Jill is up early and goes for a walk up the steep hill and right around the rocks. Photos of sea slugs and crabs.
Shower and then off to breakfast, usual fare. Back to the room and finish packing our bags and then we read. Jill cashed in some money to buy a table cloth and bracelets and found out our transfer pickup is now 12:15pm, not 1:00pm as advised on the phone yesterday.
No swimming today (don’t want to travel with wet togs).
We check out at 11:00am and pay our residual bill of $60 FJD. Not too bad.
At 12:05pm the bus turns up, just after Jill has headed back to video the Sundance by the pool. On the bus, then a few other pickups and we arrive at the airport around 2:30pm. It’s a slow check -in due to baggage belt not working and then through security and immigration before we reach the international terminal. We have some Burger King and a last Fiji Bitter before waiting for the flight. It’s supposed to leave at 4:55pm, but as we get closer to boarding time, they announce it is late arriving.
We do eventually leave about 5:30pm and head off towards Melbourne. Jill reads, I watch a couple of movies on my phone (Bullet Train and How to please a woman). We get in about 10:15pm, so a little late, get our duty free alcohol then pass through immigration and to the baggage carousel. My bag doesn’t take too long then we wait for Jill’s bag. It takes another 15 minutes or so. We make it through Customes, battle through the thronging crowd waiting outside and ring for the car park bus pickup. Another 15 minute wait and we eventually make it to the car and start to head home around 11:15pm.
Roadworks and 40kph on parts of the freeway. We stop at Officer and get a coffee and snack and then back on the road. Get home at about 1:30am.
Unpack the car, then Jill makes her bed and eventually we are off to sleep around 2:00am. A long day with a few different delays. I’ll be up early for work from home at 8am today (Friday 1/12/2022)