A small world made smaller by the internet and the fickled finger of fate.

We came home from GR early this year to go to a friend's wedding. A few days after the wedding I got an email from a guy (Auzie Mike) that I hadn't heard from since the early '70s. He was in Fiji and needed crew to help get his boat to Auz. The plan was to take a couple months crawling through the Fiji, Vanuatu, and New Calidonia island groups on our way. It took Lou about 10 minutes to convince me that it was a good idea and a couple days later I was on a plane with a few spare parts and a pair of shorts. We were headed for Bundagerg, Ql. and guess what, Fraiser Island was our landfall some 78 wonderfull days later.

Here are some pictures with of course a bit of coment.

Sunday, November 23, 2008

Lots of beautiful snorkeling and diving.

Clear water and spectacular reefs made for great snorkeling
Rays flurish in the atols.




Just off the coast of Espirito Santo, Vanuatu, there is a massive underwater dump called Million Dollar Point. The dump is a popular dive site because of the amazing quantity of post WW-II stuff dumped there by the US military: jeeps, six-wheel drive trucks, bulldozers, semi-trailers, fork-lifts, tractors, bound sheets of corrigated iron, unopened boxes of clothing etc. It is truely a monument to the futility of war.
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