Yesterday in Taveuni we just took a day to relax and read our books. We were kinda done for now with snorkeling between here and Oneta, and had seen the main land-based attractions. The Moon guide suggested visiting Des Voeux Peak, which is where the red tagimoucia flower grows, but Robyn said she strongly recommended against it - the road up is in terrible shape and the crater is just a mud bowl. So we took her advice and just relaxed away the day. We did take a 20 minute bird-watching walk around the property in the morning. The kitchen had bought some fresh dog-tooth tuna (odd name, great taste) which most people including Heather had for dinner; I had the lamb curry again cause it was my favourite over the previous days.
We had plenty of time this morning to pack up and catch our flight at 12:20pm. The airport is just a 15 minute drive away, and we only needed to be there 30 minutes prior (it’s a small airport). Chatted with Robin and caught up on the news with the wifi at the main lodge.
We then spent the least amount of time ever between arriving at an airport and taking off. We arrived at the airport at 11:45am, just as the plane landed, inbound from Nadi. By 11:50am we had weighed our baggage and ourselves (they weigh the passengers here too for load balancing the plane). There were only eight passengers on the outbound flight to Nadi and we were all here so we boarded and took off by noon, just 15 minutes after we got to the airport! (I think it took us 15 minutes just to walk from the taxi drop-off to the checkin counter when we flew out of Pearson).
We had great views on the flight, me in seat 2A out the left with views of Taveuni, and Heather in 2C out the right with views of Somosomo Strait and Rainbow Reef.
We arrived at the domestic terminal in Nadi and walked over to international arrivals to grab a taxi. We decided to have lunch first as it was 1pm, so ate and then caught a taxi.
Most of the staff at the Doubletree remembered us (it’s our 3rd time through). We are getting our share of Hilton welcome cookies :)
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