Today was our last full day in Fiji. We started out by deciding last minute to do a complimentary shore dive. At Matangi, if you do 3 days of diving, you get unlimited shore dives. On this particular dive, we saw a lion fish! 2 actually! Holy cow! Those are deadly. We also saw more trumpetfish which apparently are rare, a cushion starfish, a finger like starfish that we got to pick up, and even an eagle spotted manta ray! We didn’t think this last dive would be anything special.
After diving, went did the island tour. We got to visit a village and drink kava with its people and chief! The people were so sweet and had prepared tea for us. We bought a palm fan from them. This particular village was where Sala and Tom grew up. We learned today from the people that the average age of marriage in Fijian villages is 21 and the marriages are arranged by the parents. Once you’re married, the lady moves to the man’s village.
We also met a lady named Elizabeth who is Sala’s sister in law, and she’s also related to Bibi the bartender back at Matangi. We met her 4 children Charlie, Corina, Odel, and Debbie. They gave us pretty shells they found on the beach. Aaron and I had nothing to give them except some shells we had found and dead aaa batteries. However, we did see another child in the village throw a D sized battery at a chicken, so we figured these kids would like their own batteries. Charlie loved his, running around with it. Hopefully he doesn’t crack it open and get mercury poisoning!
For dinner, we had our candlelight dinner on the dock. Very romantic. It was really nice that we got our private dinner on our last night here. Today was very well spent.
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