Our second island visit in Fiji was to Matamanoa Island, another beautiful spot to spend a few days.

We had better luck with the sunsets here as you can circle the island pretty quickly on foot.

We took a short excursion to check out the location for some of the filming on the Castaway film starring Tom Hanks.

It’s an uninhabited island but we did get to meet Wilson, even if ‘he’ did travel in our tour guide’s rucksack for the trip!

Guess it is safer for him there than being left on the island.

Below is the cave he was filmed in, at low tide we could only see it from the beach.

It’s a pretty island, with snorkelling available from the beach.

The shots below were from Matamanoa Island, we are starting to get the hang of our underwater camera.

Our visits to these Fijian islands have been fabulous. The people have been so warm and the locations idyllic.

We are now sat in Nadi airport dealing with a flight delay and a missed onward connection.

It’s not always plain sailing this travel malarkey but then we did choose to fly on Friday 13th!

In theory we stay over in Auckland tonight leave on the 14th and arrive midday on the 13th! Grappling with the international date line is melting my mind!

Hopefully the next post will be from French Polynesia and the never ending Friday 13th will finally pass…