Woke up at 6 to get my 7am transfer to the port. As I was in a rush I just slammed in everything haphazard like and scoffed down my breakfast like crazy. Unfortunately it turned out the bus was running on Fiji-time, so it didn't get to us till 7.20. Met up with Amie and Rachelle after their crazy card rental trip to the coral coast. After some portside faffing with my tickets, we got on the catamaran and began our 3 hour journey past islands of idyllic beauty. 
Some were so tiny you could walk around them in 5/10 minutes. Others had towering rocks and craziness associated with them. During the ride we mostly burnt, burnt like the very bonfires of hell. Which became our discomfort for the next few days. As we were approaching our island, grey storm clouds gathered and vast quantities of water descended heavily down on us. As soon as we checked in and signed all our rights away, the rain ended.We then had a briefing about all things island related and then had a chat with a dive dude and signed more of our rights away. We were then slightly shocked to find out our first dive was to be after lunch! Lunch was a nice buffet style meal and we chatted to two girls that were on the same boat as us.
Welsh Jo is doing an advanced diving course and German Stephani is the only other person on the course. Our first dive just introduced us to the basics of diving and a few skills like regulator removal and buoyancy control (and equalising). Water is amazingly clear, fish and coral are beautiful and full of amazing colours. We went to 7 metres for 37 minutes. All seems not too hard, Matt, the instructor, is quite a chilled our Aussie who speaks a lot like Owen Wilson. Afterwards I had a little Kayak around the bay.
Dinner was buffet style and afterwards we had a few crazy cocktails/beers and chatted with a welsh couple, Alex and Julie, about everything from travelling to football. It was then I discovered Man U beat Arsenal 4-0... sucks. They told us of a time when a group of irate Columbians took over an airport and all the staff ran away!
