October 14 - Snorkel Split Rock, Coral Sun, Island Grill

October 14 (Day 3 – Snorkel Split Rock, Coral Sun, Island Grill): Up at about 5:45. Had breakfast: cereal, toast, papaya, bananas. Headed down to our beach at about 8:40 to swim and snorkel at split rock. The beach is beautiful! Easy entry. We swam up to split rock... really beautiful. Rod and I were out about 1.5 hours... Jim and Pam about 45 minutes. After warming up and drying off, we headed out towards the Coral Sun which used to be Kontiki where we did our Peace Corps training. This is also the direction to go for our swim and snorkel trip on Wednesday. It was a very interesting drive. There is relatively little development, which is good! Not even many villages. We found our launch spot for Tomorrow. On the way back, we stopped at the Coral Sun. It is really built up! They closed off the lagoon where we snorkeled in training period there are buries built out over the water! Had a rest, then went to dinner at the Island Grill. Great!

Rod’s Thoughts: The Island Grill was my favorite place to eat, at least in Savusavu and possibly the entire trip. There was a point where I thought it would be good to stay at The Coral Sun because we stayed there almost 50 years ago during our Peace Corps training. Then, it was called The Kontiki. I am so very happy we didn’t stay there. It was sad to see that the beautiful coral reef had been devastated and a fake lagoon had been constructed. It made me sad. Split Rock is a great place to snorkel. There isn’t an actual split rock, that I could determine, anyway. But the coral and seal life was wonderful, and possibly one of my top ten snorkeling sites of all time (at the time of this writing).