We were up early this morning again and enjoyed a nice "long" (aka as far as Elaine's legs would take her) walk then stopped for a coffee at Café O, before returning to Paw Paw for a cooked breakfast. It wasn't long before our cleaning efforts from yesterday were rendered null and void when we noticed a thick, black soot falling out of the sky like rain. If there is one fault we can find of Fiji, it is this, but today has been exceptionally bad. A huge sugarcane fire combined with a strong southerly wind has created so much soot it's even floating on the water in the marina and port area. Needless to say, Paw Paw's exterior is covered in it and we have a slight mess inside, since we had all the hatches open before we realised what was happening. It's surprising just how much air pollution lands on a yacht and Fiji is no exception. We had red Sahara sand in Bonaire, phosphate in Curacao, cement dust in Puerto Rico, coal dust in Colombia, diesel soot in Samoa and a white powdery substance in New Zealand, just to name a few. Usually a good rain storm washes it all away, but it's the dry season here in Fiji now, so no hope of that happening any time soon. Guess the vacuum cleaner will have to suffice!