Vanuatu Pics

Before-After Pictures Show Vanuatu Stripped Bare By A Category 5 Champion

Cyclone Pam sweeped through the Pacific state of Vanuatu on 17 March. You can see in the picture below that the Erromango Islands, where about 1,000 inhabitants live, appeared last January verdant and overgrown. However, after Pams has pulled down the tree at 200 miles per hour (320 km/h), cleared the plantation and poured saltwater over the foliage, the whole thing now looks blunt and brownish-grey.

About 80% of the inhabitants of Tanna (see above), who shelter 30,000 persons, have either demolished or ruined their houses. By some miracle, only six men were slaughtered.

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Of Vanuatu, this is the principal isle. Vanuatuu' s capitol, Port Vila, is located on East Coast Emerald Isle, which is the major hub for most trade and tourist activity. Port-Vila, Vanuatu, the finest in the tropics. Vanuatu Flower - sells every Friday at the Port Vila open air square - one of our favorite places to see Aussie visitors shopping and eating with the people.

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These are some photos from our journey to Vanuatu in September and October 2014. Thinking about our times there, I am overpowered by the unbelievable chance to get in touch with so many locals and so many sailors, new and old mates. We--we used to love to share this place with all of you.

Wherever we went, they robbed children for the cameras. when I showed them pictures of themselves. Children bring home fire wood to make supper while a crew warm up for the football match in the afternoons. Hascel has thoroughly checked the roller cages. David, our locals guidebook, took us on a walk to some of the cranial cavities in the area.

Climbing over cliffs, crossing a creek and crossing the wood on a sharp climb for fifteen min to get to the caves. Höhleneingang. It is the oldest cavern in the former location of the town, where wives and kids can be found in case of storm or endanger.

There are hand prints around the cavern, with traces of humans at the end of one of the corridors. A holy tomb for chieftains. He paused for a pray and then showed us the place that is now too hard and too risky to walk into after a slide that devastated most of the caves.

This area around the caves is a unique place for families, where they often come to the fireplace on Sunday afternoon to enjoy a relaxing afternoon and a barbeque. Children used to love the way the electric stag's face would move its mouths to join in the singing. Would you like to go to Fulton Bay, Lelepa Island? It was Hazel who made this pixie cats, just a sculpture, no pinata.

Children have a cover to catch the sweets so they don't walk onboard. Julie, Sara and I took the children to the Hawksbill Turtle Sanctuary at the Tranquility Eco Resort on Moso Island in Havannah Harbor. Children used to love to hold tortoises. Once a touc toutoe sequence of guides has been created, the whole design is executed in a smooth line.

Afterwards we went to the town and the primary education in Lamen Bay on Epi Island. The leader said these crops are a memory for married men to humiliate themselves in front of their women instead of getting into fights, and women should do the same. Vanuatu houses are among the most colourful we have ever seen.

Together with our Arcturus II and Flour Girl buddies we went on a tour to Avokh Island in the Maskelynes. Several of the older children were playing volley ball. An outfit of children followed us through the town. We were pampered with a festival of regional cuisine. Archipelago cauliflower filled with manioc.

That sweetheart liked to see her image on my cam. Kim drove Leo and Hazel home with Flour Girl. The chieftain came by later that afternoon with a Mahi-Mahi round, a Vanuatan tradition that his woman had prepared. Part of the best part of our times at Maskeleynes was to spend quality leisure with Flour Girl's family in and Arcturus II.

Children used to love to play together. Monopoly hadn't been around since our Dunedin, New Zealand resort last year, so the children were excited when Zach dropped it off. Children also discovered the beaches and Leo found this jewel. We' ve been looking for dugong, cousins of the dolphin-tailed manatees who lived in this area of Vanuatu, but they've been avoiding us time and again.

We drove from the Maskeleynes northwards to an anchoring site within the island of Wala, on the western shore of the island of Malekula. He' s outside his home with George, our indigenous leader. Home on Wala. At the Wala beaches. Next day we went to a Malekula town. And the little children did every move of the exercise.

Every town makes a variety of birds' dances. Returning to the town of Wala, George's daugther Ley gives the children a lecture in sandpinting. The last touch to a kayak with hatchback and canoeing. Sailing to the western shore of Malekula to see a ghost caves. It' the front door of the caves.

First part of the cavern is open to the skies. This is the oldest cavern on Vanuatu, where the first humans in Vanuatu ended up and found refuge, our locals' leader said, the chieftain's familiy still uses the cavern for refuge during the Cyclone. Hascel was frightened and wanted to stay in the lights while Leo and I were exploring the inside.

The next stop in the northern part of the country was Espiritu Santo, or Santo for a few days. Children had a lot of joy to celebrate Khan's ninth anniversary with a swimmingpoolparty at Beachfront Resort. im from Flour Girl made an excellent Choco Gateau with a creamy filled coco. A highlight of our whole trip was the visit of the Millennium Cave on Santo.

It was a well organised and professionally conducted trip from the nearby town. Every child had its own individual leader. The ogres from Morrigan for the cavern trip. It is common for everyone to paint their faces to symbolize the presence of seabirds, bat, rock and more before they enter the caves.

Prepare for the caves. View back through the caves. Hazel tried again and again to get away from her leader in the dark channel to spray through the water and slip down rock. At the other side of the cavern the rains continue and our leaders asked us to increase the speed because of the imminent heavy floods.

Flood-like rainfall made our rotten stream an aggressively rapid run, but we did love the falls that streamed all around us. Hazel's leader made her a waterproof cap. Smile in the town. Hazel having dropped her first teeth was another big landmark for us in Vanuatu.

After we hiked to the Millennium Cave, Hazel used the funds to buy her first parero at the country fair. Children had a lot of pleasure gathering seaglass. The last stop around Santo was this small mooring on Oyster Island. After two years living in New Zealand, Hazel meets a native woman.

Me and Lauren stopped the children running around the grass. So we swapped some children's footwear and groceries for a few fruits and veggies. We took the children snorkelling on one of the most healthy coral cliffs we have seen in Vanuatu. The whole length of the coastline was floating with me almost to the spot where the break of the ripples.

Rough little chick! Next day we went fifteen leagues to Vanua Lava. Situated on two falls that end in a swimmingpool on a beach. Trade with indigenous people. They were so sweet and very inquisitive about Leo and Hazel. We' d been hoping to stay on Vanua Lava for at least a few nights and maybe stop on the Torres Islands, but a short meteorological checklist showed a great meteorological picture to sail with the winds to the Solomon's, so the next day we went out first, checking the toll in Solar and off we went the happy way.

A further cascade on the western shore of Vanua Lava led us on the way to Sola. View in a northerly direction to the island Uruparapara at the beginning of our journey to the Solomon Islands. But Vanuatu is a breathtaking, magic place and we are hoping to return one of these days. We' re so grateful that we've been able to share this period with so many beautiful cruise ships and some of the most hospitable and inviting locals we've ever known.

It' so unbelievable to discover isolated parts of the world, one by one.