Hiking Koro Island

Hello All,
The last 2 days we have hiked the whole north coast of the Island, Yesterday we went to the village east of us and presented our Sevu Sevu to the chief. We got a little lost and hiked all the way up one of the hills that separates us from the village. It was suppose to be a 2 mile walk and I think we made it 3 or 4 the way we went, but it was good we got to see allot of the jungle. haha. When we got there we met the chief and then a few villagers showed us around. There are 200 people that live in the village and they told us there are 13 other villages around the Island.
In the last few years there has been some property that has been subdivided and so a few resorts and Private owners have been buying land and building vacation homes or moving here permanently. We met a guy today on one of our hikes to a resort about 3 miles from here. He is origanally from Australia but has been working as an airline pilot and now lives in Colorado. He bought a place here for a retirement home for him and his wife. He hired all of the men out of the village today to build a stone sea wall. We had a nice chat with him and the workers.
Fiji has been trying really hard to make some money for there country so more and more property has been privatly sold. Mel Gibson even owns and Island in the Lau Group.
We will head off for Savu Savu in the morning. It is a 30 mile trip due north so should be good for sailing.
On a side note, Since leaving New Zealand I have traveled 1200 miles and have burned 1 gallon of diesel fuel. Not bad huh, someone do the math on that and tell me how many miles to the gallon I am getting.
Thats all for now.


PEACE