The skipper of the jetboat is a friend of Dee, that’s why he picked us up from her house which is on his way. Once arrived, our last doubts were gone. We paid exactly what Dee told us and went on the boat. After one stop on another island we arrived at our destination Mana Island after approximately 1 hour and were welcomed by one of Lawrence’s cousins (who didn’t remember us in the beginning, he obviously had too much Kava 🙂 ) and they introduced us to all important rules on the island. We even got an upgrade to a private room, but together with a Tasmanian guy. Anyway, better than a dorm, as we had a private bathroom and shower for ourselves.
Everything else is told pretty quickly. After the first steps on the island you instantly feel completely relaxed. Breakfast was around 5m apart from the ocean, there was a hammock between two palm trees and surprisingly good food (of course nothing really extraordinary for such a cheap price) and a few casual activities (e.g. an awesome fire and dance show at our last evening). Besides lying on the beach, we walked once around the island (which takes around 2 hours), climbed up the sunset point for the sunset and rented a kayak in order to go to a small sand dune offshore the island.
Additionally, we got in contact with some very cool people. First the Tasmanian (who should be on the same flight to LA as the two of us), two Canadians (who were living at Dee as well), a Californian, a Texan and last but not least even one from Lapland. How funny is that? We had to go 25000km away, to meet someone from the northern Arctic Circle. We were quite happy that there were almost no Germans on the island.
For everything else just have a look on the pictures. After 4 unbelievable days we took the boat back to the main island to move in again in Lawrence’s place.