The men in Fiji all wear a skirt as part of their normal dress and so schoolchildren whether boys or girls all go to school in a skirt like this one worn by one of the doormen at the hotel. The Fiji name for it is a sulu. Formal dress is the sulu , with jacket and tie.
They also often wear a flower behind one of their ears, behind the right ear means single or available and behind the left ear means taken....
A lazy day around the hotel and on the beach today before we travel again tomorrow afternoon, a little breezy so not quite such good snorkelling as earlier in the week but still a good variety of shapes and sizes of fish about. We shared our lunch table with this mynah bird which seemed very interested in the contents of our plates - but stayed at a safe distance.
Fiji has been a pleasant surprise and having taken total pot-luck on a hotel we have been delighted with it - good facilities but with the ability to get out and about as well. It turns out incidentally that Fiji does have a High Commissioner after all - Mac Maclachlan - no prizes for guessing his country of origin! He says on his website that he is committed to encouraging democracy - so being kicked out of the Commonwealth is obviously a complex process....
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