Bart Bear's Blog

Scruff and I are lazing around on the sundeck of "Reef Escape" while the Oldies are off exploring Levuka. Levuka is the old capital of Fiji and is on the island of Ovalau. The town was founded by European traders in the 1830s and was the first permanent European settlement in the Pacific islands. We spent a day here and the Oldies had fun looking at all the old buildings. The oldest pub in the Pacific is here and Dad really wanted to have a beer there, but the pub was closed. There is also a church that works like a lighthouse. It has lights and channel markers on it and they can be seen from outside the reef. The capital was moved to Suva on the big island of Viti Levu in 1871, because Levuka is surrounded by steep hills and has no room to expand. I liked Levuka.

Labels: Captain Cook, cruising, Fiji, lighthouse