And got some amazing views of the Fijian islands!
After our long boat ride, we arrived at Barefoot Island, where we would be the only people on the island for 2 nights and 3 days! We were staying huts, called "bures," with no electricity and very little running water on the island. Standing in the center of the island, there are beaches on either side of you, appropriately called sunrise and sunset beach, depending on the side of the island.
This was the view from the inside of my hut...
After we got settled in, we began our first "Survivor" game. Our teams were each given some bamboo and rope, and we had to figure out how to make rafts out of the bamboo and race our boats. (My team's raft won!)
We finished up just in time to enjoy a beautiful Fijian sunset. In the distance you can see our boat...
After dinner in the main bure, our night concluded with a kava ceremony, where everyone had to try a bowl of kava.
At night the Fijian men who were running our tour invited me to hang around the main bure and play guitar with them. I had about 10 or 15 bowls of kava with them, and started to feel like I was back on the boat! I found out once I got home that kava is actually a mild tranquilizer that has an effect not unlike marijuana. I guess that explains why I slept so well in Fiji with no air-conditioning and wild animals running around just outside my door and open windows!While sleeping at night in the bure, I heard a rustling around in the bag of Doritos on my nightstand. I quickly grabbed my flashlight from under my mosquito net to find a lizard scurrying out of my Dorito bag and out through the bottom of my hut door!
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