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Vanuatu to New
Caledonia passage.
Coming across the pacific is easy. The trade winds either blow from south, east
or yes you guessed it, south-east. Sailing down to New Caledonia from Vanuatu is
almost straight south and we needed a good blow form East to get a good start. A
good blow we got and set out in 20 to 25 knots of wind, needless to say the
waves was big and we had a great first night, by great i mean that we did lots
of miles in the right direction. Yes it was as bumpy as it could be and sleeping
was not really an option. Since it not was dangerous only uncomfortable we used
the good old, ' wait till u are completely exhausted, then pass out' , this
worked great for me but I think Sabrina still struggled a bit. Day two was not
soo good, the wind died down and changed to south east and we were no longer
able to keep the course, new plans had to be made and we decided to make an
illegal landfall on the back side of the island of Liefu. This island, a good
day's sail away from the main island has one legal port of entry and we reached
it by hitch hiking the following day. This in not cosher so i was hoping the
clearance person was a nice man, fourtunatly we were not able to even find him
so we said 'screw it' and sailed around illegaly until we reached Noumea the
capital of New Caledonia.
Arriving in New
Caledonia:
On the right is a picture of me on the beach in Liefu, I had to take this
picture because I caught myself getting to spoiled. When Sabrina asked me if we
could walk on the beach that run's paralell with the road to town I got annoyed
and argued that there were a perfectly fine walkway next to the road, why should
we get sand on our toes then, oooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhh Noooooooo, how
stupid did I feel when I realized what I just had said. I guess I have seen one
too many beaches.
The beach also had dogs, we met 5 dogs that were running around and they followed us down the
beach, back to town, waited for us while looking in a restaurant and finally
left us 45 min later. We were then hiding in a coffee shop and some poor girl
walked by and they decided to stalk her instead, the hole thing was hilarious.
What's next?:
I dont know but would like to say Thank's too all the people who have written to
me and supported me. I am afraid this is it for Spetakkel's travels this time.
A few more letters and videos are still to come though so keep checking the
page.
Old flag and a pier in liefu
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The sailors
Dogs on Liefu beach
Spoiled man
The Route??
We harbour
Liefu house
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English
