Unfortunately the compressor broke last week, but our expedition leader Steve went to the capital, Suva, to get it fixed. It did mean that we couldn’t dive for a week which meant we had to come up with different ways to entertain ourselves. These included taking a walk up the hill to see the most amazing view ever, an inter Bure volleyball tournament and snorkelling trips. The less adventurous of us spent long afternoons at the sand spit, which is about a half hour walk from camp but well worth the journey.
As well as relaxing we caught up with our science training by going on many an educational snorkel. As soon as we were diving again we did our in water fish tests and cracked on with our size estimation skills. On Sunday the 15th we went to our local village Navatu where we spent a beautiful sunny day with our adoptive families. After lunch everyone headed up to the hammock to soak up the view and then dispersed again to have multiple plates of cake and cups tea and not forgetting the kava!
We have started spotting whales out in the passage but unfortunately none of them have been close enough to identify them but apparently its humpback season. As well as whales we have seen a lot of White Bellied Long Nosed Spinner Dolphins which love to play in front of our boat, Up and Under. We saw a pod of about thirty of them including a few babies which were SOOOO cute!!! They’re not the only babies on camp though as one of the camp dogs, Alice, has given birth to an adorable puppy which we have named Beru.
It has been very hot recently which is great for the sunbathers amongst us but not so good for our fresh water supply so we are al hoping for rain some time soon, which makes a change from being home in the UK! It’s got to the stage in the phase were people go a bit nuts and in keeping with this a number of people on camp have shaved their heads to varying degrees, including me... This Thursday A level results came out so we all waited nervously whilst people got their results but thankfully everyone got into Uni. Some of the staff went on a ration run on Thursday as well so we all got our post and packages which made us a bit homesick but also brought us good things such as BBQ sauce, Milka chocolate and Sudokus!
This Sunday we went to another local village, Raviravi. This was awesome as the village is lovely, plus they had FLUSHING TOILETS!!!!! This was a very welcome change from carrying buckets of water up the hill to the toilet :D The food was amazing and the villagers were really welcoming and we all had a really nice day and were very sad to leave.
Today, Monday 23rd August, was a sad day as three of our number left. We had a group photo on the beach and then waved them off with a few tears. None of us can quite believe that we have spent six weeks here already, it feels like just yesterday that we met each other at the airport looking very pale and quite tired as opposed to now when we are all very brown but still quite tired!
Anyways I’m off to be social so it’s goodnight from Nukubulavu camp!
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