
The next thing after Rainbow Reef on Taveuni island was doing the sharkfeed on
Beqa (Pacific Harbour). So, we took a flight from Taveuni back to Viti Levu island (the main one), but this time not to Nadi (main city), but to Suva (the capital city), which was closer to the Pacific Harbour. We've arranged to stay in a new hotel Club Oceanus and booked to dive with the sharks on 2 days. There are two companies doing the sharkfeed - B.A.D. (Beqa Adventure Divers) and Aquatrek. They have split the week between them, so that if you want to dive 2 days in the row, you have to do it with both companies. Which turned out to be a very good thing actually. To keep us entertained for the rest of the day, we went to a
cultural and firewalking show. It's ok I guess - 8 guys heat up couple of bigger stones, do some ceremony and then walk on them.

Sharkfeed with Aquatrek. Neither I nor Kacka have ever done a sharkfeed, so we had no clue what to expect. Even getting on the boat was a bit shocking - they had two large garbage containers on the stern along with two bags. All of this full of pieces of fish and boy did it STINK. Plus it was covered with flies. The boat was just disgusting - I was trying not to touch anything. We drove about 20 minutes to the dive site, where 3 other boats were already waiting. Not much of a briefing, except for "go down, hold onto the rope" and off we went along with about 30 other divers. The feeder took down the big garbage container and started feeding. There were millions of fish just circling around him - trevallies, remoras, snappers... Then the sharks showed up - large grey nurse - but we didn't see them, because they were inside the huge swirling fish cloud. It was only when they finished feeding and we were leaving that we actually got a bit better view of them. We also spotted some reef sharks and one or two bullsharks. All in all - it wasn't quite what we expected.
Sharkfeed with B.A.D. They do essentially the same thing as Aquatrek, but the whole experience is much more pleasant. Boat is very clean despite the fact that they carry the same amount of feeding material. The number of divers is very limited (it was 6 of us), the breefing was very proffessional and the dive-site is better (different from the one Aquatrek is using). Also the feeding is much "cleaner" and you really get to see the sharks. We were lucky enough to get about 4 bullsharks to come and feed, lots of reefsharks, etc.
If you ever decide on coming over to do this, definitely do it with these guys.
Next we started moving along the coast towards Nadi and stopped at Sigatoga to spend the night. The plan was to go and see the
Kula Eco Park and also the sand-dunes there. It didn't exactly work out due to the weather - it was raining (not heavy, but enough to make it unpleasant), so we went only to the Kula eco park. It's surprisingly well run and fun. You get to see the local iguanas, lots of vegetation with descriptions, canopy walk, etc. Once done with it, we jumped on the bus to Nadi and went back to Wailoaloa beach.

For the final day, we've decided to FINALLY see the Fiji we know from posters. So far, we had maybe one half-day of sun, otherwise it was overcast or raining. So, we've booked a day-tour to one of the Mamanucas islands -
Treasure Island. To our surprise, it was sunny, the island did have white sand and coconut trees and they did serve good drinks too :) You can walk around the whole island in 5 minutes and all there's is the resort, but as a one day relaxation it was ok.
This concludes our Fiji experience. 10 days were quite enough and now we're off to Indonesia, starting at Bali.