Fiji is about 1700 miles from Papua New Guinea and Australia's coast
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Our dive sites aboard the Fiji Aggressor II
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My birding sites visiting Fiji
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Coral coast of Viti Levu Island
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Viti Levu
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Sugar Cane
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Our Dive Boat Fiji Aggressor II
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Dave Ruth Kathy Laura Michael Jennifer Rebecca John Kim Bill Pat Steve Angie Ceci
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Ofa (Captain) Deo (Chef) Bee (Instructor) Charles (Chief Engineer) Lelei (Steward)
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Near Suva Viti Levu
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Top Deck
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Lounge, Bar and Dinning area
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Anchored for diving
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Michael Packer
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Islands and dive sites visited
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Take me diving
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Raise and lower water taxi
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Quick Ride
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And a quick diver's leap
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Paradise
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Magenta Slender Anthias, Scalefin Anthias and a few damsels
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Acropora Hyacinthus - Table Coral
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Hyacinthus coral, Magenta Slendar Anthias and a Coral Grouper
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Coral Grouper
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Squarespot Anthias on the move
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Squarespot Anthias with fins spread out
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Fridman's Dottyback and Blackbar Damsel
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Jewel Damsel
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Looking down the jaws of a Jewel Damsel
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Jewel Damsel Attack Movie!
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Speckled Damsel
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Bicolor Chromis center others unknown
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Bicolor Chromis fish around red Soft Coral, Sea Fan, and Verrucosa hard coral
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Indo-Pacific Sergeants
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Princess Damsel
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Humpnose Bigeye Bream
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Threadfin Butterflyfish
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Threadfin Butterflyfish - Teardrop tail in background
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Racoon Butterflyfish
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Pacific Double-saddle Butterflyfish
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Redfin Butterflyfish
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Vagabond Butterflyfish
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Regal Anglefish, Klien's Butterflyfish, and Moon Wrasse
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Dot-and-Dash Butterflyfish
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Saddled Butterflyfish
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Bicolor Angelfish and Cleaner Wrasse
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Palette Surgeonfish
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Pacific Sailfin Tang
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Bignose Unicornfish and Golden Damsel
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Spotted Unicornfish
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Spotted Unicornfish - close-up
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Steve Weisgerber
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Dave at a cave
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Kathy
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Checkerboard Wrasse IP
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Jansen's Wrasse
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Red Breasted Wrasse
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Unknown Wrasse about 50cm
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Longnose Filefish
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Longnose Hawkfish - Photo credit Ceci
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Surfacing
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Michael Mid-deck
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Kim out of water
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Beautiful Lelei
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Between dives
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Sunning after dive
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Reef colored waters
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Red Footed Booby
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Red Footed Booby Dark Phase
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Wakaya Island
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Steve at Camera Bench
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Dive Brief
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Jim's Alley Dive Site
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Michael Taking Photos
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unknown maybe pseudoceros imitatus Polyclad Flatworm
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Phillidia sp Nudibranch
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Chelidonura varians Nudibranch
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Unknown
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Partrige Tun
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Giant Clam
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Network pipefish
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Christmas Tree Worms
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Christmas Tree Movie
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Two Clark's Anemonefish
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Clark's Anemonefish IM or Yellow Variation
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Red and Black Anemonefish
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3 Gold Domino Damsel with Pink Anemone
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Arc-eye Hawkfish
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Hard Coral Safty (unknown blue fish pos - stocky tilefish)_2
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Hard Coral Safty (unknown blue fish pos - stocky tilefish)_1
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Spieces unknown
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Fiji Blue Devil Damsel
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Fiji Blue Devil Damsel - side view
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Fire Dartfish and Fiji Blue Devil Damsel
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Ring-tailed Cardinalfish
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Reef Hanging
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Surface
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Michael and Bob
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Dive Break
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Island Anchor
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Packer drinking Fiji beer and wearing the traditional sulus
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Pilot Whales
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Pilot Whales - there were probably half dozen or more
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In synch
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Island afternoon
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Fiji in late afternoon
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Dinner on the grill
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Kava root ceremony- traditional drink and common social activity
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Kathy Steve Ruth Jenifer Michael John Rebecca Bill Kim Bob Laura Ceci Pat Angie
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Soft and hard corals
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Sea Fan
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Brain Coral
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Sunray Lettuce Coral
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Sea Star
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Feather Star (not a plant)
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Feather Star
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Trumpetfish
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Leaf Scorpionfish - Taenianotus triacanthus - Yellow form
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Banded Sea Snake
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Freckled Hawkfish
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Doublebar Goatfish
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Blackspot Snapper
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Yellowmask Surgeonfish
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Titan Triggerfish
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Bullethead Parrotfish
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Bicolor Parrotfish
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Blackstreak Surgeonfish
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Crecent Wrasse
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Black-Spotted Pufferfish or Seal-faced Pufferfish
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Black-saddled Toby
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Porcupinefish
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Redtooth Triggerfish
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Bigeye Trevally
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Bigeye Trevally take 2
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Blue and Yellow Fusilier
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Also Called Blue and Gold Fusilier
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Malabar Grouper with Bluestripe Snappers
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Blacktip Shark
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Blacktip Shark with Bluestreak Fusiliers
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Shark Feed Movie!
