Positively my last Vanuatu Blog!

Sunday 15th  July South Pacific Ocean 22 07.7S  167 34.4E  

Today’s Blog by David (Time zone BST+10.00; UTC +11.00 )

Position report

About 7 miles closer to New Caledonia than we were last time!

Handbag Polka 2

World Cruising have chosen the village in Port Resolution as their place to “sponsor”.  They have donated towards the cost of the new school, accommodation at the yacht club etc.. They encourage the fleet to buy and bring gifts for the village – to be exchanged in a formal ceremony in which the whole of the village turns out to greet the whole of the fleet.   It was an interesting day that others, I am sure, will blog about.

As part of the festivities we had another bout of Handbag Polka but this time the dancers were covered up (presumably to protect them from the sun..?).  The men ran around in circles again and jumped up and down. The women stood  singing around  the perimeter during the jumping up and down bit:

and ran around with the men  for the other bit:

(Reckon I could get a job as a ‘Strictly’ judge when we finish this Odyssey?).

My point here is not that the dancing is especially good or bad, but to draw attention to the clothing.  These are the most colourful dresses we have seen on the journey so far – they made it quite a spectacle and for me, made the whole event worthwhile.

We will come back to Vanuatu next year to “do it properly”.

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Footnote

We have been sending blogs to both Serendipity’s Blog Page and also to the World ARC Blog. Now that we have left the rally  our blogs soon will no longer be available on the World Cruising  site. 

If  you want to continue to follow our progress (even if it is in the hope that we one day will be ship wrecked!) you will need to go to our Blog Page:

www.blog.mailasail.com/serendipity

And to find out where we are right now:

http://live.adventuretracking.com/serendipity