We are not near the resort and spa but i see their boats come into this anchorage and drop off tourists (white as!) to see the villages. I’m sure it is a great vacation for them…tho I am a bit spoiled with how Guava travels and is accepted by the locals. Kids paddle out in homemade rafts or old discarded plastic kayaks. Broken and cracked they still float and must be very valuable in regards to their coastal lifestyle. The Kids, teens and twenty-somethings come to Guava throughout the day to visit, laugh, bring gifts of bananas, sugarcane and pawpaw (papaya). They leave with hats, t-shirts, fishing hooks, magazines, etc. Last evening Sam, Masa and Veejan came to Guava and said…get your stuff, we are going free diving…ok..i jumped in and we took their longboat around the corner outside the bay for an adventure.
Night diving…middle of nowhere with teenagers in charge of the mission…some fun. Very eerie experience with the dark night (no moon) and the remoteness of the area with only a couple of lights visible on the distant shore of the neighboring island Taveuni. The boys were hunting food with homemade spears and tattered masks. I outfitted one of the locals with my spare mask, fins and snorkel. After an hour of swimming among amazing varieties of corals, the creepy orange eyes of baby lobsters ogling me, sea snakes and all the other usual suspects present on the reef I look for the boat. I hadn’t seen anyone in about a half hour only occasionally spotting the flashlights in the boat in the distance. As the last one in before the long, dark return to the anchorage their was a funny silence in the boat. Only later after talking with Dave fro Riada did he tell me that the boys were quickly out of the water because they saw and very big shark. Nice…
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