New best day so far.
And not just because this is the first blog entry written by me (Chris) but also and mainly because of where we went. For the first time the picture we have to accompany the blog post is actually the place we went! (though others have shown pictures of Nadi, those haven't been the bits we went to)
I should start off by saying how the day started. We woke up and said goodbye to the two German girls staying in our room. We spent parts of the last two nights talking to them and got to know them pretty well. After, we had a frantic, against the clock search for my money belt but found it in the end. And quickly got the bus to the port where a rather unimpressive dingy of a boat picked us up (well definately unimpressive compared to the galleon of a ship we had on the other cruise) and after about half an hour of waiting for the boat to 'set sail' we 'cruised' through an amazon-like river with trees that bowed down to the very edge of the river as if all the other trees were forcing their way through just to get some space to breathe.
After a half-hour boat trip, we arrived on Robinson Crusoe island (as pictured) where we were given a briefing on what was going on in the day. First off was snorkelling, which Tom did (i didn't on account of having a disastrously burnt back) meanwhile i sat in the shade, relaxed for a minute and then thought i'd go on a wander and hope noone thought i'd drowned or something (they didn't). On my walk i found a beach that seemed like it was 'secret' but it was about 2 minutes walk away from where i was sitting. There i stood on a jellyfish and found a colony of crabs and a rather phallic like tree (photos soon).
Tom's snorkelling extravaganza didnt't quite compare to the one a couple of days ago. Whilst adjusting his goggles, he managed to drop his breathing tube down onto the ocean floor, luckily one of the snorkel instructors dived in after his breathing stick-thing. Though he didn't see hardly as many fish and didn't get to pick up a starfish he says it was still pretty awesome and all in all it was a longer dive.
Our main guide for the day was the fijian version of Mos Def, and he treated us to yet another coconut demonstration, though this time he climbed the tree, like a monkey.
Lunch today was a buffet (free food!), prepared under a mound of sand and coconut leaves on a grill - fijian barbeque style. After it had been uncovered, we were given a demonstrationof fire-walking by three crazy fijians on the hot coals. Just like that.
During our buffet (free!) we watched many different tribal dances, from the men and women. They did a combination of war and hula dances, which were really entertaining. For their next dances, they juggled knives and sticks of fire. RIDICULOUSLY QUICK. It was amazing. Tom got some great videos.

Then we were all given numbers (mine was 8, go figure) which would be the number of our crab in the crab race! a circle in the sand was outlined and the first three crabs that reached the outside of the circle won. The winners got necklaces and flowers. Sadly neither of our crabs won. I didn't even see my crab (i have a feeling it might of been one of the three dead ones).

We left the island to a traditional Fijian farewell song and got on the boat. Then we went back to the skylodge (our hostel) to get stuff sorted for New Zealand. Two days time!