Fiji Cruise

I'm growing sick of the months of grayness and now that summer is only a few months away I'm getting itchy to start being outside and I've been finding myself fantasizing about tropical islands thousands of miles away from this rainy state.

DREAM ADVENTURE NUMBER 18: Tui Tai Cruise in Fiji



"You'll spend most of your time wet on a Tui Tai cruise. From snorkeling to sea kayaking, there's hardly a water sport you can't do from the deck of the 140-foot (43-meter) boat, called the Tui Tai. Back onboard, hit the spa or watch paradise glide by from the floor-to-ceiling window of your cabin or from one of the on-deck lounges. Four luxe staterooms have iPod docking stations and queen-size beds; the other eight rooms are slightly more modest and have double beds."
*National Geographic 



This cruise would be one of the most luxurious getaways of my life... but every fucking thing is included in the price; every drink, any activity you wanna do, even diving lessons, every meal, spa treatments, massage done to the sound of a cascading watefall, a morning yoga class on the top deck, kayaking in a volcanic carter... I bet that week would be some of the most fun and easy-going 7 days of my life. It's really expensive for a cruise, at $3,900 per person for the cheapest double bed room, certified scuba classes, PADI diving courses, plus tourism tax but it must be a fucking amazing experience. 5 nights runs you about $3,200. Not doing the scuba and PADI course will save you between 800 to 1,000 bucks. Those are just the regular cruises. Now I am not even going to get started with the honeymoon resort packages of 5 days on the Tui Tai and 5 days at an amazing resort in Fiji... http://www.tuitai.com/honeymoon_packages.php



Each cruies only has 22 guests and 18 staff members. Tui Tai is the only luxury-adventure ship operating in the Pacific Cultural Triangle, providing guests a remarkable look at three distinct cultures that history and circumstance have put together within a nearby triangle of islands. In addition to visiting islands where indigenous Fijians live, Tui Tai sails to islands where Polynesians and Micronesians were relocated after World War II, and where the villagers live in their historically natural ways. Only the Pacific Cultural Triangle offers adventurers a chance to experience such strikingly different cultures and histories during a one-week visit.

Check out their website and fall in love... http://www.tuitai.com



Ahhhhh all these bright beautiful pictures uplifted my spirits.

Great Barrier Reef

I'm a 20 year old with big dreams. Unfortunately I am not a millionaire and don't have the money to go out and do everything I dream of doing but I believe a healthy dose of daydreaming about these great adventures, that one day, I may be able to partake in will help keep my sanity of my mundane life.

To start off, I dream about visiting the most beautiful, in my opinion, World Heritage Site.

DREAM ADVENTURE NUMBER 1: go diving in the Great Barrier Reef



The Great Barrier Reef is the world's largest reef system composed of about 3,000 individual reefs and 900 islands stretching over 1,600 miles. The reef is located in the Coral sea, off the coast of Queensland in north-east Australia. The reef can be seen from outer space and it the world's biggest single structure made by living organisms. This reef supports a wide diversity of life, and was selected as a World Heritage Site in 1981.

Wiki has a great ecology section about the Great Barrier Reef as well that talks about all the species of life that are found there.




 It's late and I'm a little too sleepy to type up what I've been looking at but I've looked up classes you can take a couple places that do dive tours or teach you how:

divethereef.com has a great collection of local dive places in Australia
and
Diving Cairns



Goodnight now. I know I'll have some pretty sweet dreams after looking at all these beautiful pictures.