03 Jul 2008, Posted by Cat in News, 7 Comments. Tagged fiji

Happy Birthday Kaaron

Today is Kaaron’s birthday & what better way to mark the occasion than a visit to the fabulous Waterfall bar at the Suva Motor Inn? The bar sits on the far side of a precariously angled water slide. Kids were hurtling off the end of it & somehow managing to land bang smack in the water rather than overshooting the mark to skid across wet concrete.

The Suva Motor Inn is famous for one thing: its wall of shame. Four panels of sunbleached polaroids pinned to the boards with rusty thumb tacks. Names and descriptions scrawled below in faded biro include:

Sinbad – Track record 3 days,

Badge – 26 Hours awesome,

Strawb – Paid First Drank Later,

Bitch no 2 – The name says it all,

Slopes – Crazy Kiwi,

Sam – Son of Sam – That’s a worry,

& the fabulous…

[Cap'n Naked had been awarded a double tour, triple crown plaque. Not only that, but he'd written a long poem entitled The World Beer Tour Wall of Shame which was framed and mounted proudly on a post, dated 6/4/98]

There’s also Butter Boy – Full Kiwi Cream, G-Man – Always gets the girl, Big Mac – No French Fries, Gator Warren (no relation, Kaaron claims) Triple Crown – Double tour. And many more.

The bar itself features several engraved brass plaques screwed permanently into the wood, such as:

There’s a laminated A4 sheet of paper explaining the world beer tour rules:

Go around the world and be eligible to join the extremely exclusive “WALL OF SHAME CLUB”

Complete one half, north or south, and receive a Suva motor inn golf cap. A full circumnavigation will be rewarded with your own engrave tankard and a permanent place on the infamous wall.

The plaque where I sat read:

In recognition of 4 world beer tours

This seat at the bar is

Awarded to

“FAT MAN”

Derrick Rooney

I only had one beer so I wasn’t a contender.

Well, thats all the blogging I’m going to be doing from Fiji. Returning home tomorrow, unfortunately.