Snorkelling and fishing trip. Awesome.

Woke up this morning and Bobo had hired his friend’s boat to take us out for the day snorkelling and fishing. Although it was heavy rain when we awoke, as soon as we were ready it was fantastic weather for the whole day, so we were very lucky. To get to the boat we walked for about 15 minutes to the beach through a local village greeted by loads of friendly smiles and happy faces.

The boat took us out for about 20 minutes before we all jumped in to cool off in the Fijian waters. We snorkelled for about an hour seeing some beautiful fish and corals before swimming up to the sand bar and climbing back in the boat.

We then continued on to another spot a lot deeper to throw in a couple of hand lines to try and catch some dinner. Chris was just like a fish himself and continued to snorkel and both him and Bobo saw a few sharks.

The hand-lines didn’t prove very successful, well Andy managed to catch 2 fish, and I even caught one, but I was so excited and was busy showing everyone dangling it over the water, and the fish, cleverer than myself just jumped straight off the line and back into the water. Very stupid mistake.

Bobo and his friends who were also on the boat had a lot better luck swimming and spearing fish which thankfully meant that we had 4 smallish fish for our late lunch. After a few hours out at sea we came back at around 3pm all pretty knackered and had a nice cool of in the river before showering and gladly returning back to our balcony.

Chris and Andy managed to find some energy from somewhere and soon disappeared again with the snorkels to attempt and fail to find some freshwater prawns whilst Abbe and I stayed behind, read books for a while and soon fell fast asleep for a couple of hours.

The boys returned as I woke back up having hiked in mud and wading through the river and under the bridge through a pipe for hours. We then ate some quick dinner before meeting up again with Bobo at the main house to drink a load of cava and chatted for hours before finally retiring to bed for a much-needed sleep.

Snorkelling and fishing trip. Awesome.

Rukuruku, Fiji