A World of Change

The drive to Natadola is long and Koko's is a new place for refreshments, they even sell Vonu, but we had a coffee and the boys had a strawberry smoothie that looked like it was made with strawberries and not artificial colour. We made it to the airport with 5 minutes to spare to pick up Chris, and the to the Intercontinental in time to see the dancing and have Indian Dinner.

Next morning what a surprise. Our pre-breakfast walk to the beach showed the changes the bad weather and floods had brought. Lots more sand on the beach in front of the hotel, but worse, its now impossible to walk the long beach to the point, Lucky I had walked to the point last time I was there as now its impossible unless you want to swim

In 1983 the mouth of the river opened up and closed again after six months, so Nature has repeated the first act, the shoreline totally changed, sand dunes and trees gone and even the road the locals used, all swept into the ocean, silting up the coral and leaving lots of debris on the beach on either side

Now there is a flowing river, with sandy banks and deep drops into the water, changing the best beach in Fiji, hopefully not permanently if Nature does a second act.

But something hasn't changed, the view where the pool meets the sea at high tide and further to the horizon.