It was a lively sail from Lifou to Grand Terre. After ducking inside the outer reef we overnighted in Baie da Kouakoue before heading to Baie de Prony and winding our way up to Baie du Carenage. This is completely different scenery – mountains with deep gashes exposing bright red soil, rocks, deep dark water. Apart from the colour of the soil it reminded me of parts of Pittwater in Aus.
Taking advantage of a very still, peaceful early morning, Paul took the SUP out and was paddling over a shallow, muddy section of the bay when he noticed a shape just lying on the bottom just underneath him. A shape as long as his board and definitely a shark – either a lemon or bull shark we think. It was definitely a breathe in sharply and “please don’t let me fall in just now” moment for him.
There are a number of walking tracks in the area so Ro and Paul hiked out to see some waterfalls and later we took a picnic over to some tepid “hot springs”. It was a lovely peaceful spot.
