Boarding lounge
The benches at the open air boarding lounge at the airport are well-worn by the comings and goings of visitors to the island.
If you’re not up to the hour and half flight over from the international airport at Nadi, the only other way to get to Taveuni is via ferry. We were told that the crossing takes between 18 and 30 hours, which is kind of a wide range, and cuts significantly into a vacation. The plane’s looking like a better option, isn’t it?
Matei Airport
Taveuni Island, Fiji
photographed 7.6.2013
Posted on July 13, 2013, in Photography and tagged 365 photo project, black and white photography, matei airport, melinda green harvey, one day one image, photo a day, photography, taveuni island, taveuni island fiji. Bookmark the permalink. 15 Comments.
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I like the shading in this. It’s perfect for B&W conversion.
18-30 hours? Nothing like a tight schedule.
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I know! I used to work in the public transit business, and our schedules were to the minute, so a half-day difference is impossible for me to understand!
I liked the way the worn wood showed up in b&w – it was barely noticeable in color.
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😀
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I am thinking that those 30 hour crossings must be hell on water – typhoons, driving rain of the sort that scours skin down to bone, mountainous seas, flying sharks landing in your bunk, albatrosses tangling around necks and copious, chronic exhausting cascades of vomit.
So yes, the plane’s looking the better option. Even if the seats are akin to these benches.
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Your description of the crossing read like a horror movie!
And reading “copious, chronic, exhausting cascades of vomit” very nearly made me ill.
The seats on the plane were a little better than these benches: they were padded.
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Well, if a normal cross is 12 or 18 hours, then a 30 hour crossing must be a horror show. Stands to reason. Unless the ferry has a bad engine and is known to break down and drift while the engineer rebuilds it. But that is a horror show too. Drifting sideways to the swell….
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“Sideways to the swell” reminds me of my only trip to Victoria, when we took the ferry to Port Angeles and were sideways to the swell for most of the trip. That copious vomit you mentioned earlier? Nearly had it.
(No albatrosses, though, Thankfully.)
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The MV Coho! Antique but venerable vessel. Soon to featured in my blog. She is always sideways to the swell on that run. My trip across a week ago is probably what prompted my musings on the 30 hour trip.
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When you feature the ferry, will you have any reference at all to albatrosses and/or Coleridge?
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No such reference planned. Albatrosses are pretty rare around here (though they are common in the archaeological sites, so must have been common prior to incursion of modern times). Coleridges are even less common. Rime is more frequent though, in winter.
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Mariners? ANCIENT mariners??
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Riming ones, if they can be found
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(I may have to give up on this topic. It’s starting to feel like Mrs. Pinkston’s 9th grade English class.)
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Good, I was rather hoping it would run into the ground 🙂
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