Playing Tour Guides

We had a lovely day out being tour guides for friends from Te Awamutu, Massey and Jayne Lynch. Martyn and Massey used to work together at Eagle Air. They came into Port Vila for the day on the Pacific Explorer cruise ship, and we enjoyed showing them some of our favourite places in and around Port Vila.

The cruise ships are massive! The container ship wharf has recently been rebuilt and is big enough for one cargo ship at a time. The cruise ship wharf is still in need of upgrading.

We showed them the markets downtown, then headed out of town to see the bigfala banyan tree. 

We checked out turtles at the Reef Zoological, the abandoned resort, and stopped for lunch at the Eden on the River, where our lovely guide Ruth told us lots about the uses of the plants. (In Massey's back pack there was an essential supply of Marmite for us.  We ran out of Marmite several weeks ago.  Massey agreed to bring us a jar.  The backpack is where the jar stayed as they sailed away at the end of the day.  Bother we forgot to collect it from him 😂)

I couldn't resist this beautiful water-sculpted log.

We got them back to the ship right on time, and they sailed off into the sunset. They really enjoyed their day, and so did we. (this is not actually their ship, but this is what it would have looked like 😉)

It's a shame about the Marmite, but Jayne left her sunglasses behind. We will hold them for ransom until we return home, and then do a ceremonial exchange 😁