Circumnavigation! (of Nanuya Levu)

Yesterday (Tuesday) we decided to walk around the island of Nanuya Levu at low tide with Jan & Dave (s/v Baraka). We were, in fact, only going to go halfway around. The walk on the beach was beautiful and it was windy so it wasn't too hot. We got 1/4 of the way around the island and came to a cut between Nanuya Levu and Turtle Island. Turtle Island is an exclusive resort and non-guests of the resort are efficiently chased away by security guards. Across the small stream of water that separated the two islands at low tide there were people playing volleyball on the beach and they had tables, chairs and umbrellas set up for lunch. We tried to be as inconspicuous as possible and started up the stream towards land on Nanuya Levu. The first few steps were in very mucky mud - so much so that my Keen sandal stuck in the mud when I tried to walk. I fished around in the muck and found it then we found better footing and headed around the island - with no trouble from the Turtle Island police - whew. We came around the corner onto a beautiful beach and saw buildings in the distance. We were told that there were other backpacker-type resorts on the island. Tom was in the lead and spoke to a woman on the beach and she led us up the hill to Lo's Tea House - a small "restaurant" in the middle of nowhere! Lo was in the kitchen taking a chocolate cake out of the oven - how fortuitous our timing! So, we had no choice but to force ourselves to stay for warm chocolate cake and tea. I also bought some of Lo's jewelry and Jan bought a beautiful Nautilus shell. We decided to continue on around the entire island instead of cutting across the middle. We ended our circumnavigation at the Nanuya Resort bar and celebrated with beers and munchies. Tough life, eh?

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[Barbara A. Gresham]

Somehow I think this Turtle Island is a little different than the one we camped on at Lake George, NY.