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Behold!

This is a video post. Video posts are like your everyday blog posts, but with actual moving pictures and sound! Granted they won’t appear as often as normal text based posts, but Fiji is full of enough delightful strange things that should hopefully keep video output content to a steady 1 a month. Maybe 2 video posts if I’m lucky.

Our first video post is about a little known ‘hill’ that is well known to many of the Suva people. Mt Korobaba. After being offered a ‘tour’ up by an avid exerciser friend of mine, I decided that both the chance to see the top of the mountain, as well as the prospect of shooting something for the blog was too good an opportunity to pass up.

So, against my better judgement and totally unhealthy physique (with portly stomach) I went huffing and puffing up the mountain with a few friends, a very delightful Canon 5D, and an utter lack of drinking water. Let this be an important lesson for any of you eager to go there yourself: 1 2.5 Litre bottle of water is not enough for one person. Take two bottles. TRUST ME. Nearly had a mini-survivor moment going on there on my way back down when the water finished.

Aside from my severe misjudgement of water rations, I also decided to go barefoot. That’s right folks. I went pato. Up the bloody mountain. Though to be honest, it’s the best way to go up. Because the path is so slippery, you can feel where your feet goes, sure footing that beats having canvas any day. You can file that under personal preference anyways.

So go ahead, give the video a watch. If you’ve got any ideas of what you’d like to see documented next, let us know in the comments.

And yes, the timing of the call from the wife was the real thing, no jokes. I couldn’t have asked for a better ending >_<