Going Home! (April 2014)

We pulled anchor this morning and moved 6 miles southeast to Resolution Bay. We were met by Johnson, the chief and operator of the Resolution Yacht Club. We were told a truck would be leaving at 10:30am to Lenakel from the Yacht Club to take sailors into customs. When we got to the yacht club there were two other boats there. When you think of a yacht club, you certainly don't picture Resolution Yacht Club. There is no dock, no vhf radio, and it is just one hut with some flags flying from boats that have been there. Around 11:30 a pickup showed up and we all crawled in. It took two hours to cover 25 kilometers across the island to Lenakel. I would hardly call the trails we drove on roads. There is no way a non four wheel drive could have made it. We did drive right by the volcano and it was like driving through mars. The jungle is very dense on Tanna and the Banyon trees were up to 30 feet wide. Customs turned out not to be a big deal but we did have to wait a while. We made it back to Port Resolutoin shortly after 5pm. We have moved another time zone here and are now 9 hours difference from eastern standard time. We found out earlier that there is a dance festival tonight near by. Johnson said it was 10 minutes away and we all decided we would go. The ride turned out to be 55 minutes long on trails worse than the ones to Lenakel. The dance festival was OK but we were all tired and spent just a little over an hour there and hopped back in the pickup. There were 16 people in the pickup going to and from the dance festival. We are all tired and sore from 6 hours in the back of a crowded pickup truck, I got some great pictures though and when I have internet I will load them on facebook. We will be going to the rim of the volcano tomorrow evening so we can see it in daylight and after sundown. Should be quite an experience.

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