SUNSHINE BEAUTIFUL BEACHES ROBINSON CRUSOE ISLAND

Finally, I have arrived on the sunny, beautiful West Coast of Fiji. The beaches are beautiful and the sky is----get this--NOT RAINING!!!!!!

I've pulled into a small bay which has a back-packers resort called Robinson Crusoe Island. The place is very nice and the owner/operator is very "Yachtie" friendly.

Tonight the theme was 'tribal night' so the kids all dressed up as best they thought Fijian should look and played games. It was all in good fun. Most of the people are from Australia and England. A few were from Scotland, Wales, Denmark, one lad claimed to be from Pitcarin island.

I thought travel would improve my appreciation for other cultures and people in our world---and I was right.

Too often we think of ourselves as the center of the universe. We cannot or will not see anything beyond our own neighborhood or country. Travel, especially travel where you are not herded about by tour directors and into and out of expensive hotels, has a way of broadening your prespective of how you and your country fit into this complex spaceship which we call "Earth".

The pictures are from Robinson Crusoe Island.