We are back in front of the Beachfront Resort enjoying all their friendly services - laundry, trash disposal, hot showers, toilets, mail delivery and meals if we want. But what I enjoy most are the pictures in my imagination of my dad being here during World War II on a ship delivering personnel to this base in the South Pacific. I can just see him as a handsome young man ferrying troops from the very spot where we are anchored to the shore where the Beachfront sits now. He said he did not stay in Luganville but came here to deliver personnel. When he was here, Vanuatu was called the New Hebrides and sometimes 100 ships moored here. During the three years until 1945 half a million military (according to Lonely Planet) were stationed here waiting to go to battle against the Japanese advance, especially in the Solomons.
And, yes, I got a very mild case of the cold from Lanova Bay and have now passed it on to Barry. Aside from that and my bruised or broken toe, we are hale and hearty and raring to go.
Last night, in our favorite Chinese restaurant, we met a couple from US & UK who are living up by Wunpuku in the interior. Go to www.edenhope.org to get the flavor of our conversation with them. Very interesting.
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