Adding weight shedding load

Well, Gentle Readers, when we last parted, I was grumpy. From sleeping in the afternoon. Never nice. But I improved.

Mana and his bus whisked us into town, a little boat whisked us over to here:

http://www.accommodation-photos-vanuatu.com/Accommodation%20in%20Efate%20and%20Port%20Vila%20Vanuatu/Iririki%20Island%20Resort%20Port%20Vila%20Vanuatu/slides/iririki_helicopter-iririki_view_north.html

We walked from the landing (the one jutting out on "this" side of Iririki Island, turned left and settled just above the beach you can see. Where we tucked in the gins and tonics, mangoes madnesses and Tusker (remember, Tusker blong yumi) before ordering:

Margaret & Viki: Seafood platter for 2 (they managed to finish it but looked a bit like startled dugongs by the end of it);
Charles: Duck curry with raw quail's egg. Pronounced excellent.
Baz: A green curry chicken, hot, delicious.
JDW: Vanuatu beef fillet on mash potato. Hmmmm. THey say their beef is the "best" but it isn't. Not really.

Interestingly, and I am not complaining here just being interested, the meal cost more per head than the Chinese in Brisbane (or anywhere in Gabs). :-) We're tourists!

Oh dear, the Macarena is playing us in to breakfast.

SoI'llsayveryquickly that the whole of Port Vila plunged into darkness just as we were leaving Irikiri and it was all A Very Big Adventure Involving Singing Christmas Carols on a Ferry.

Seeya all.
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