After 4 days at the Beach House it was time to move on to Suva (the Capital). We decided to stay at this place we'd heard about called Raintree Lodge.
We got there and boy was it humid! We were staying in a bunk room but soon found it was very quiet at the Lodge. Beside a 110 feet deep murky lake (which has a friendly Eel and you can go swimming in but like hell was I going to) and next to the Colo-I-Suva Rainforest, we soon found out what this all meant...Mozzies. Yes The Mosquito had became my enemy back in Cape Tribulation in Australia and though we'd been united a little on the islands after sunset that was soon to be no comparison. In one night I got 40 bites across my legs. Now it may have partially my fault for not being on an adequate enough of insect repellent but it's also their fault for existing! 
Each night I acquired more and more bites that became huge red itchy blotches that everybody tells you not to scratch but find yourself doing it in your sleep. It rained for the first two days at Raintree so we decided to take a trip in to Suva (did some more haggling) and then it got sunnier and so we took a trip into the rainforest next day...very humid, lots of spider webs but nice waterfalls! In the evenings we chatted with an old lady called Helena a Kiwi who lives on one of the very remote islands: Vanua Balava (near both of Arnold Swartzenegger's and Mel Gibson's Islands) and a couple of some pagan hippies that were really nice and who were going off to work for Helena.
We got there and boy was it humid! We were staying in a bunk room but soon found it was very quiet at the Lodge. Beside a 110 feet deep murky lake (which has a friendly Eel and you can go swimming in but like hell was I going to) and next to the Colo-I-Suva Rainforest, we soon found out what this all meant...Mozzies. Yes The Mosquito had became my enemy back in Cape Tribulation in Australia and though we'd been united a little on the islands after sunset that was soon to be no comparison. In one night I got 40 bites across my legs. Now it may have partially my fault for not being on an adequate enough of insect repellent but it's also their fault for existing! Each night I acquired more and more bites that became huge red itchy blotches that everybody tells you not to scratch but find yourself doing it in your sleep. It rained for the first two days at Raintree so we decided to take a trip in to Suva (did some more haggling) and then it got sunnier and so we took a trip into the rainforest next day...very humid, lots of spider webs but nice waterfalls! In the evenings we chatted with an old lady called Helena a Kiwi who lives on one of the very remote islands: Vanua Balava (near both of Arnold Swartzenegger's and Mel Gibson's Islands) and a couple of some pagan hippies that were really nice and who were going off to work for Helena.
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