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Diver Kim
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All dressed up with someplace to go
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Island visit
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Xena greets us
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Litia
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Walk to Nawaikama Village
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Fiji Boys doing the Hello
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Nawaikama Women
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Prepping Dinner for the Lovo (Fiji underground oven)
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Dinner on the lovo rocks
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Cooking and smoking a lovo fiest
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Michael and Nawaikama View
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Nawaikama View
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Nawaikama people
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Nawaikama Song Movie
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Kava root ceremony Movie- Kava has been prescribed as an effective folk remedy for anxiety, insomnia and back pain
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Dinner's Ready Movie Clip
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Our last meal of dive trip was easily the best. The smokey smells of roasted chicken and vegitables were unforgetable - not for people who grew up on KFC or McDonalds
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Bula - on to Highlands of Suva - Raintree Lodge and Coli-I-Suva Park
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Raintree Lodge Room
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Raintree view
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Cane Toad - invasive species - intensely damaging
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Common Mynah - invasive specie - photo credit - Dave Lucas
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Red-vented Bulbul - photo credit - Dave Lucas
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Collared Kingfisher - Thanks to Tom Tarrant
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Colo - I -Suva Park, Suva Fiji
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Main acess trail, Colo - I -Suva
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Collared Lory - has Blue head on Kadavu
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Orange-breasted Myzomela or Orange-breasted Honeyeater - Thanks Matalevu
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Fijian Parrot Finch
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Lower Falls
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Trail Lookout
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Save our Oceans - Air Fiji or Tonga Airlines
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Kadavu Island bay near Vunisea
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Kadavu Airport
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My kind of weclome sign
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Kadavu Endemics, Parrot, Whitling Dove, Fantail and Honeyeater
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40 minute ride to Matava Resort
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Matave Driveway Movie
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Lion Rock in Great Astrolabe Reef - Matava Resort around the bend
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Matava
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Traditional thatched Fijian bures - this one's mine
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Inside the bure
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Bure - On the water virew
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Jack of all trades
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Ta on left, head cook on right - Kadava beauty in middle and it's not me.
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Matava DM and Linda (moved from NZ)
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George and Michael
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Michael and Malaki
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Malaki's Land
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Vanikoro Broadbill - photo credit - Dave Lucas
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Kadavu Shining Parrot
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Kadavu Shining Parrot - Thanks to Tom Tarrant
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Polynesian Triller
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Rain Forest through way
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Forest before the tree
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Whistling Dove
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On top of Kadavu Island
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Fiji Goshawk - in Flight
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Fiji Goshawk - photo credit - Dave Lucas
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Spider found in Kava Fields
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Malaki Alfa George Michael
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Pacific Black Duck with duckling
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Black-naped Tern
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Fiji Sunset
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Orange Dove - Endemic to Fiji. Vanua Levu, Taveuni - Thanks
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Michael Packer, End Fiji photo Journal
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