Wow – what a trip.  I can’t believe how much we fit into seven days.  First day was at Espiritu Santo with a visit to Turtle Bay Resort.  You will never guess what we found here?  I knew you wouldn’t!  There is a small circus with acrobatics, clown tricks and fantastic food.  This resort is owned by an ex-european circus clown complete with crusty hair.  Go to radiantgetaways.com for some photos of the antics.  He runs clown classes, kids birthday parties and afternoons of tumbling and fun.  After that excitement we embarked on our next adventure.  After arriving late to the airport two of our group were checked in and, unbeknown to us were shuffled on to a very small twin otter.  All we could do was wave to them through the open door and start preparing ourselves for what awaited us on the tarmac ‘another twin otter’.  What a trip – it was bumpy, noisy and stomach turning for some on the flight with a few small additional bags being carried from the aircraft at Port Vila.

Right, moving on from that experience to Port Vila.  I can’t go into everything we did as it would take days to tell you all about it so here is a dot point snap shot:

-  we’ve seen every bay North, South, East and West of Efate and what it showed us is that we see such a small amount of a country when we arrive cold as tourists

-  snorkeling off Breakas, Hideaway Island and Pele Island was fantastic seeing electric blue fish, large hungry Poulet and giant clams

- Pele Island was a highlight with dolphins swimming under the boat to escort us to the island, then a very comprehensive village tour, entertainment during lunch with a traditional string band and the wonderful voices of the school children

- this trip was a little special in that we presented the village Chief with a large bible for the pulpit for the new church

- the cultural village tour was also fantastic and taught us that we could survive on a deserted island, although befriending a spider to collect its web to go fishing takes me out of my comfort zone – take a look at the photos

We can’t forget the great food almost every meal – to find out more email me when next you travel.

Stay posted for more of what is coming up.

Kelliegh

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