BULA, FIJI IS KIND OF LIKE A DREAM, THE TYPE OF DREAM YOU DON’T WANT TO WAKE UP FROM. MY EARLIEST MEMORY OF FIJI CAME FILLED WITH HOLLYWOOD DRAMA, TOM HANKS AND A SUSPECT VOLLEYBALL GOING BY THE NAME OF WILSON. I COULDN’T HAVE BEEN OLDER THAN NINE AT THE TIME AND ALREADY THE SALTWATER HAD SOAKED THROUGH MY SKIN, INTO MY BLOOD AND SETTLED IN MY BONES. THIS ISLAND PARADISE (NOTWITHSTANDING THE HARDSHIPS MR. HANKS AND WILSON) HAD CAPTURED MY IMAGINATION AND SO THE DREAM BEGAN. W

LAST MONTH, WHILST ON LOCATION SHOOTING OUR VONU BEERS FIRST CAMPAIGN PROJECT IN FIJI, WE GOT THE OPOTUNITY VISIT MANA ISLAND TO ASSIST VONU'S MARINE PARTNER THE MAMANUCA ENVIRONMENT SOCIETY (MES) IN THE RELEASE OF A YOUNG TURTLE. VONU IS PROUD TO SUPPORT MES, WHO ARE DEDICATED TO THE PRESERVATION OF MARINE AND LAND ENVIRONMENTS WITHIN FIJI. THIS INCLUDES THE SEA TURTLE CONSERVATION PROJECT IN THE MAMANUCA ISLANDS, WHICH IS HOME TO FOUR CRITICALLY ENDANGERED, ENDANGERED OR VU