tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23684051667568625682024-02-18T23:53:58.498-08:00SVSunriseSVSunrisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04355304521119516096noreply@blogger.comBlogger222125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2368405166756862568.post-29597317228666922052013-10-20T12:42:00.000-07:002013-10-20T12:43:05.496-07:00Bad But Good NewsFrom Barry. Lynne was attacked by 6 dogs at the residence where we were to spend the night this past Thursday in Thio. The dogs pulled her to the ground and were biting viciously. I went to her aid and tried to kick the dogs away from Lynne and was myself attacked and pulled to the ground. Fortunately, the woman at the residence got the dogs to retreat after about one minute and before life threatening injuries occurred. Lynne sustained major trauma to her left calf and both arms along with other substantial bites. Lynne's hands and fingers were only slightly injured. We were given first aid at the clinic in Thio immediately. Lynne was taken by a 1 1/2 hour ambulance ride to the hospital in Noumea while I followed in the rental car. She started receiving treatment as soon as she arrived and underwent surgery that night to clean out wounds and get sewn back together. She has not suffered major muscle or nerve damage. My injuries were superficial on the right ankle and shin. Considering the severity of the dog pack attack, we are both very fortunate that the attack did not continue for a significantly longer time, we did not get bitten on the face or neck and the damage is not substantially more severe with major disabilities the rest of our lives. Lynne will have significant permanent scars on her arms and calf.
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<br>Lynne has been well cared for by the medical system in New Caledonia, from first aid, ambulance service, prompt emergency room service, surgical care and recuperative care. The surgeon did such a good job sewing all of the pieces together that he should work on Humpty Dumpty next. Lynne had so much thread sticking out from her body initially that she looked like a porcupine. By comparison, Lurch looks like a normal person. Lynne is able to get up and walk to the toilet and use her arms and fingers. She is still leaking a little blood in a number of places. The surgeon said that Lynne might be able to leave the hospital on Wednesday, but time will tell. The nurse that handles wound care is excellent and Lynne shows no signs of significant infection. A lot of the thread that was initially sticking out of Lynne's body after surgery has now been removed. We speculate that it was being used to wick fluids out of the wounds.
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<br>We have re-booked our flight to Auckland, New Zealand for Thursday morning on the chance that Lynne would be discharged from the hospital Wednesday. Whether we spend any significant time in New Zealand, or fly to California ASAP has not been determined yet. We do know that Lynne will not be on Sunrise anytime soon, if ever again. We are also very fortunate that this incident occurred in New Caledonia near Noumea, which is very First World, and not in Vanuatu, which is definitely Third world.
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<br>While we were at the medical clinic in Thio receiving first aid, two Gendarmes arrived and said that we needed to make a report in Noumea. When I arrived at the Gendarmerie in morning and asked for directions at the recruiting office, they called an appropriate person. Soon, several men in succession arrived and spoke with me. I was asked to come back at 11:00 am when a translator would be available. I returned at that time and was questioned for 3 hours by 3 or more Gendarmes and the translator. At least two of the Gendarmes were from Thio. One was the commander of the Gendarmerie in Thio. They had come to Noumea to take our reports personally. None had the slightest resemblance to Inspector Clouseou in Peter Sellers' famous Pink Panther movies. One of the men I had spoken to earlier came out for the third time, gave me his card and said to call if I thought of anything else or needed anything. His card said that he was the Commander of the Gendarmerie for New Caledonia, Wallis and Futuna. I was given the name of a person in the French-American organization in Noumea to call if we needed any help. I received a call from the US embassy in Fiji asking if we needed any assistance. I was also given the phone number of the Fijian embassy or consulate in New Caledonia to call if we needed any help. Fiji handles US diplomatic affairs in New Caledonia. Then the Gendarmes went to the hospital and spent another 1 1/2 hours taking a report from Lynne. We estimate that they have put in 40 man hours so far dealing with a serious dog bite incident.
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<br>Sunrise has arrived in Opua. The delivery crew said that they had a nice passage for the most part, with no significant problems.
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<br>We have a rental car until Oct 19 when we fly to NZ. Now that all the work has been done to get Simon off, we are starting to have a vacation land touring Grande Terre, New Caledonia.
