We have just had two qiet days. Yesterday we had a grey day with few small showers, so not much we could do outside. However between some cleaning, cooking, napping we had a little bit of spare time for fishing! At least tried ! After three months we can confirm there are no fish in Vanuatu. Except for the Dugong spotted this morning by Andrew. Today we had sunshine with our breakfast and we were hopping for napping on deck after lunch ( we are desperate to get our sun tan back! hahaha). After a little sunbathing we did some more exploring and had a look around another wreck, then some snorkelling.
We did some research on Vanuatu and found out that today was Independence Day:First visited by Europeans in 1606 by the Spanish. They named it La Austrialia. They didn’t get on with the natives. They didn’t stay long and never returned.Next was Louis de Bougainville in 1768, then James Cook in 1770. It became The New Hebrides. The New Hebrides had a joint British and French administration and colonisation. On 30th July 1980 The New Hebrides gained independence and changed it’s name to The Republic of Vanuatu (Our Land Forever). Vanuatu has a population of approximately 40,000 spread over the 82 islands.
