Mana - The magical island

It took us about 45 minutes to get to the island on the "Mana Flyer", a small boat on which they squeezed about 13 guests and 3 crew, and I don't want to know how many bags and supplies for the island. We passed a few small islands on our way and the level of excitement of the passengers rose with every white beach we saw. Mana island actually looks like two from far away because it is really flat in the middle. As we got closer and the vision became clearer I had to fight the urge to jump out of the back of the boat because I couldn't wait to get into that Water.
There are two Resorts and another small luxury Honeymoon Resort which is still in the building progress on the island next to three Backpackers.
Therefore you can visit the island with every type of budget... we had the smallest.
Our Backpacker was the one furthest down the main beach and run by a nice group of Fijians, mostly our age, and we really liked them. They warmly welcomed us with a traditional song and came up to us one by one and introduced themselves with handshakes and big smiles. The rooms were alright at first sight but we didn't stay in there for too long because our first swim was desperately required.
The rest of the day we did what we would end up doing for the next  six days:
relax, enjoy the three included and very nice meals, sunbath, swim, snorkel, sleep, read, wander around and talk to people making new friends and enjoying their company.
Sharing this experience of spending moments in one of the most beautiful places on the planet together was great and we met a lot of very interesting people over there.
It's amazing how lazy you can get with this weather and environment around you...how the time and the days are just passing by and you completely loose track on what day it is and how long you have been there for.
The staff was cool and very friendly and they seemed more like travel mates than like attendants and made our stay there very nice.
Unfortunately we had to change rooms on the first night because of bedbugs but it was a minor thing because Bekki found them before they could get into our stuff and we didn't have any problems with them after that.

The days passed by without too much happening. The food times and the nightly Kava session were the only regularities for us but you couldn't always be sure about them either because they as well were on Fiji time which meant that breakfast was in the morning, lunch around noon and dinner in the evening but you could never be sure about the times. It is hard to remember what we did on which day because in my memory the whole week is a blur of a really good time but it definitely lacks the detail.
Bekki had the great idea to post a lot of pictures of each day and to write only a little bit about what we did because the pictures are a lot more impressive than a few words.

This is day one. We chilled at our hostel after lunch and acclimatised ourselves to the beautiful vibe on the island. I went for a short walk while Bekki took a nap in the sun, before we both walked to the other side of the island to watch the sunset.

We stayed at the main beach in the early afternoon because it was too hot to go anywhere else. Later that day we walked to sunset beach to meet two German girls and watch the sunset. The beach was beautiful and no one else was around so we went for a swim and enjoyed the late afternoon with our friends.

We thought we should put at least one pic in here that hasn't got anything to do with sand and water.

Locals playing a game of Rugby on the airstrip. The kids there haven't got much to do so they do a lot of sports and become really good. A am really surprised, that Fiji doesn't dominate the Volleyball world because everyone there plays so well.

This is the lagoon on the south side of the island. Our Backpacker is on the other side of the bay.