New Caledonia! 20:55.131S !67:16.725E
South Pacific Familyadventure 2008
Claes Brodin
Sun 19 Sep 2010 06:11
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After an another beautiful night on the ocean we
saw Lifou in the Loyalty Islands after sunrise.Finding the harbour in We ("Way")
was easy but the entrance is very narrow and a sort of Zig-Zag manouver is
necessary to enter the very small marina.This is not a place to approach in
heavy tradewinds or in darkness.
So the sail from Fiji to here has been all you can
ask for which was very good for John who did his first oceanpassage.The stopover
in Vanuatu gave more taste for this islandgroup(former New Hebrides),with high
lush "djungleislands"and melanesians very much living like "old times".New
Caledonia is different,French and a lot more developed than other islandgroups
in the South Pacific.This is also the last islandgroup in the band of South
Pacific "paradiseislands"among cruisers known as the "Coconut milkrun".This
leaves me with a feeling of melancholy.Is this the beginning of the end of the
"South Pacific dream".............
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