...May 30 - beautiful
June 1 on - pic 4
Very disappointing as you can how beautiful it can be in May 30 photo. Squalls came through where, from the whiteout, you couldn't see the beach from the spot the pics are taken. The back of the house had a nice deck but since it was so windy you couldn't get up out of the weather either. Storms made raging torrents out of streams so you couldn't really hike anywhere. So it was always inside. After a couple days, leaks started in the house where we had to push all the furniture to one side. After day four of rain, leaks were bad and most things were wet and didn't dry because of the humid air. With no TV or radio, which I definitely liked when renting the house, we ran out of things to pass the time and, importantly, no weather forecast. I got sick in the middle of this. Visited a third world hospital in the middle of the night, the taxi driving through frogs all over the road during storm.
The trip from hell for us. I expected tropical rain but it was a solid week of heavy storms. We got in little diving. We did get some good stuff but just a taste. Day we had to leave it was beautiful again. Then we took a sailboat for another week in the Mamanucca Islands north of Viti Levu. There it was beautiful day 1 then slowly again turned rainy for the rest of the trip, though not nearly as severe. That part of the trip, aside from the weather, has my highest recommedation. Awesome experience to have the luxury of your own sailboat and crew and hook up with resorts to dive some good spots. Living on a sailboat with your own captain and chef can be a pretty cool experience. A 10 day trip with them could take you some real places and places on your own.
I learned a few hundred things on that trip. First, is that it rains in Fiji. Anywhere in Fiji. That's why I suggested the distributed risk method if you could. Next was bring a radio.