Castaway Island "17:27.52S 177:02.65E"

VulcanSpirit
Richard & Alison Brunstrom
Fri 2 Aug 2013 12:10
We're visiting the uninhabited volcanic island where Castaway was filmed. As you can see it is a really beautiful spot, seen here with one of the crew of the Vulcan Spirit holding her stomach in:
 
 
 
The water here is the warmest we've found so far, at about 30 degrees.  Just to the right of the picture is Tom Hank's cave situated right on the top of the beach:
 
 
And at the end of the beach is this rather nice lump of rock:
 
 
Which is connected to the rest of the island by this fabulous tombolo of bright white coral sand, with  a giant swimming pool on each side:
 
 
And as you can see the weather has settled down a bit. After three months of quite miserable weather the last two weeks has been what the Tropics are supposed to be like. At last.