{"id":14827,"date":"2018-12-05T21:47:50","date_gmt":"2018-12-06T02:47:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/?p=14827"},"modified":"2018-12-23T21:49:34","modified_gmt":"2018-12-24T02:49:34","slug":"port-denarau-nadi-fiji","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/?p=14827","title":{"rendered":"Port Denarau, Nadi, Fiji"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wednesday – December 5, 2018<\/p>\n

Bula! Bula! \u00a0That\u2019s \u201cHello\u201d in Fijian.<\/p>\n

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The Amsterdam anchored off the village of Nadi on the island of Viti Levu, in the Republic of the Fiji Islands. \u00a0The ship\u2019s tender took us to the dock of the marina at Port Denarau. \u00a0The Fijian Dollar was worth only half of our American Dollars, so shopping was a good buy for us.<\/p>\n

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Denarau Island was a former mangrove swamp on the west side of Viti Levu, which is the largest island of 330 islands in the Fiji archipelago. \u00a0Denarau Island has become Fiji\u2019s five-star tourism enclave with seven international resorts, residential villas, and a championship golf course. \u00a0A tourist haven.<\/p>\n

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With 82 degree temperatures and 85% humidity, it sure didn\u2019t feel like Christmas! \u00a0The \u201ctree\u201d in my photo below was made of plastic Fiji water bottles. \u00a0(Yes, some Fijian men wear wrap-around skirts. \u00a0Much cooler than pants!)<\/p>\n

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Unfortunately, we didn\u2019t go off the island because transportation was limited. \u00a0We did a little shopping at the famous Jack\u2019s of Fiji and had lunch overlooking the bay. \u00a0We watched a couple of men fishing with nets from shore.<\/p>\n

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Huge clouds were gathering on the mountain across the harbor. I could smell the rain.<\/p>\n

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As the clouds moved across the bay, we decided to return to the ship.<\/p>\n

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The cloud formations over the water were fascinating and I couldn\u2019t stop myself from taking dramatic photos:<\/p>\n

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We got back to the ship just in time to watch a huge downpour of tropical rain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wednesday – December 5, 2018 Bula! Bula! \u00a0That\u2019s \u201cHello\u201d in Fijian. The Amsterdam anchored off the village of Nadi on the island of Viti Levu, in the Republic of the Fiji Islands. \u00a0The ship\u2019s tender took us to the dock of the marina at Port Denarau. \u00a0The Fijian Dollar was worth only half of our […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cruising","category-fiji"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14827"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14829,"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14827\/revisions\/14829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}