What's the best thing about living on a yacht? Find out in this week's New Caledonia travel Vlog, as we also reveal many cruisers most stressful moment, befo...

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I think if it canvassed a bunch of

cruisers about what are the downsides of

cruising one of them would definitely be

being stuck in a really expensive

country for months on end affecting

repeaters to your yacht oh it can hurt

but the flip side to that is that you're

living on your own home on your mobile

adventure platform so basically you can

up sticks whenever you feel like it and

that is gonna be the number one bonus to

this lifestyle everywhere you go

you're taking your home with you and you

can move it any way you like all you

need to do is raise your sails and

you're heading on at the bay we're but

there is a slight matter of customs and

immigration to get around

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so we're just hitting into the markets

to pick up our stores of fruit and

before we head off to find erotic it's

pretty good here it's pretty expensive

though and we're a bit late so hopefully

we can still grab some some goodies with

prices for food and internet in New

Caledonia far exceeding our modest

budget we decided to make tracks to

Vanuatu Dez was just strolling me out

some cash we spend about $800 Australian

dollars a week I'm just freaking

here brisance and avocados about $9 so

yeah we're trying to be as mindful as we

can

the port Mosel markets have got a wide

variety of produce with a lot being

imported from New Zealand or Australia

which did seem strange actually for a

country with such vert are looking soils

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as you can see it takes us a few days to

load up just move our little bags we

should have brought the Charlie with the

provisioning done we wandered through

the town square on our way to

immigration to check out of the country

ok so we've got a little lift for a

really lovely rich man who I didn't

understand much of what he was saying

but he was fabulous and he was very

excited about Vanuatu so we're very

excited about Vanuatu but we just got

our poor clearance from customs now we

just have to go and find the

Harbormaster and get our final clearance

from him and we can fuel up and take off

yeah baby so it's quite good they give

you if you go into the port Mosel marina

they give you a map of what you need to

go to check out because there's three or

four different places that you need to

attend and it is a little bit tricky

because it's not written in English

Adventure you know so far so good yeah

yeah there are extremely helpful it's

quite funny because I'm just going up

the hill I just we just learnt our

school time French what I did and pour

down and he didn't learn any French so

he's a bit lost but I'm not totally lost

I'm in Vanuatu so I have to say that

having a little bit of of schools learnt

French who's been very handy it's quite

funny it's quite comical trying to

figure out other peoples languages and

what people are saying but you can pick

up words and sort of melt things

together radio we're at the port

captains so I think this is the last one

we have to do or not Stan yeah maybe

how's your French I'm thinking that's it

okay the port captain was a super guy

and he's given us permission to just do

a quick stopover at the Lord his it

should be really good we were stoked to

have been given permission to stop at

the loyalty islands which we heard so

many good things about so we were up

early to refuel and make the most of the

day okay so we just passing through what

is called a Havana canal it's an area of

a lot of water being pushed through

various reefs as we sort of punch

ourselves out from the land and away

from the land so we're time to run and

how we play this as we go for an

outgoing tide so that the water will be

flatter and the tide is pushing us out

through the passage so we've got

everything flowing in the same direction

that we are going so the water should be

nice and flat and giving us that push

out through the canal that we're looking

for if you're going on an incoming tide

you're what you are what you'll have is

water or waves coming at you as you're

traveling out so it can make for a much

more bumpy ride and especially with this

current running at four knots so we want

to make as much use of that current as

possible and help us ping us out through

the reefs so that's just how we play it

and we did where we found that a bit of

a winner

strategy here my bad

is knowledge it's okay so just the key

so there you go so you can see that

current light ahead you can see where

the water is quite flat minutes just

waves and waves and whitewater we're

just about to sail through it and we

interesting to see whether it slows us

down or speed this up that current

slowed us from 9 knots to 4 and then the

wind died out so we pulled out the hits

all for our run to leave food

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it's way omerta about one and a half

miles away from us slashing oh well I'm

gonna try catch this

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this is well

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it's just the very beginning of Wales in

next

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wouldn't

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the winds picked up so we lift the

whales behind as we hoon dong towards

our destination

we're having an absolutely corcoran

unbelievable

it went been a little bit stronger than

we thought it might be and we've been

cranking along at 7 and 8 knots so yeah

we're actually only got about 60 miles

to go it looks like we're going to

arrive at about two o'clock in the

morning and we'd sort of scheduled

ourselves to arrive about sort of 7

o'clock so we wanted to slow the old

girl down in the middle of night

we won't quite know where we're dropping

anchor

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when you make another carry perfect

passage food yeah baby

I'm comparing oh yeah baby oh yeah

update from the hell yeah when it's

fresh into a bit 25 not so we're playing

along pretty good

unfortunately we kind of get into here

three or four es bit too soon so we're

going to have to get in behind leefoo

and hope to for a little while and wait

till daylight it's sort of all bombing

country in there so

other than that it's pretty good we got

a full moon in I'm not sure he I may be

sleeping down there that boat you're

talking like crazy but we're flowing

mystery vessel off the port port side

there no navigation lights bit

concerning you don't really know which

way they're going to or fro or whichever

with sort of a minimum requirement is

that

port and starboard port between the red

light on the left-hand side of a vessel

white on the stern say the basic the

basics of it that you at a glance you

know which way the vessels heading at

all time so anyway they've slipped away

so that's pretty good anyway

I'll give you an update later on well

good morning it's about seven o'clock in

the morning and we actually arrived here

in the Bay of Centel at about two

o'clock in the morning it's a really

really wide bay and there wasn't enough

when to put Sarah in home - and we

didn't want to come in and anchor in the

dark and an unknown Anchorage so we just

drifted along at about 1:00 not for

those few hours and Darren caught some

sleep and and I was on watch it was

pretty funny at one stage he dived just

before coming in here and it was

cranking it must have been about 25 30

knots and I woke up I was asleep on my

head it was pretty funny

you got a little bit out of control

there but we've got it under control but

yeah what an absolutely gorgeous babe

there's coconut trees on the beach this

is magic cliffs which I'll show you

later on but for now we are exhausted

and we're going to go

join us next week as we find a village

perched atop some rugged cliffs get a

guided tour and meet the locals

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