Cave of the Moon

Here's one of my favorites: Prince Charles is nambawan pikinini blong Kwin. Just pronounce every letter. The letter A is always pronounced ah and the letter I is always pronounced ee.

From Barry: We anchored for the night at Narovorovo, where there was some protection from the wind and swell moving north up the coast. In the morning, we moved south some more to Sanasom, where I went ashore to arrange a visit to the large sea cave called Cave of the Moon and some petroglyphs. Two young women with children were my guides. A large number of other children also tagged along. One of these young women hoisted her two-year old child onto her hip. The child hung on to her neck with one hand and waved a bush knife the size of a large kitchen knife around her back with the other hand. The National Safety Council in Vanuatu is not very active, if in fact it exists. We are always seeing young children playing with large bush knives. And nobody in Vanuatu uses a life jacket when they are in their dugout canoes or when 20 people are piled into a small fiberglass motorboat with the gunnels nearly awash. The women also guided me to the Cave of the Sun, a smaller cave in the limestone. The locals piled rounded river rocks up in stacks all over the cave. Some spiritual significance? No, probably just getting a quick start making stalagmites, as many stalagmites could be seen having a core of river rocks. Kind of like cultured pearls. Nearby, under an overhanging cliff, there were a large number of petroglyphs. I went back to Sunrise and took my lame wife, Lynne, to the Cave of the Moon in the dinghy. She then waited in the dinghy while I went back to the petroglyphs and Cave of the Sun to take pictures. Afterwards, we punched Sunrise directly into the strong afternoon wind and swell for several hours to reach the calm, protected anchorage at
Asanvari at the very south end of Maewo. There, we found two other yachts, a "yacht club" and a bar. Back to civilization!

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