[osagebowman]

We were there in '87; same time they had their bloodless coup; interesting when you think about it, the immigrant Indians won the general election and native Fijians said, hey just a darn minute, it's our country.

We were coming back from a tour of Eastern Australia and New Zealand and the Australian Tourist Commission told us about the coup and offered Hawaii instead of Fiji, several of us said we were not likely to get to Fiji again so we went, not many tourists and outside of a few extra soldiers at the airport, it was a very pleasant time, and Fijians were very glad to see us.

[ecurbh]

Yeah, its an interesting ethnic mix there. There's the native Fijians, and the Indians were originally brought in to work the plantations. We were housed by the Fijians themselves, and the best part of the trip was just getting to visit with them in their homes. They even treated us to a native feast... lots of fresh fish and seafood, including roasted sea slug (which I wasn't brave enough to try).

I didn't get time to take many pictures, but most of the ones I did get turned out pretty good!