> ... Kinda challenges the notion of a 'desert isle in paradise', doesn't it?
Roger Kelley talked our way into the Grand Pacific Hotel in Suva in 2003.
We went all over the place--even up onto the roof, where I took some pictures.
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I was laughing at myself even as I took the pictures. The sun on the roof, beating down on the asphalt roof, was almost unendurable. I figured that the pictures would turn out well. Tropical islands photograph beautifully, but the sunshine is harsh!