Other nights consisted of hermit crab racing (betting on a crab to win and win a prize), drag night competition when all the girls would lend their clothes and our large food bowls were used on a regular basis for big boobs. (Paul won the Miss Mana title twice - he was a pretty girl, with the big boobies), quiz night, traditional "Kava" drinking sessions, games and limbo comps...
Fijian night always involved a traditional "Kava" (drink made with water and squeezed Kava Root vegetable), it looked like muddy water and didn't taste much better. Two guests would be chosen to be Chief and his Wife and dress in traditional costume and sit at the head of the seated guests...everyone sat on a woven palm leaf mat. The Kava made your lips abit tingly and numb though. You drank it out of a half coconut shell. We did have our own Kava night when we bought some over from the mainland. After quite a few it did make you feel abit soporiphic.
On Fijian night they served food that had been cooked in a "lovo" (an underground oven with fire and hot rocks). The meal consisted of chicken, fish, spinach in coconut, Kasava & Taro(both root vegetables)and sausage. A really tasy meal although we always said we preferred fried or roasted Kasava, as the roots tasted very bland and fibrous.
Other meals consisted of lots of rice, sausages, veggie curries, stir fry veg, fruit, bread (tasted sweet). Breakfast was fruit (papau, melon, mango,banana), cake (banana, currant, chocolate), either cornflakes, weetbix, porridge, on occasions pancakes or doughnuts. After many weeks they amazed us with fish and chips and burger and chips.
After 4 weeks on an island with lots of rice we did start to crave certain food, so this was great. Boiled Kasava was often on the menu too...yuk!
We went island hopping twice, which allowed us to buy a few treats at one of the islands supermarkets (e.g. cheese and biscuits with piccalli)...On island hopping we went to some really nice resorts, had a cocktail and swam in some nice swimming pools and had a hot shower. OUr showers on Mana were cold.