Days 4 and 5, Likuliku Resort

Sandy and Peyton (niece of dogsitter) beating the heat at dogsitter's house

 

Day 4

Weather: Same-same exceot a little hotter

What happened:

• Have breakfast, Grape Nuts (brought from home) and fruit for THB. DB returns to pancakes
• Snorkel around Honeymoon Island, another awesome outing. More varieties of coral and 20-30 varieties of fish on top of Castaways Island. A longer and harder snorkel than yesterday and thus we don't have energy for another excurison or even snorkeling out front.
• Lunch has one great dish: Chocolate Dome with ice cream on the side. Outstanding!! (at dinner we request an encore for lunch tomorrow)
• Pre-dinner drinks in upstairs bar
• Dinner
• beddie-bye

Pics for Day 4

LB snorkeling in front of resort before breakfast

last few hundred yards are a real slog in shallow water

lst

somehow THB filled bottom of pic with beige / grey...how?

Couple from St Louis and guide climb to top of the island

Greeting when we return to resort

Fiji Vonu not as good as Bitters

Day 5

Weather: Same-same and a bit hotter

What happened:

• Have breakfast, Grape Nuts for THB and smoked salmon for DB. We got to breakfast a 7am, leave at 7:35 and nobody had come into the dining area by the time we left. There are 90+ staying here, not another early riser!
• THB, DB, and LB  and an Aussie from Melbourne go on morning snorkel to Pinacle, around 20-25 minutes from resort on a very fastr boat. Drift along a reef among tens of thousands of small fish (maybe more; DJT rounded up to a million). New to us: a black sting ray, school of trumpetfish, a boxfish and a smattering of the fish we've already seen before. Much of the coral (the reason given for this site) appearsbland and washed out.
• Have lunch, which includes another Chocolate Dome (see pics)
• A short afternoon snorkel, leaves at 3 though we were told to be there and ready at 2:15, this time at Mushroom reef. Depth of coral and fish made it a bit more challenging to spot things, THB spots a shark, good thing DB didn't know what it was.
• Exhaustion setting in, LB doesn't make it to dinner and THB and DB debayed...in meantime it was past 5 and we lost chance to have pizza at the pool.
• Dinner: small tin of caviar and blini, semi-fried seafood platter with very messy batter. Had to be eaten with hands. Finber bowl and the usual chilled hand towels help immensely with the cleanup. Another chocolate dessert: excellent though only in second place behind the Dome.
• It is a clear night and THB sits outside watching the stars. The mosquitoes watched THB up close and personal. 
• beddie-bye

Pics for Day 5

THB, DB, and LB are the only threesome at resort and staff has figured it out: we know which table is ours. Staff has also figured out LB is vegetarian and her dishes now come as such without asking.

High Tide

Low tide

the resort is constantly shuffliing boats around

resort around corner, bad lighting for this pic and boat is going 40knots/mile

Chocolate Dome

Tanker unloading fuel for resorts

Trunks of Likuliku: THB was embarrassed by last post's dearth of pics. Not sure this counts as a substitue, it was the best THB could do on short notice.