Ile des pins

Salut!

Je prend enfin le temps de mettre quelques images sur notre sejour a l'ile des pins, qui etait paradisiaque.

Here's a few pictures from our trip to the Isle of Pines, quite a paradise!!

Tout d'abord, il a fallu prendre le ferri, le BETICO, qui est repute pour rendre les passagers malades... Eh bien on y a pas echappe. Andrea et moi avons tous les deux ete malades. Et vu que le bateau entier etait malade, inutile de rentrer dans les details mais la traversee a ete assez eprouvante.

We started off on the ferry, the Betico, infamously known for making its passengers sick... It lived up to its reputation.. Eric and I were both sick... twice. Remember the Fast Cats on the BC Ferries? Think those but faster and much rockier crossing. I had the song 'If you're going through hell, keep on movin...' stuck in my head the entire crossing. Though the crossing was beyond rough, it was well worth it once we arrived. Une fois arrives, petite pause en terrasse de l'hotel pour se remettre de ses emotions.

Once we arrived, I plunked myself down on the little terrace outside our room until the wave motion in my tummy settled down enough to walk to the beach.... which was a 30 second walk from our hotel room.




Il suffisait de marcher 30 secondes depuis notre chambre pour voir ceci:

Incroyable plage de reve dans la baie de Kuto avec le sable le plus fin que je n'ai jamais vu... On dirait de la farine!

The Bay of Kuto is probably the most beautiful beach either of us have ever seen... the sand is like flour! Didn't take us long to get to the beach to enjoy the views...

Instants detente

De l'autre cote de l'hotel, la baie de Kanumera. La petite ile derriere est sacree et il est interdit de grimper dessus.

Just next to the hotel in the Bay of Kanumera... The giant rock in the background is a sacred rock and its forbidden to climb it. There is a trial going on right now in Noumea about two brothers who killed a japonese tourist who climbed the rock five years ago. Quite a gruesome tale for the poor girl. Unfortunately the 'do not climb' sign is written only in French.

Au centre de l'image, une arraignee. On en trouve de tres beaux specimens sur l'ile.

On our walk back to the hotel we found a HUGE spider in a tree (they have lots of gigantic spiders here)

Autre pause detente.

Taking a pause to enjoy and support the local economy (aka brewery)...

On est partis faire un tour en pirogue dans la baie d'upi et sa superbe eau turquoise:

On our voyage on a traditional sailing canoe in Upi Bay:

Droles de caillous en plein milieu de la baie d'upi. Ce sont en fait d'ancien recifs de corail.

There are lots of huge rocks in the bay of Upi that are ancient coral reefs.

Traversee de la jungle vers la baie d'oro:

Walking through the jungle near the Baie of Oro:

Une piscine naturelle incroyable: Au fond de l'image, il y a la pleine mer avec un tombant de 40 metres. La piscine fait 3-4 metres de fond avec des centaines de poissons: perroquets, clowns, dawas, demoiselles, loches, balistes, etc .. un veritable aquarium.
Andrea au fond.

Pause cocktail au meridien avec la piscine sur la plage...

La vie est dure :) Life is good!


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