Honeymoon Part 1 Matangi Island

Alrighty, I still don't have digital images from our disposable camera but I wanted to share some photos of Matangi Island. I think the honeymoon blogging may turn out to be a 4 part series.

We landed on Nadi at about 6 am & hung around the airport for a while. The airport had really good lattes anwd pastries called Lamingtons that where basically gigantic raspberry zingers. Then we got on a little plane that held about 12 passengers, it was really fun because there wasn’t a cockpit door so we could see straight down the runway as we landed. Here is a photo of a coral reef from the plane. We thought it looked like a bunny.


Here is the airport on Taveuni -


From the airport we took a car across Taveuni to this beach


From here we took a boat to Matangi Island

We were greeted with coconut drinks and moist towels and told “welcome home”. Kay showed us around and explained the food schedule. Basically when we hear the drums it’s time to eat. So we ditched our wallets, watches, phones & keys because they are all completely unnecessary on Matangi.


Here is our tree house, it has a wrap-around balcony, separate living room, and an outdoor shower. It looks a lot lower to the ground than it actually is in this photo. It was heaven.


There are three tree houses & 10 bures on the island, this is a bure.


And here is a photo of Don, look how relaxed he is.


Here is me up in the tree house


Matangi has lots of interesting animals. Here is a sea crab


And here is a land crab, this guy was huge! His body alone was about 6” across.


(Look away Nancy)
These frogs come out at night. These guys are very docile so we had to make sure to remember to bring a flashlight to dinner. They don’t move when someone walks by. There were a few frog fatalities by other guests who forgot there flashlights. Splat…


There are carved statues with torches lighting the pathways on Matangi, this guy reminded us of Beavis. Heh heh eh heh… Thankfully there wasn’t one that looked like Butthead.


Here is one of dogs on the island. All the dogs are very well behaved and friendly. I met this one on the beach while Don was getting a massage from Auntie Jemima. (If you make it to Matangi get the “Jemima Special” massage, it gets 5 out of 5 stars)

Back to the dog. This sweet girl and I hung out in a hammock for a while, then we shared some of the cookies that are left at our tree house everyday. After that we went snorkeling. Seriously, these dogs will follow you out into the water. Another one followed me & Don out the next day. Luckily they know when to turn around and go back to the beach.


Here is our outdoor shower. Someday I want an outdoor shower. It rocked.


This is a shot from our front door.


Here is Don & someone’s dinner


Next I will put together some photos of our day at the private beach & our trip to the local village. Hopefully I can post them in a couple days.