Daku Resort Blog — The news from Daku

Art Retreat at Daku Resort with Elena Parashko

Painting with Elena Parashko

25 August 2010

Last week Elena Parashko lead a group of artists at Daku Resort. Karen (attending her second art and painting retreat at Daku) writes below: “This is my second time to Daku Resort to combine some learning with pleasure. I left with some concern as to whether the memories I had retained so vividly from last [...]

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Memoir writing

17 August 2010

Patti Miller’s memoir writing course happened in May – I’ve been slow in getting it up but here it is. Melissa, one of the course participants, wrote this account of the week: In May I participated in a Writing in Paradise workshop (Memoir Finding the Story). The course ran for six days and the presenter [...]

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Rachel’s choir in Fiji

24 June 2010

In June, Rachel Hore – who has taught many singing weeks at Daku – brought out her own choir. This is a choir she teaches regularly in the Blue Mountains, so they all knew each other already. That, and her own close ties with the community around Daku, made for a very special week and [...]

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Good Morning Show on TVNZ

16 June 2010

Through the Good Morning Show on TVNZ (New Zealand) we offered two places on DeidreLee Allen’s PureBalance YogaPilates course in the first week of June. The winner was Dannette who brought along her sister – and subsequently wrote this lovely letter of appreciation for the week: I was the winner of the 7-night Yoga Pilates [...]

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Snorkeling or snorkelling

6 June 2010

Who cares? you might say…..but in this day of search-engine driven marketing, it matters. When we put up details of our snorkeling weeks, the Americans will find it – but if we want the Australians and English to come along, it has to be snorkelling. Well, I’m probably exaggerating a bit because people trawl around [...]

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Savusavu Fun Run

29 May 2010

On April 10th Savusavu held its second ever Fun Run and we were hosts for the event. Organised by Sharon Wild, it raised over $400 for the PTA of Khemendra Primary School. We had a beautiful (and very hot) morning and with 80 participants and a fair amount of noise and chaos early on, but [...]

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New sign – and back to normal

14 April 2010

Here’s a picture of our new sign – the last one got international coverage when it was destroyed in the cyclone, but here we are again back to normal. It was a bright sunny day when the photo was taken, but in case you’re interested, the rather dark figures below are Raj and JJ.

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Cyclone Tomas

26 March 2010

Cyclone Tomas hit Fiji on March 15, and the northern islands were particularly badly damaged. It’s being described as one of the worst cyclones in the area for 20 years. All things considered, we got away fairly lightly – no-one injured, no buildings damaged. We were very touched by all the messages of concern and [...]

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Snorkelling

10 March 2010

The last two months have been fantastic for snorkelling – great visibility and lots of fish. Split Rock continues to astound me – and everyone I take there. Last time I swam out from the beach with a family staying at Daku, and we saw a striped sea snake in the shallows. Although venomous, they [...]

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Roof Renovations!

19 February 2010

It’s one thing to renovate rooms ‘cos you can do them one at a time, but when you’re ripping out the entire roof of the main reception/dining/bar area, it’s a big ask! So we had 10 days of disruption but our guests were very relaxed about it – we moved the restaurant up to the [...]

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