tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57051113406238959012024-03-04T20:28:23.452-08:00South Sea Island Abroadsouthseaislandhomehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01177834665382411343noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5705111340623895901.post-746706848183569632014-10-02T13:51:00.001-07:002014-10-02T14:17:39.466-07:00Noumea Town<div class="MsoNormal">
We sat in the hot sun this morning and practiced our French
with a small group of school kids, while we waited for everyone to arrive.
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We headed off to Anse Vata in the local bus. While the kids
explored the shops, we adults sat and had coffee, a milo milkshake and pain au
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It was interesting to see so many tropical fish in the
Aquarium, and to recognize some of the fish that were seen while snorkelling at
Duck Island and on the glass-bottomed boat tour at La Pare Armadee. The Turtle pool was the definite favourite with everyone, and it helped that they had shaded seating, so while resting and being entertained by about 5 turtles, we were lucky enough to still be there when the staff came to feed them.</div>
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After the Aquarium we wandered next door to have lunch at
Quick. Quick is a French fast food restaurant, very similar to McDonalds, but
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We then walked around to the Bay de Citreon for a swim and a
relaxing afternoon. It’s quite a busy place with shops and restaurants across
the road, and there were many people sunbathing and swimming. Some of our girls
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I think the highlight of today was the Le Choo choo train
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We all crammed into the back carriage, leaving the front two
empty. Our guide was a lady named Lida, who we recognized straight away because
she had been helping the other day at La Phare Amedee. She has a very distinctive
voice, an American accent, although we later found out that she is originally
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She gave us an interesting talk about the history of the
island, pointing out important landmarks. The Americans, it seems, have had a
big influence here, building 5 hospitals, after they occupied New Caledonia
during WW2. Lida and the train driver
took us up to the top of a hill so we could look out over the city and all the
way over to the Lighthouse island.<br />
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Americans had used during the war. On the way back, Lida took us through the
old French colonial part of Noumea, with their pretty houses and colourful exteriors
and the shuttered windows. Because there was no glass available for windows at
the time they were built, the shutters were practical for their ventilation as
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Lida wanted to show us her favourite building. I think she
is quite passionate about it, as she wanted to walk us all the way around us to
show the graffiti art that the young people of Noumea had done on the
building. It is a day once a year that they all come up there and express
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From Rosa Parks to Amy Winehouse, it was quite impressive
and as Lida said, all done from spray cans. It was a lonely place though and we
found an area around the back where someone had made a home behind the iron
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From here we drove back into the center of town to catch the
bus back to school. Tomorrow the kids will spend most of the day at the school
puttin ghteir presentation together and in the afternoon join in some sporting games and activities.<o:p></o:p><br />
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Sunset at Bay de Citreon.<br />
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Everyday since we arrived in New Caledonia, the locals and
the tourists have been telling us, “wait until you go to <a href="http://www.amedeeisland.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">La Phare AmedeeIsland</a>. That will be your best day.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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Well, yesterday was that day. We were all very excited about it,
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Down at the docks, there were a couple of other school
groups waiting. Looked like it was going to be a busy day over on the island.<o:p></o:p></div>
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It took about 45 minutes to get there, and we all jumped off
and walked down the long, beautiful jetty. <o:p></o:p></div>
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How do you explain the beauty that is La Pharre Amedee? It
is not easy because it is so incredibly beautiful it takes your breath away.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Right in the middle of the island is a huge white
lighthouse. Unfortunately we were not able to climb it as they are renovating
it. <o:p></o:p></div>
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We found a nice little spot under an umbrella, right on the
water. Everyone went off to change, and came back to excitedly report that the
toilets were nice and there was toilet paper in them! But not to look up!</div>
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Why? Because right above our heads in the girls toilets was
the most enormous spider.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<o:p> </o:p>So much to do on the island. The glass bottom boat, the boat trip out to the reef, the
luncheon, the coconut-tree climbing and shredding demonstration, as well as an
island dance performance, not to mention swimming and snorkelling and
paddle-boarding.</div>
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<o:p> </o:p>Most of us went on the glass bottomed boat first, and were
treated to reef sharks who liked playing with the boat. They somehow attache
the top of their heads to the glass and suction them on there and go for a
ride.The guide called them “the lazy sharks.” And we saw some of the beautiful
coral, fish and the highlight – a turtle. The colours of the water out at the reef were like jewels. Incredibly beautiful.</div>
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<o:p> </o:p>We were told they were afraid of humans and that even though
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us if we didn’t bother them, and that their mouths are too small anyway to bite
human flesh. But, we had a couple of close encounters, in spite of their fear
of humans. Mrs. Rust, sunbathing on the beach had one crawl right along side her,
so quickly in fact, that we didn’t have enough time to call out and warn her
until it was very close. We also saw them cruising through our towels and
