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| I want to fly this! |
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| coral islands |
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| Safe ashore |
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| What a welcome |
The distances between the islands is very large and although we are not going to the most remote ones it is still a 5 hour boat trip to Nacula island, one of The Yasawa Islands to the north of Viti Levu. We decide to go by sea plane! The islands are too small to have airports so it is the only alternative to a boat. Our sea plane was very small, only holding 4 passengers, and we got into it whilst it was on land. The big floats under the wings have runners, not wheels, which means it can be pushed from the beach into the water by a tractor! The runway is the sea and it has to be quite calm for the plane to get enough speed for lift off. Once in the air it is only half an hour over islands and coral reefs to Nacula. The plane lands just off the beach and a boat comes out to meet us. There is no jetty so the boat runs up the beach and islanders come to help us out and carry our luggage ashore. We have to roll up our trousers and get our feet wet. We are staying in a bure, a thatched hut on the beach, made from local materials like leaves and small tree trunks. There is a welcoming ceremony with the islanders singing and offering us drinks.
The distances between the islands is very large and although we are not going to the most remote ones it is still a 5 hour boat trip to Nacula island, one of The Yasawa Islands to the north of Viti Levu. We decide to go by sea plane! The islands are too small to have airports so it is the only alternative to a boat. Our sea plane was very small, only holding 4 passengers, and we got into it whilst it was on land. The big floats under the wings have runners, not wheels, which means it can be pushed from the beach into the water by a tractor! The runway is the sea and it has to be quite calm for the plane to get enough speed for lift off. Once in the air it is only half an hour over islands and coral reefs to Nacula. The plane lands just off the beach and a boat comes out to meet us. There is no jetty so the boat runs up the beach and islanders come to help us out and carry our luggage ashore. We have to roll up our trousers and get our feet wet. We are staying in a bure, a thatched hut on the beach, made from local materials like leaves and small tree trunks. There is a welcoming ceremony with the islanders singing and offering us drinks.
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