Saturday, January 11, 2025

10 January 2025 Fiji: Dancing with Fire!

 


After breakfast I took a little hike down the railroad tracks, no new birds, but I got an offer for some free lunch.  The offer came from three workers sitting in the shade of a large tree.  I was looking at a flycatcher and a bulbul when they offered me lunch and told me to sit with them.  I declined and headed back to the room to enjoy the lunch that we made for ourselves at the breakfast buffet.   After lunch we headed back out to the north point and attempted to renew our vows on camera.  It took several tries until we got it right.  Either I was saying phrases that were Leslie's lines to say or I was saying then too humorously and she would crack up laughing.  It was getting hot as the breeze we had the day before was absent.  We took the Bula Bus back and cooled off a bit before the fire show.  We had dinner right next to where they were having the fire show so we got good seats.  Great entertainment.


A heron flying by


The mangroves at the end of my walk time for a Senior Survivor Challenge


A rickety railroad trestle 


A bamboo disaster


I made ti to another lagoon


Horton hears a hoo!


The lone mangrove


Looking back at the bungalows with kayaker


Plover over there


The trail is petering out, makes a strong man weak in his sole


An abandoned guard shack


Throwing crumbs off of our balcony


Pipe fish says thanks




If crumbs work, a big heel of bread works better


The Fiji flag.  I miss my flag collection


A sculpture or a fern?


Senior Survivor Hammock Challenge


Speedy boats


An Island in the distance and a large boat


An outtake from the vows



Purple blue flowers


A Western Wattled Honeyeater eating honey


We jump on the Bula bus


Cooling off and showering we see a white faced heron escaping a swooping incident 


A weavers nest


Lighting the ceremonial fires


It is a long day already


Soon to be full


Practice makes perfect


Each of the performers dropped their baton during the show


We just had dinner at this restaurant


Still too light for a fireshow


Dancing before the fire show starts


It is still pretty light out


A couple of easy dances to start


The fire dancing begins


Getting dark enough to light the torches


Two types of fire, balls of fire on strings and the fiery batons


Fire everywhere!


They whole group join in


Very entertaining


While others were still spinning the batons and balls of fire a huge ball was lit


These flames were 20 feet tall


Wear a hair net for this trick


And than it was all over


Except for the fine sunset


Smooch worthy


Last night in Fiji



It has been 2 years and 219 days since we began our Migration