Bula Vinaka and aloha from the island of Beqa. Linda Kwasny is the former owner of Lalati Resort and one of the board members of the Loloma Foundation. Lalati still maintains a small clinic here (with Air Conditioning no less!) and we are cleaning that up and checking medication expiry dates. Later today we'll start seeing some of the staff and then full on tomorrow with the surrounding villages.
Cyclone Gene is thankfully on the way out! I have a few blog entries and photos waiting on my computer (I am using Lalati's Mac right now with a Satellite uplink) and will post those when I can. All flights in and out of Fiji are canceled at this writing and getting over here yesterday was an exercise in carefully controlled violence and great seamanship on the part of our crew. I have been in some rough seas before in Fiji but as Linda said to me, on a scale of 0 - 10 with 10 the worst and unpassable, this was an 8! Yes sireee baby, it was an E-ticket ride. At the end, near shore I just jumped and swam in since I was completely soaked anyway.
The resort is on twin diesel generators anyway so we have power and all of that. The mainland is flooded with no power so there you have it. Roads are flooded and not much is moving. Lots of cyclone parties over there I bet?
I am not even sure at this point if I will be able to visit my friend Sai's (living in Santa Rosa) village Rukua here on Beqa. The trail over may be impassable and the sea is a joke - just too dangerous.
That is about it for now kids. Special bula and aloha to my family, hugs to all.
Thanks for reading the continuing adventures of yours truly.
David
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