Back at the home after a 30-minute walk back from the Denarau marina, on red carpets laid out exclusively for us by the fiery royal poincianas, we had kind of reconciled to the bad weather brought in by TD04...
A lamp shade in the lobby shaped like a nest...
Walking around the property, we toyed with the idea of having an early dinner or playing Uno, Scrabble or Rummy...
Oh dear, we forgot our deck of cards back home...
And here we are at the hotel shop, buying the playing cards...
The winds are fierce and the palms are swaying wildly...
Islands like these will face the brunt of climate change. Fiji already faced the brunt of Cyclone Winston in February this year causing massive devastation. Scientists do claim that the frequency of such storms will only increase with increasing temperatures and rising sea levels. And there is a horrendous possibility that island states like Kiribati will be completely wiped off the map of the world...
The rain stopped a bit, but the wind was too strong...
Buddha in Fiji!
The poolside...
Fijian men in their sulus...
A sulu is a type of kilt traditionally worn by Fijian men and women in Fiji and is regarded as national dress. It is basically a wraparound and is traditionally fastened by tying at the waist.
Women's casual sulus are amazingly colourful and are known as sulu-i-ra, and more elegant full-length ones for dressy occasions are called sulu jaba.
Men's sulus are known as sulu vakataga. Men's sulus, these days, may be fastened with buckles. Tailored sulus with pockets are commonly worn as part of Fijian men's business and formal wear, with shirt and sandals and optionally western-style jacket and tie. The sulu is seen as an expression of ethnic Fijian identity. While wearing a sulu is often mandatory for Fijians in traditional settings, members of other ethnicities are sometimes discouraged from wearing it...
A speedboat...
The wind doesn't seem to stop...
Settling down for dinner - that's what the "doctor" order for this cold rainy evening - a steaming hot tomato basil soup...
Seafood pasta...
And some vegetarian pasta...
And we have snorkeling on our plan tomorrow, we can only pray for a sunny day...
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