Dawnbreaker - Pentecost, Loltong Bay

Pentecost, Loltong Bay

Dawnbreaker

Lars Alfredson

Mon 23 Sep 2013 00:20

Pos 15:32.75S 168:08.83E

Loltong Bay

Thursday and Friday 19-20/9

Our visit to Loltong by Alice:

Hello everyone ! Few days ago we discovered the beautiful village of Loltong on Pentecost Island, and here comes a new story.

We first discovered the « yacht club » opened by Mathew, the fourth son of the chief. It was one of this beautiful traditional houses, delicately decorated with flags from the different boats, nice shells and

baskets available for sale too.

Then, we start walking through the village and meeting the people who live there. The small houses are surround by little gardens , trees and flowers. The habitants were very welcoming on this island. We will not

mentionned all of them but the following are the memorable ones for sure !! the first women i met was.. How to say this gently .. a bit out of her mind. She wanted to make some shoes with all the different sea

cumcumbers she could find. I spent few minutes talking to her but as it she was hardly understandable, we continue our way up the hill.

On the way to the Catholic School we also met Anne, a lovely woman and her son Devino who had recently opened a very small and adorable guesthouse available for rent. We visited it before to continue our

way.

Annes guesthouse

Once we arrived at the school, all the kids had just finished the class, it was a Friday, the beginning of the weekend. It was a beautifull school with a big grass playground, a basket ball area in front of the church

and all these with great view over the sea. I think it looks like the dream school for most of the children in the world !

The two J’s. Volounters from Australia. DJ the tame bird.

is this a good place for a nest?

We became very quikly surrounded by the kids. A lot of them spoke french and they had so many questions.. at the same time of course !! After getting to know each others, they brought me to see their

classroom. There are 3 classes in the school. The classes were full of poemes , reciepes , kids stories,drawings and of course with the rules of the class, very important ! They asked me to read their poemes and

were listening very carefully. At the end of each poem or story they were all screaming a big « yoooouuhouuu !!» What a wonderfull moment !!

The laundry room. Can we come on board?

Then we went back with the kids to the beach, I spent a lot of time to discuss with 2 amazing children : Kella, 9 years old and her little brother Lillon, 6 years old.

We talked about their week at school, our families, our bracelets, their village, ..etc They also showed us their garden with all the different fruits and vegetables. Kella is an unbelivable girls, full of life in her

eyes, beautiful, spontaneus, relevant and fair. She behaves like a woman even if she is only 9.

Walking home from school.

In the afternoon the kids came to the boat to visit it and we spent a very nice time with them. Mark was teaching the older boys Brasilian Jui jitsu , Sanna painting their nails, Tif and Diego swimming with them

around the boat and Lars and myself, chatting and listening to Bob Marley on the boat with them.

Mark and I also went for a ride on their dug out canoe , a very funny moment but good news, we managed to not sink their nice handmade boats !

At sunset, we finished the day on the beach drinkig Kava.. again ! haha and with a nice dinner with fresh vegetables from the islands at the Yacht Club. The night ended up in music with Mark and Laurence, from

the Alaskan yacht Radiance playing some great guitar and accordion for us .