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<br>Many New Caledonian Crow which is renown for its use of tools, mainly holding sticks in its bill to dig insects out of tree trunks.
<br>1 White-bellied Goshawk.
<br>Horned Parakeet
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<br>We have a rental car until Oct 19 when we fly to NZ. Now that all the work has been done to get Simon off, we are starting to have a vacation land touring Grand Terre, New Caledonia.
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<br>New Caledonia really is beautiful with her clear multi-blue water, sparkling sandy islands and fantastic bird and sea life. The sailing is great in the flat water of the lagoon and everyone speaks English to us when we try to speak French to them.
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<br>Simon arrives on Sunday to take her to Opua, New Zealand. Oh no, here I go again.
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<br>Our trip from Gadji to Ilot Ndo challenged us with narrow passages through surrounding reefs, coral reefs needing avoidance and current pushing us one way then the other. We were rewarded with an island of our own, no signs of humans and multiple shades of turquoise water. There were lots of ospreys, brown noddies, black noddies, silver gulls and the usual tweety birds. After taking this all in from Sunrise, we were shocked to hear a helicopter approaching and were stunned when it landed and 3 people emerged. Barry says I should not use the Kiwi term "whop whops" to describe our location because then see what happens - Whop! Whop! Whop! Here comes a helicopter! He also is guessing that the term might have come from the fact that you need a helicopter whop, whop, whopping to get to such a remote location.
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<br>We walked completely around the island, observing, photographing and oohing and aahing. In the process, we saw innumerable tracks in the sand where snakes had crawled from the sea to the land or back. And then we saw a sea snake on the land. And another. And another. It was "OH WOW, Snake City! Eventually, we counted 14 sea snakes crawling on the land and beach. We don't know why there are so many on land and we haven't seen a one in the water - well, one. Perhaps they are there to lay their eggs. Maybe you could google and let us know. We also found 2 broken Chambered Nautilus shells and some turtles while on Sunrise.
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<br>This afternoon we snorkeled one of the best reefs ever. There was a 30' drop off, healthy hard and soft coral and beau coup de fish and other critters. The water temperature is a bit cold even when wearing our spring wet suits. I,Lynne, have the same O'Neill wetsuit I've had for the last 25 years and, despite lots of use, it is still in great shape. Also, my preferred mask is still the 25 year old Sherwood. We saw a shark, a number of giant clams (including a monster, 14 inches wide with a bright purple mantle one, a first), a huge Crown-of-Thorns seastar, and some really big Napoleans and groupers. There were some large violet sea urchins with very long, thin spines and bright turquoise markings on the shell. There were red sea urchins with long fat spines the diameter of your little finger and nobby red shells. There was also a most unusual sea urchin with very long, thin white spines interspersed with shorter brown spines the diameter of a needle. Nearing the end of our snorkel, I commented to Lynne that there were absolutely no mollusks other than the giant clams. Swimming back to the dinghy across the shallow sandy top of the reef, there were the mollusks, both alive and empty shells. There were at least 10 different types. One was a beautiful miter about 2 ½ inches long with a clean, colorful exterior. Since it was alive, we put it back.
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<br>The last few days, we have been in the middle of a high pressure zone, so there is very clear air and no or just a few clouds. That means that we have been able to see the "Green Flash" every night. By setting the camera to take pictures two stops under-exposed, the "Green Flash" photographs nicely. But when we have used the same camera to take a video, the exposure setting is normal and the green color washes out and hardly shows.
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<br>We found a mixed flock of about 30 Pacific Golden Plovers and Ruddy Turnstones resting on a rock/islet near Sunrise. Our dinner time dinghy ride was beautiful scenery of coral caves, bridges, coves and mushroom-shaped rocks. For sure, Baie de Gadji is Osprey City! We have great Osprey photos and, also, videos of the sharksuckers feasting on pieces of croissants being thrown into the water.
