Uluru, Sydney and Fiji - Feb-March

I've celebrated my birthday in many places but none as remote as at the base of Uluru, Chris had asked our tour guide to organise a cake as a surprise and we lit the candles and sang happy birthday in English and Danish. That wasn't the end of my birthday, we flew to Sydney and had dinner at Bhodi,









Next day we flew back to Nadi, and drove to Suva. This a view of Suva from the Harbour, the close up look it different, but there is some good and not so good shopping and a good coffee if you search (we make the best at home).









I'm crossing off how many of the 350 islands I get to see. We went for a day cruise to Nikalau Island, check Wiki for its history. I walked around the island, possible with my water shoes and everyone had a swim. In the afternoon a storm formed over Suva and the sky was black, black, lucky it had passed before we left to return home but we knew it had rained heavily as our sun roof in the car had been left a slightly open,


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Suva is noted for its rain, and of course the old saying Red Sky in the morning is a sailors warning, I think I saw two mornings that the sun came up bright and shiny. Still the rain is good, and it doesn't take long to dry off if you get caught in a shower.








Butterflies are supposed to be signs of spirits watching over you and I was pleased to photograph this one when I decided to take swimming lessons, I've always hated getting my face wet, (a left over from living at Taylors Arm where the boys loved pushing you underwater if you couldn't swim well) so have achieved that milestone. Really need to get my skills up for snorkeling and river rafting.