clothes towards the end of the day. One of the workers on the island warned us
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Spot the snake in this photo. Actually, there were two (but you might only be able to see one)! Crawling through out things. You can see all of us lined up at the edges, staying well away until the snakes slithered off into the water.</div>
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<o:p> </o:p>What a fantastic day it has been. At lunchtime we were
treated to a smorgasbord lunch of all kinds of food. Salads and roast meat,
prawns and crab and mussels, followed by
desert of cake, fruit and icecream. Then while we were eating the staff put of
a wonderful pacific island dance for us – with live music of drums and
ukeleles. They even chose some of our girls to join in the fun.</div>
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When you first drive in, your view is arrested by the incredible architecture of the place. It's stunning!<br />
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George was our guide for the afternoon. He had a lovely hat.<br />
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The art was amazing. These photos are from some of the exhibitions we were allowed to photograph.<br />
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Outdoors they have reconstructed a traditional Kanak village. George told us it took two weeks to build the chief's hut, in spite of it's intricate construction, because the whole village helps in the making.<br />
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While we were outside, George pointed out a tiny fern-like leaf in the grass. When you touch it, it curls up into itself. It had a special name, but I can't recall it at the moment. It was lots of fun, and soon the entire group were dotted all over the hillside, filming this little plant reacting to the slightest touch.<br />
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<br />southseaislandhomehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01177834665382411343noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5705111340623895901.post-60919159750797240352014-09-30T12:29:00.001-07:002014-09-30T12:29:08.116-07:00A Quick UpdateA quick update.. will post more later.<br />
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My favourite part of the day is catching the local bus. It's really fun watching all the different people get on and off, who you get to sit next to, and driving through the sometimes narrow streets of Noumea where people are standing around smoking, or walking to their business. Also, the bus driver usually has loud music blaring through the bus. On one bus yesterday we had the French version of the hymn, "I know who holds tomorrow."<br />
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Everyone was tired today - so we were glad for a slower day, shopping at the markets in the morning and the cultural centre in the afternoon. This is the main shopping day for the kids, and they got some really cool things, and picked up pain au chocolate for morning tea and cold drinks at the cafe. 200 francs for iced tea!<br />
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We walked into the centre of town and relaxed for awhile in the shade before getting some lunch at the supermarket. Today is the last day in New Caledonia that you can use the old money, so we discussed who needed to used up the old.<br />
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We caught a very nice bus, along with another school group from Australia to the cultural centre where George our guide took us around their amazing building. It was fascinating learning about the history of the Kanak people and viewing their traditional homes.<br />
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<br />southseaislandhomehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01177834665382411343noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5705111340623895901.post-31856549028502834082014-09-29T03:51:00.000-07:002014-09-29T12:23:08.459-07:00L'ile Aux CanardWe've had a very full on day today, starting with a morning at the school.<br />
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Andrea, Gaylene and I took the local bus from the hotel around to the school to meet up with the kids. We knew it was going to be a good day when the bus driver blared Celine Dion through the bus as we drove around the Bay.<br />
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Soon the bus filled up, mostly with school kids.<br />
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The teacher at the school gave us a tour in the beautiful morning sunshine.<br />
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We all had the experience on sitting in one of the French/English classes. The English class had a project for our kids which they listed on the white-board. We have to make a tourist video of New Caledonia, by getting special video footage and photographs of the places they listed. On Friday they will put it all together as a presentation at the school.<br />
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We ate a big school lunch with the rest of the school, running to get under cover while a quick shower fell. We were worried it might rain into the afternoon, as we were scheduled to catch the bus back to Anse Vata to get the water taxi across to Duck Island. But the shower soon passed and the sun came out again although it was very windy.<br />
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What a beautiful place Duck Island is! You could almost swim out to it from Anse Vata, it's that close. It was hot and sunny and calm over on the little island. Andrea advised us to put our reef shoes or wear sandals getting out of the boat, which was wise advice, because all around the shoreline was dried out coral - such pretty shapes and textures.<br />
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We found a shady spot under an umbrella for us all to sit and store our things. There is only one place to get changed here on this island, and it was a small toilet - long drop toilet, that is. So we held our noses and got into our bathing suits.<br />
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Everyone got a chance to go our snorkelling. We heard reports of a baby octopus, a sea snake, a fish with a very long nose - a little like a sword-fish, and lots of beautiful reef fish and coral. Everyone talked about getting stung by something out there that made loud popping sounds. One of the girls said it was like that popping candy. We wondered if it might have been a micro jellyfish of some sort.<br />
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After the snorkelling some of the girls sunned themselves, some of us walked around the island (which doesn't take very long at all). It was nice to be able to go for a little swim in the beautiful clear water and to cool off on a very hot afternoon.<br />
