Hideaway Island

Had a bit of a later start to the day than intended but decided to bus out to Hideaway Island & Resort to spend the day. It’s also the location of the world’s only underwater post office!!

After finding a bus that was going to Mele, the nearby town, I got to the dock and took the free 2min boat ride over to the private island, getting there by 2pm. You can walk to this island at low tide, but the boat was free so I took it! To spend the day on the island, it costs 2000VT, and then rental of snorkel gear and fins, as well as two waterproof postcards was extra, so I ended up paying 4800VT (CA$58!) for the snorkel and 4.5h on the island

But I couldn’t go to the worlds only underwater post office and not send a post card! So I wrote one to dad and one to tams, as they’re some of the only people with permanent addresses rn lol. It’ll take about a month for the post cards to get to Canada apparently

I put on the snorkel gear and swam out to the post office, which is about 50m out from shore. I tried to film me putting them in the box, but I could swim that deep while holding my phone haha. But got them in, after a few attempts!

I then spent about 45mins snorkelling around the coral, not as nice as leleuvia but still some nice fish and coral (although this coral was definitely less healthy). Unfortunately some of my best photos of the reef have my finger in them as they were 0.5x.

Dried off and walked around the island, before finding a chair to read my book on while watching the sunset. I didn’t get a whole lot of reading done cause a French guy came and chatted with me. But he was nice haha. Him and his German wife are travelling for 8 months with their three young kids!

Finally I took the boat back around 6:30pm as it was getting quite dark by then! Managed to flag down a bus and rode it all the way to the airport, walking to my place from there.

I decided to switch up the spaghetti dinner for tonight and cooked up some rice, and topped it with fried spam and cheap soy sauce. Definitely one of the better tasting meals I’ve made on this trip hahaRead more