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<br>A food speciality on the Ile des Pins is land snail. It has a pretty shell about 4 or 5 inches long. I bought them "already prepared" in the shell because that sounded like a new taste treat that we could handle. After cooking we discovered that the whole entire snail was still in there with antenna, lungs, guts, everything. We hope the fish enjoyed the escargot . Ditto the national dish, bougna. When it was served to us it was prepared with black pepper which both of us detest. The only other food news is that, because it was my birthday yesterday, I put sparkling purple sprinkles on my potato salad.
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<br>Sea is glassy. Sky is cloudless. Beautiful! Leaving about 1100 for Uamaeo/Oamaeo Bay W side of Ile des Pins.
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<br>OK. Off to Ilot Moro to birdwatch
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style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></span></p> SVSunrisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04355304521119516096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2368405166756862568.post-42949390823314845562013-09-24T01:35:00.001-07:002013-09-24T01:35:32.620-07:00Ile des Pins<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> <p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:major-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:major-latin;color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1; mso-themetint:242">Excellent birding opportunities on Ile des Pins and we have added about 10 lifers (birds never seen before in our life). <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Interesting history of convicts being shipped from France and imprisoned here.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>When we first arrived the skies were cloudy and rainy and we certainly didn’t agree that the Ile des Pins is the most beautiful island in the world.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Today, however, it was clear and sunny and “stunningly beautiful” just as the books say.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>What a difference the sun makes.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:major-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:major-latin;color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1; mso-themetint:242"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:major-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:major-latin;color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1; mso-themetint:242">The bay where we are has internet.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>It is stunningly slow and irritating. <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Most of the pictures that I’ve tried to put in our blog or put in Facebook have failed by timing out.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>I agree with Barry – we were happier when we had no 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<br>New Caledonian Myzomela - Ile Ouen
<br>New Caledonian/Goliath Imperial Pigeon - Ile Ouen
<br>Red-vented Bulbul in marina
<br>Silver Gull same as Red-billed Gull in New Zealand
<br>House Sparrow in Noumea and marina
<br>Black Noddy 1000s on passage from Ile Ouen flying, diving, fishing, sitting.
<br>Brown Noddy 100s on same passage diving, fishing.
<br>Great Crested Terns at sea and resting on reef - as in all South Pacific
<br>Gray-eared/Dark Brown Honeyeater - Ile Ouen
<br>Osprey at sea, fishing
<br>Common Waxbill in city
<br>Purple Swamphen, same as Pukeko in New Zealand
<br>Rainbow Lorikeets - Noumea Central Park, same as Vanuatu
<br>White-faced Heron - same as New Zealand
<br>Spotted Dove in Noumea
<br>Fan-tailed Gerygone - Ile Ouen and same as Vanuatu
<br>Common Myna in Noumea
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<br>Also turtles, very large. A sea snake in Port Moselle harbor,
<br>There are many more sea birds here than in Vanuatu. Our theory is that in New Caledonia the French have a military presence and keep out the illegal Southeast Asian fishing fleets. More fish equals more sea birds. We see the war ships patrolling off south Grand Terre.
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<br>Our sail from Grande Terre to Ile des Pins was fast, smooth and lovely. More turtles here and the yacht, "The Rose" which we met in Surrarow.
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<br>Our Port Moselle Marina neighbors are fun and interesting and from all over the world. The younger couple on our port side are from Finland and the British Nick and Kathy on Impala are on our starboard. We have been with Impala many times in Vanuatu and we enjoy their company.
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<br>Saturday we walked the capital city of Noumea and toured the New Caledonia Archives Library where we learned about the nickel mines. Nickel mining is the big deal here in New Caledonia.
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<br>Half the people are Melanesian Kanaks, and the other half mostly French. The Kanaks, like the niVans, are into Rastafarian/reggae music, garb and hair-dos. When we missed the last bus down the hill, a Kanak man stopped and generously gave us a ride into the city. He also generously offered us a joint asking "Marijuana?" It was the only word besides "merci" that we had in common but it is amazing how well charades and pointing works.
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<br>The bad news about Noumea is that it stinks of sewer and cigarette smoke and the people speak French. The good news is that if we try to speak French, people will speak English back, I think because it is less painful than trying to understand our French.
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<br>As soon as we got boat chores done in Noumea we left for a beautiful little islet just 6 miles south of the city. It smells good and is quiet and peaceful - aahhh.
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