Victoria and Johan's Maximoon: Going to Matamanoa Fiji!!

Getting to Fiji turned out being the longest day of our trip so far. Getting up at 9 at Byron Bay on Saturday the 23^rd, and arriving at our Beachfront Bure on Matamanoa island at 11:50 on Sunday the 24^th. In between there, we:

Drove from Byron Bay to Brisbane in the first good weather that we’d had in our 3 Byron Bay days
Met with Adam in Brisbane on the South Bank
Walked around shops for a little while, and killed time in a café (and me in an Arcade across the street)
Drove to the Airport
Dropped off the rental car
Found that THIS was the flight that we could only have one bag each on
Ditched the water we’d bought, as bringing it would cost 15 aussie dollars per litre…
Managed to get our overweight down to just 10kg, and then got help from a very helpful checkin girl who cut that in half for us so that we “only” had to pay 75 instead of 150 dollars for that.
Flew for 3 hours to Fiji (I slept, Victoria probably didn’t)
Got picked up, given our first set of shell necklaces, and shipped to a hotel for the 2 hour wait until the morning ferry, slept in the hotel lobby
Got driven to the port by a Fiji:an who seemed quite unhappy with his place in life, driving people around and earning 80 Fiji dollars / week
Took a Catamaran ferry out to Matamanoa Island, on sometimes choppy water, and then a small boat from the ferry onto the beach
Got our 2^nd pair of shell necklaces

Phew!!

Since then, it’s been raining and quite windy nonstop, so we’ve gotten our well needed rest and have hung out in our Beach Bure, nr 19 on the Sunset side of the island. The place is absolutely amazing, and like taken out of Castaway… WIIILSOOOOOON!