Havannah was smooth and absolutely beautiful. Our only adverse condition was a slight bit of fog which limited our ability to see the different colors of water (very helpful when traversing reefs because the different colors indicate depths, brown being a very bad color to see in front of the boat.) I am sure the pass can be incredible under the right conditions; at one point we actually saw 8.9 kts of GPS speed when we were only going 5.0 kts through the water. That was at the end of the flood when the current is lightest.

We wound our way 40 miles through islets and reefs before finally turning around the last point and into Port Moselle, Noumea. Sophie popped her head out from under the dodger and exclaimed, "Finally, some sky scrapers again!" We look forward to exploring this "Paris of the Pacific."