Kite Surfing in Fiji

Locations

1. Suva: light winds but big sandy beach at Veiuto? or with a boat at the Suva Sand Bank? very nice clear water, but next to the reef passage.
2. Pacific Harbour?: Very big bay, with a small beach, good wind there. The wind is nearly parralel to the shore.
3. Sigatoka: Before the Sand dune in the bay of the Crow's nest at high tide, or at the Sand Dunes (Strong winds and strong current) or a couple of bays later.
4. Natadola?: Good for surfing, trouble for kite surfing. Protected bay, so gusty and turning winds, but the nicest beach on Viti Levu.
5. Nadi?: Towards club Fiji.
6. Rakiraki: accomodation and kite surfing school
7. Leleuvia: Very nice island with affordable accommodation, easy to kite surf, not too far from Suva and off the east coast of Viti Levu. Leleuvia Island

Images

1. Image Gallery

Blog

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Free Software in the Pacific

TikiMaps

http://maps.tikiwiki.org/
Try Tikiwiki with Mapserver in a virtual machine with the VMWare Player. The file is here(375MB) More Info...

FOSS4G e-primer

I'm currently writing an e-primer on FOSS4G

ISOC/PICISOC

Blog

I run a blog on ISOC-PICISOC to give an inisght on how I view the Internet Society (ISOC) as a Trustee and the Pacific Islands Chapter of the Internet Soceity (PICISOC) as board member.
Other Blogs related to ISOC and PICISOC

• Rajnesh Singh, PICISOC Chairman
• Patrick Van Der Walle, ISOC Trustee
• Veni Markovski, ISOC Trustee

PacINET CDs

PacINET is a premium ICT conference for the Pacific Islands, it is organised by the Pacific Islands Chapter of the Internet Society (PICISOC).
Download the following CDs as an ISO image, then use your CD writer to burn it on a blank CD.

1. Download PacINET 2005 CD (288MB) (Mirror de) (Mirror fj)
2. Download PacINET 2006 CD (209MB) (Mirror de) (Mirror fj)

PICISOC Workshop at the IGF

PICISOC ran a worhsop at the IGF called ICT for Millenium Development Goals.

1. Download the audio capture in ogg format (you may need wimplayer)

The audio quality is bad for the first half and quite good for the rest.

A biskit view of the Internet

1. Download this VCD movie (278MB) which is an interview of various Pacific Islanders from Rotuma on their view of the Internet.

About me

1. Franck Martin - My CV and some other interesting details.

Articles-Books

How To Use The Internet For Your Career
Want a review of the hotel and restaurant we visit, then go to GuideToLiving
E-primer on FOSS4G
Internet for luddites