Aore Island to Luganville, Santo, Vanuatu.

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Miriam

Miriam

            Aore Island to Luganville, Santo. By chance we found ourselves staying on Aore Island and had met someone who had done the crossing which was one of the ‘Pacific Island swims’. He was keen to help us but didn’t want to do it. Mim and Will were in good shape but Will had caught a bug so Mim and I planned to do Aore to Santo accompanied by 3 kayaks when the tide was slack. In fact the tide was quite strong (timing a bit out but it was getting dark) and dragged us away from the landing site at Unity Park. We hadn’t bargained on jellyfish but they found us. We got to the other side in 1hr 7m and 1hr 30m which was fantastic. We paddled back in the fading light for drinks on the veranda of our chalet.