauce dressing it was good although I think I put in a little too much garlic so we are all chewing clean teeth/breath gum ..... we ate it with Turkish bread which was in the freezer.

We visited the village of Nabukeru which is where the cousin of an old Fijian friend of Charles Mortimer's lives, so we were invited to the village.  We arrived with our Kava root, plus lots of other things including crayons for the school.  We presented the Kava to the Mayor as the Village head was out diving for Lobster, which they sell to a hotel further down the island chain.  The village also owns the Coral island pictured below which has underwater caves, they are coral uprisings from the sea.  I'm afraid I did not dive under to get into the inner cave, I have never felt comfortable with things like pot holing and going into spaces which are dark and difficult to get out of.  The village we discovered has a lot of help from a Rotory Club in New Zealand who sent them money for food when the village crops were destroyed in the hurricane last December.  They are remote and the only way in and out is via boat.  The older children go to and live on the main island to go to school, but the village has a small school for primary children.  The ladies of the village make and sell shell necklaces and trinkets for the tourists.

Some of the coral off the small beach we visited was good with amazing fish but lots of it was dead most probably due to the hurricane.

The weather has changed this evening with more wind, closer atmosphere and maybe a thunderstorm.  We plan to head back to Denarua as David and Jenny fly out on Thursday and we have to see if we can get a fridge guy in to sort the fridge out.