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This is a photo of the harbor at the island of Malolo Leilei, home of the fabled Musket Cove Resort.  Escapade is moored just about in the center of the photo.  Two weeks earlier we were in Suva when there was a military coup.  Long story, but we had been shopping in town when there was a huge demonstration by the indigenous Fijians, protesting the Prime Minister who was of Indian descent.  The Indians have been on Fiji for 150 years since the British brought them in to cut sugar cane and the natives resent them because they're so successful.  We decided to get back to the boat.  It turned out that while we were in town a gang of Fijians went into Parliament and took all the Indians out at gunpoint.  They held them hostage for 6 weeks.  All we knew was that there were fires in town which we could see from our boat.  It wasn't until we went ashore that evening that we found out that the Fijians had looted all the Indian stores in Suva and burned many of them, plus the Post Office.  We wanted to get out but you don't DARE move your boat in Fiji without stamps from 10 (well, 5!) government officials.  So we stayed on the boat for a few days, then went into Suva with some friends.  It was awful, just devastated, but I managed to get all my papers signed and we sailed 200 miles to the tourist side of Fiji where things were calm and stayed there for over a month.