On Saturday, 7/21/18, I came down with a serious URI and Thierry Work found that a Brazilian student he was going to work with was coming in to HNL 1 week early. Since I was sick and couldn't dive and Thierry had to head home, we both canceled the Shark Dive and went to work trying to change our flight to make our way home as soon as possible. We were able to get a seat on the Sunday flight which leaves Nadi at 1710 and arrives in HNL at 0130 or so... a direct 6.5 hour flight which is much better than the 9.5 hour flight down to Fiji which goes through Apia, Samoa. Pat was able to rearrange my Hawaiian airlines flights although I got it all wrong because of the date change and she had to do the whole thing twice!!!
So, we got up early on Sunday and went downtown in Suva to have breakfast Suva is nearly 200 Km from Nadi where all flight for HNL originate so we had to make our way to Nadi. There is a bus that takes nearly 3 hours, a taxi that will cost about 150 FJD or a van shuttle. The van shuttle looked really good until they arrived at our hotel and we found the thing jammed full of locals. We forced our way in and we're basically sitting on our luggage and stuffed into a very tight seating arrangement for 3.5 hours. Needless to point out, we will not take that particular route again!!!
We finally made it to the Nadi Airport about 3 hours before our flight. We got checked in and the rest went pretty smoothly.
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| Suva on a Sunday morning... everyone goes to church. |
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| The cathedral right behind our hotel ... lots of beautiful singing. |
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| Our one and only rest stop at Shigatoa. |
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| Our van in the back ground, the little stand with snacks to the right. Whenever we had to get out of the van, we had to unpack the luggage. |
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| The, not to clean, restrooms cost .5 FJD |
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| I think we all bought a bag of potato chips as a snack. |
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| Our van, into which was stuffed as many as 14 people and luggage. It also made a lot of stops dropping off people and picking others up. |
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