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This was our little spot for the afternoon. You can see my son, Hugh on one of the loungers and Ben on the other one. The girls chose a different part of the island to sun-tan.<br />
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At 4pm, our boat came to pick us up and we travelled back to the mainland.<br />
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I have lots more photos to upload, but will try earlier in the morning when the internet connection is better.....southseaislandhomehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01177834665382411343noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5705111340623895901.post-58025143323114503162014-09-28T11:22:00.000-07:002014-09-28T11:26:13.734-07:00ArrivalIt is early Monday morning. I have woken at 4am. There is a 2 hour time difference, so I think our bodies are going to need some adjusting time.<br />
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We have a full day ahead of us with snorkelling this afternoon, but we finally arrived to warm and cloudy Noumea half an hour after our scheduled time of arrival. The flight struck heavy turbulence, somewhere around halfway. The stewardesses gave up serving drinks - I think they were worried about tea and coffee spilling and burning someone. So we were all rather relieved to spot the beautiful, blue jewelled islands dotted across the ocean as we began the descent into New Caledonia.<br />
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Most of the host families were waiting patiently in the airport. As we got off the plane we walked down a glassed corridor where they were waving to us, but we still had to clear customs and collect baggage, and queue at the toilets! I don't think anyone had wanted to go to the toilet on the plane - too bumpy!<br />
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We all cleared customs really easily and walked out to meet the families, who were so lovely and welcoming. One of the families had bought a lei for one of the lucky girls!<br />
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The ones that were left, just two girls and the three adults, took the chartered bus into the city. It is about 20 minutes drive from the airport, and we were so thrilled to be here, driving on the wrong side of the road, and taking in all the beautiful scenery. It's very green, and quite mountainous. Little villages and houses dotted along the road - some of the houses are painted very bright colours, and the trees and flowers are beautiful. I can't wait to take some photos of the different foliage.<br />
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The harbour in Noumea is so incredibly beautiful. There were lots of families and couples walking along the beach edge. We even saw some swimming.<br />
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We arrived at our hotel on the Bay de Citreon, and are getting ready for our full day ahead. Looking forward to hearing how everyone's first night has gone. We hope to take the kids snorkelling out to this little island later today for the snorkel trail.<br />
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<br />southseaislandhomehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01177834665382411343noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5705111340623895901.post-1854560559716319332014-09-13T22:20:00.000-07:002014-09-13T22:28:23.106-07:00New Caledonia Currency Made SimpleThe countdown is on! Soon I will be joining my son and a small group of other students on a school exchange trip to Noumea! My first trip out of the country since America in 1993, and trust me, I feel like I'm a beginner at overseas travel all over again. Never mind the intrepid traveller I once was through war zones, refugee camps, remote Indonesian islands, the busy streets of Taiwan and Bangkok and Singapore to be followed by University and work in America, I am a different person to that girl of 20 years ago. Now I'm looking through the eyes of a seasoned adult and a Mum.<br />
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New passports, new luggage, new bathing suit and the cellphone has been invented!<br />
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We had to go and order our CFP Francs from the bank early because it takes a week to arrive.<br />
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CFP stands for Comptoirs Francais du Pacifique. It is a French currency especially designed for the French Polynesian territories. On some currency converters it is listed as XPF.<br />
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The highest banknote is 10 000 francs.<br />
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This can get very confusing of course. It might make you feel very rich for a little while to be holding what seems to be a large amount of money in your hands, but in reality, the 10 000 franc is worth approximately (depending on exchange rates) $133.00 New Zealand dollars.<br />
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The New Caledonia Francs are very beautiful!<br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: large;">5000 CFP = $66 (NZ)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: large;">500 CFP = $6 NZD</span></div>
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There is a coin system too, although I don't have any on me at the moment.<br />
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The currency has had an overhaul this year, bringing in new notes - so I am unsure if the following is current.<br />
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CFP Coins - I am rounding these down to the nearest hundred. Eg, 100 CFP is approximately $1.33 NZ, but to keep it simple I'm rounding it down.<br />
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<span style="color: #e69138;">100 CFP = $1 NZD</span></div>
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<span style="color: #e69138;">50 CFP = .60c NZ</span></div>
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<span style="color: #e69138;">20 CFP = .25c NZ</span></div>
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<span style="color: #e69138;">10 CFP = .10c NZ</span></div>
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<span style="color: #e69138;">5 CFP = .05c NZ</span></div>
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<span style="color: #e69138;">1 CFP = .01c NZ</span></div>
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The coin system may be more simple to keep track of, as it is fairly similar in value to our own currency.<br />
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Well, I'm looking forward to spending all that money on French food and souvenirs to bring back for my family!southseaislandhomehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01177834665382411343noreply@blogger.com0