Beachcomber Island in the Mamanuca Islands

Almost at the halfway point now. Went to the Mamanuca islands this weekend. We hired a car than took a ferry, after a night in Nadi, to get to the islands on the other side of the main island Vita Levu. We stayed on Beachcomber Island and the diving was completely different. Nadi is the tourist hub of Fiji and it is completely different to Suva and the Lomoviti islands.
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Nadi and Denarau port are chalk and cheese compared with Suva. The shops are all geared up for tourists with money. Beachcomber Island is billed as a party island but thankfully we are out of season and I believe it's star has waned. Bamboo Travellers hostral in Nadi had more life. But with a 3 story apartment building being built slap bang next day, I suspect its days are also numbered. Amazing our taxi and ferry connections all worked out. You can fly to Nadi for 60 FJ but the flight back on Sunday is of course 200FJ. The car takes 3 and a half hours but you get there in the end. I went to a dodgy car hire company that completely met my expectations, but no worse than Hertz or Avis.
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The diving was run by the island next door called Treasure Island. Chris and Jasmine who ran it were excellent. Amazingly enough they are both GVI volunteers who interned in the Seychelles and met whist doing their dive master training in Thailand. Chris was really good at taking us out, he judged our air consumption depth perfectly so we had 4 1 hour dives surfacing with exactly 50 bar. We did 4 two tank dives over 2 days. really different dives than around Motoriki. Lots of sharks and turtles, but for me the highlight was a Yellow edge Lyre Tail, a Tuna and some long jaw Mackerels. Some amazing schools of snappers. some non target groupers and I think I have seen all the butterfly fish now.
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