I hope you can scroll back and read the others, but I thought I'd better wrap up this trip.
Saturday 10th July 2010
We have had rain and barking dogs in the night, but still wake up refreshed.
Duncan goes up to the office to pay, there is a little discussion, but we do not need to pay extra apart from our evening meals and drinks. The shuttle arrives and we get to the airport on time. A good flight to Noumea and to our surprise Arc en Ciel put on a transfer to the hotel. It is too early to check in, but we leave our luggage and take the Noumea Explorer to the zoo.
We did the native to New Caledonia section including some extremely large pigeons whose bass cooing sounded like the scary booming noise we heard at Queen Hortense’s Cave. Also Flying Foxes, a silver pheasants and peacocks, both white and blue.
Another highlight was the water dragons – thank
goodness our little lizard in the aircon was just a few inches long.
We rejoined the Noumea Explorer and continued with our journey to Palm Beach where we had a late lunch – Croque Monsieur (like a toasted sandwich) and a burger with some delicious fruit smoothies. No baguette!!!
Then we walked along the Anse Vata to our hotel. The rain was limited to squally showers, but hundreds of win
d-surfers and para-sailors were out on the bay, careening along at a great rate of knots.
At Casa del Sol we have an apartment – not that we need it now, but use the drier to dry Duncan’s running gear after he has been for a long run up the promenade while I go and book us into an Italian restaurant. We are really looking forward to it, but the French don’t do Italian very well. The entrees are so large we don’t enjoy our mains.
The bed is quite hard, the night is quite noisy – mainly wind, and we sleep fitfully until the wakeup call at 4.50am.
We have had rain and barking dogs in the night, but still wake up refreshed.
Duncan goes up to the office to pay, there is a little discussion, but we do not need to pay extra apart from our evening meals and drinks. The shuttle arrives and we get to the airport on time. A good flight to Noumea and to our surprise Arc en Ciel put on a transfer to the hotel. It is too early to check in, but we leave our luggage and take the Noumea Explorer to the zoo.
We did the native to New Caledonia section including some extremely large pigeons whose bass cooing sounded like the scary booming noise we heard at Queen Hortense’s Cave. Also Flying Foxes, a silver pheasants and peacocks, both white and blue.
Another highlight was the water dragons – thank
goodness our little lizard in the aircon was just a few inches long.We rejoined the Noumea Explorer and continued with our journey to Palm Beach where we had a late lunch – Croque Monsieur (like a toasted sandwich) and a burger with some delicious fruit smoothies. No baguette!!!
Then we walked along the Anse Vata to our hotel. The rain was limited to squally showers, but hundreds of win
d-surfers and para-sailors were out on the bay, careening along at a great rate of knots.At Casa del Sol we have an apartment – not that we need it now, but use the drier to dry Duncan’s running gear after he has been for a long run up the promenade while I go and book us into an Italian restaurant. We are really looking forward to it, but the French don’t do Italian very well. The entrees are so large we don’t enjoy our mains.
The bed is quite hard, the night is quite noisy – mainly wind, and we sleep fitfully until the wakeup call at 4.50am.
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