La Maison du Banian
Travel Blogs from Port Vila
Waterfalls, boat work, and dead sharks
... in front of the waterfall at the top, there's a tiny cave that you can just stand up in but you've got to walk through the water to the left of the small boulder! Good luck!
Since then we've been starting our days with pawpaw, passionfruit, pamplemousse, bananas and bread from the market, then working flat out on the boat, cleaning sails, servicing generators and outboards, fixing rudders and everything else we've been ...
Day 7 - Historic Museum visit and Jet Ski Tour
... nachos and Tim a BLT with avocado and bacon. They were both really delicious and with a soft drink each it cost us 2000 Vt. The cheapest and best lunch we have had so far. After lunch we made our way over to the jet skis. I'm not going to lie, i had a few butterflies. Ive never really been on a jet ski, let alone in the middle of the ocean. We signed a legalization form and had a little demonstration on how to drive the skis. 'Bob' our tour ...
Coolangatta, Australia to Port Vila, Vanuatu
... 8217;t see the same information anywhere on the Jeppesen electronic charts that come with Flight Deck on the iPad. Maybe there in another place off the chart that I haven’t found, but it’s not obvious where. I think this is one example of an important difference between the paper and electronic charts.
I had great views of the reefs around New Caledonia and the island itself as I flew over. There was mining and other ...
Off to a Dicky Start!
... full moon and Fanny was asking what family I have. I just got to the part where Dad had recently died, she showed compassion and I ended up sobbing uncontrollably! Amazing how you can embarrass yourself completely only to have that forge a close bond between you.
Back to our trip to Imaki... We had to stop at the turn off to Port Resolution to wait for one of our number who was travelling in another truck. Who should come along but Fanny and Fataba and the family. Fataba ...
Fly Away
... only be described as awful. Frank the "co-pilot" of the bus pointed out landmarks to us and made a series of very bad but funny jokes. At one stage we had to drive through a huge flooded section of road which was rather exciting if somewhat scary when the water started to come under the doors.
We arrived at Benjor at around 4pm and were given a run down by Nola, Fred and David. They also made us some ...