We spent a couple more days in the lagoon anchorage just hanging out and taking afternoon trips up the river to swim in the fresh water. Ali and a couple of others headed over to the village to catch a ride back into Luganville to get groceries and keep us all from having to return to the less appealing Luganville anchorage.
We eventually moved a few miles down to the east side of Aore Island, where we found cows drinking from fresh water springs bubbling out of the sand on the beach, and also some very nice coral on the bay’s protective reef.
I’ve only seen lobster twice in Vanuatu. Like most things in the ocean these days, it seems like there should be a lot more of them.
Another rare sighting. Despite the clean water and decent condition of the coral, there just isn’t much swimming around here that’s bigger than the palm of your hand.
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Are you heading north through the Banks Islands, highly recommended, and much further away from civilisation. The lobsters/crayfish have probably been overfished, as when we were there 25 years ago, villagers would often volunteer to go and get us a lobster. One sought after trade or gift was D size batteries for their torches.
Such beautiful photographs of a stunning spot. Cows on a sandy beach is a new one for me. Love it. Odd that there isn’t more marine life, though.