Port Vila Day One

Another beautiful morning at the Nautilus Watersports dock.

Looking back at the Nautilus buildings.

Port Vila’s tugboat.

Interesting rock formation.

Looking toward the wheelhouse of the boat.

An Air Vanuatu seaplane taxiing for a takeoff from the harbor.

In the afternoon I went with three men from New Zealand who had just returned from a five day charter fishing trip to the resort of Hideaway Island.

The entire island is the resort.

Kids playing in the water.

The kids had loads of fun jumping off the boat as it pulled away.

Arriving at Hideaway Island.

First Night in Port Vila

Upon arriving at Port Vila, I went to Nautilus Watersports and checked into their bunkhouse.  For the duration of my stay in Port Vila, I had decided to go SCUBA diving with the crew at Nautilus and stay with them as well.

Almost immediately I was in my swim trunks, geared up with SCUBA equipment, and on a boat headed for a night dive on a shipwreck.

The sun sets fast in Vanuatu.

Landing at Port Vila

The island of Efate.  The airfield on the island was built in World War II as an emergency landing strip (along with two others on other parts of the island) for damaged planes coming back from the fight in the Solomon Islands.

Part of the reef.

Lots of beef was being grown under the flightpath of the airport.