As you descend down into the majestic blue deep, you realize you’re travelling along a great lavender wall. Going along the wall, you can even get your nails manicured by a light sunset-colored cleaner shrimp. The Great White Wall in Taveuni, Fiji is one of the best dives in the world because it is a great technical dive. During the last ice age, the oceans around...
I, Tanner Croddy, went to four movie sets so far this trip. The first movie set was on Castaway Island in Fiji, where the movie Castaway, starring Tom Hanks, was filmed. The second movie set was the Hobbiton, in Matamata, New Zealand, where The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings were filmed. The third was in Halong Bay, Vietnam where King Kong, Skull Island and the...
A step into a simpler time, an easygoing local culture as welcoming as the lushness of this tropical rain forest and as welcoming as the captivating beauty of the liquid blue sea. This is Taveuni, Fiji. We take flight in a small deHavilland propeller plane from the town of Nadi. We fly across the craggy green and golden mountains, dark rivers and small villages of...
I’ve always felt lucky if we can find some small experience that gives us a sense of the spirit of the places we visit. Mostly it’s a challenge. When we left Taveuni, we stopped off at Treasure Island in the Mamanuca Islands for a couple days, an overpriced generic island resort overrun by vacationers with small kids, which was a perfect place for Kimberly to...