Fiji Islands-Rocky Mountain High
South Pacific Field Notes
Foreign LandsFiji Islands — Fee-Gee
Coming home to a place I’ve never been before. It’s Fee-Gee—Fiji.
You can’t get any further away before you start coming back.
John Denver visited this island today—“Sunshine on My Shoulders.”
Imagine sailing across the blue waters of the South Pacific, passing idyllic islands teeming with exotic fish and majestic coral reefs. Oh, wait—I don’t have to use my imagination, because what you see is what you get.
Field Note · Country Roads
OMG, I’m a Country Boy
The first image becomes the threshold: a familiar song, an unfamiliar island, and a landscape that makes the joke true.
Coming home to a place I’ve never been before. It’s Fee-Gee—Fiji.
The country-road soundtrack lands differently in the South Pacific. The island is foreign, but the feeling is immediate.
What you see is what you get. South Pacific field note
Navigation Note · Date Line
An Exquisite Garland of Islands
East of the International Date Line, welcome arrives as a word, a smile, and a bottle carrying the island’s name.
To the east of the International Date Line lies an exquisite garland of islands known as Fiji. Dignified, smiling people bid you “bula,” or welcome, to their unspoiled homeland and give you bottles of water called Fiji, bottled at the “source.”
Route Ledger · Fiji
Fiji Island Adventures
Five field-note titles preserved from the original post.
Suva
On Fiji Islands - Suva - PineApple ExpressDravuni
Fiji - Dravuni - Another Day Another Island - Escape To RealityBeachcomber Island
Fiji - Beachcomber Island - Freedom For SaleSavusavu
Fiji Islands - Savusavu - Cue The SunFiji vs. Voss
Fiji vs. Voss - I could drink a case of You Tap WaterMoving Image · Island Record
Fiji on Film
The original YouTube film retained in a stable, responsive Blogger-safe frame.
Archive Video
Fiji Islands — Fee-Gee
Image Archive · Take Two
Back to One
Two final images close the loop: rock star, country roads, and the recurring pull of home.
