Random thoughts from the sea
Day 20, South Pacific, Australia and New Zealand Cruise Saturday, Oct. 22, 2022; Dravuni Island, Fiji, North Pacific Ocean. I have Covid. In my mind I wrote all sorts of clever ways to lead up to this news, but decided to follow my reporter training and just put it out
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Day 19, South Pacific, Australia and New Zealand Cruise Friday, Oct. 21, 2022; Suva, Fiji, North Pacific Ocean. A challenge of being one of the first cruise ships in the South Pacific after almost three years of pandemic shutdown is that things don’t always go as planned. Originally, the MS
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Day 67, Grand Asia 2018 Thursday, Dec. 6, 2018, Suva, Fiji: After the South Pacific beaches and resorts of our last few ports, we are back in a city. Suva is the capital of Fiji, and our berth is on an industrial pier where giant forklifts move containers all day
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Day 66, Grand Asia 2018 Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2018, Port Denarau, Fiji: I kept wandering through the same dozen shops, looking for the Fijian hot sauce I had seen an hour or so earlier. Of course, I never found it. A friend and I tendered ashore to Port Denarau and
Continue readingDay 66, Grand Asia 2017 Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2017 – Suva, Fiji Suva, Fiji’s capital, was hot and humid when I disembarked to explore the city. One of my immediate stops was the city market only a block from the pier. Venders filled tables with limes, bananas, garlic, tomatoes, large
Continue readingDay 65, Grand Asia 2017 Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2017 – Lautoka, Fiji The actor Raymond Burr has left Fiji with a beautiful heritage, the Garden of the Sleeping Giant. My tour started here and it was the highlight of our visit to the port of Lautoka on the west side
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