Our visit to Pele accompanied by Pandion. Melissa and I circumnavigate the island on foot, get adopted by two dogs and M has a go at being a surf photographer…
Potnarvin to Port Vila & on to Havannah Pass…
Two sessions berthed off the sea wall in Port Vila, catching up with friends and soaking up the calm of Havannah Pass…
Ponusia Bay to Potnarvin
After a few days the swell started making its way into Ponusia Bay. This is flat, you’ll have to imagine the swell… At the same time, we knew that Laewe and her relatives were planning on walking back to Potnarvin. M asked them if they might want a ride on Bella Luna – they said […]
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Dillons Bay to Ponusia Bay
We left Dillons Bay for a little anchorage that we hoped would be a bit calmer – Ponusia Bay. The sail was fairly craptastic – everything banging around, the Smalls left all the hatches unlocked on the port side ceiling, I left the one above my pillow unlocked. Wet, wet, wet. Gah, gah, gah. Small […]
Tanna to Erromango
Travel makes me fickle. On arrival in Tanna I was fairly certain I could dump everything and live there for a year in my own hut, tending my own garden, beachcombing and cadging an occasional ride into Lenakel. However, after being knocked out by food poisoning for three days, and then having seriously contemplating leaving […]
Black sand, hot river, a search party and an interesting ride home.
Our second last day on Tanna. Over on the other side of the bay was not somewhere I had been – a beach of coral and sand, with a restaurant hut 100 metres from the shoreline. Although we’d previously decided we wouldn’t need a guide to walk to the John Frum village the next bay […]
Rahmasan Nup Nup-an
A week and a day since we made landfall in Vanuatu on the island of Tanna. It feels like a month. Rahmasan nup nup-an means, “Hello, good morning!” in Port Resolution (the dialects are specific to each village, so this particular greeting doesn’t work a few kilometres away). Here’s our anchorage – that’s us on […]
New Caledonia to Vanuatu
On our customs forms we had indicated we would be arriving in Port Resolution at lunchtime on Thursday 2 August. If you want to check into Vanuatu on the island of Tanna (not one of the check-in ports) you have to apply for special permission – which we recieved. It costs a bit of extra […]
Farewell New Caledonia
Today has been our final day in New Caledonia – tomorrow morning we leave Anse Majic in Baie de Prony with our sails set for Vanuatu. My morning was spent making peanut butter, bliss balls, steamed spuds and boiled eggs for the passage. Small DB made cherry gummies and also cut up chunks of orange […]
Darling it Hertz
A long day. A good day. A day of perfect weather. A day that thwacked me repeatedly to remind me that gluten is everywhere no matter how you endeavour to avoid it. I hired a car! It was manual, because automatics cost more. I drove on the other side of the road – for the […]