It was pouring today and really chilly so we hired a car and escaped the resort to have a bit of an exploration day. This is a picture of the main map of Fiji, which other than in the main cities there really is not many more roads to the map. Just passed Sigatoka Nathan and I argued about which way to go as the map only shows the road around the state and there was one of the few roads that aren't on the map as an option. After paying me out for not being able to read a map we pulled over and I jumped out to take some photos of the waves crashing while Nathan read the map. Turns out he can't read it either!
We found 'Fiji time' really applies to road trips, with one man saying Suva is three hours drive away, another saying two. It turns out it also applies to kilometre's, as the rental man told Nathan it was 300 km's when it would be about 200 we think. We didn't end up venturing past pacific harbour as we stopped for a long lunch and to do some shopping and with the road signs telling us it was a different distance almost every time we didn't want to risk returning the car late. As it turned out we almost didn't get it back in time. Back to the distance thing... one sign said 85k's to Suva, the next about 100m down the road said 83 then the next 850km's, and no it wasn't graffiti.
The drive was pretty, and would be so much nicer on a sunny day, but we did manage to stay fairly amused as so many men where carrying around machetes. Yes giant knives, its harvesting season and it seems that when the men are done for the day, they wander back into town with the knives in hand. It was an unusual sight, especially when some of the men looked downright scary!
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