New Caledonia - Noumea

We arrived into the pass on the reef to enter into New Caledonia exactly as planned at 6:30 am. The visibility was good, the currents non existent and we made good way on through to the town of Noumea, Port du Sud marina. The clearing in went seamlessly with Chloe from Noumea Yacht Services doing all of the work. French is definitely the language of choice here and we would still be in customs trying to explain ourselves.

So far, we haven't done anything extraordinary. A walking tour of the down town area, eating out at a few nice restaurants, cleaning up the boat, checking out the market to replenish all of the stuff we had to throw over board because quarantine wouldn't allow it into the country and just hanging out. We could have been gone to the outer reefs a bit sooner, but we really want to go to Mass at the St. Joeseph's Cathedral on Sunday and will head out after that.

A side note - drinking the water from green coconuts and then cracking them open with the machette (without whacking your hand off) to eat the soft pudding like flesh, is truly a delight that we have discovered in the South Pacific. Just wanted to record that for memory's sake.

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