Another late start to the day and a sleepy breakfast with more yellow eggs! To date we have found the eggs to be rather anaemic in colour in Africa and the Maldives and shelled eggs look lke boiled eggs without shells back home. It is nice to enjoy a bright yellow egg again!
We went walking off in search of a sports shop which we hoped would sell the Sunnto dive computer we sought. We started walking up a road parallel to the one we should have walked up which threw our memorisation of the streetmap out of the window! We asked a few people for directions to the road we required but no one seemed to be very sure of where it was despite it being a main road in the city and an obvious shopping centre! A surprising 2 hours 30 minutes later, by which time the sun was shining and burning Ian's head, we eventually found it but unfortunately the dive shop didn't have any Suunto Mosquitoes and had he had any he would have tried to charge us NZD 1,095 each! Still, he was interested in our travel itinerary... We told him how we now regretted not buying the dive computers at Hulhule for USD 260 and tried to think of a way we could get them sent to us if we bought them online.
After a filling pizzette and a huge slice of chocolate mud cake and ice-cream we began the walk back in to the city in the hunt for swimsuits appropriate for wearing under a wetsuit.
Later in the afternoon, we still hadn't booked accommodation for our first night in Tonga, it started raining so we went to check the prices for the Sky Tower summit and then slowly wandered back to the youth hostel for some kip, not having entered the cyber cafe all day. Our Korean host will probably be missing us by now!
Having had a 2 hour kip in the early evening I struggled for an hour to get to sleep...
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