New Caledonia

  Got the earliest tender to the island.  I got crowned with a head wreath when I arrived at the Kuto landing on Iles de Pins at 8:15 AM.  There was nothing set up by the vendors. I decided to walk to the village of Vao about 6 km. away.  It was a nice leisurely walk to what I thought was the village of Vao. At a sign for the village I found  a closed Post Office.  A few hundred …

Disembarked the ship about 10:15 AM. Had my picture taken with the members of the local tribal dance group. Then with my friends Tom and Toni got on  a downtown tour bus. We toured past the Coconut Tree Square, which is more of a park than square, drove to a place called Fol Lookout Point, next to an old theater that has been abandoned, for a view of the city center, the nickel plant and even a view of the …