South Pacific Islands

Lifou is another tender port. Just like Dravuni Island, Fiji, our plan is to make this a beach day and maybe see what local tours are offered from the pier. There are supposed to be a few sites withing walking distance from where we come ashore.

Port Vila is located on the island of Efate in Vanuatu. We were woken up at 6am by the ship’s captain with an announcement that we were unable to make port due to high winds and seas. So we have another sea day as we sail onwards to New Caledonia.

See all of our photos from Druvuni Island Fiji. Dravuni Island is a tender port. It was so very hot here today. Our guide in Suva has an uncle that was the village chief here and were were invited to lunch but he never showed up so we just took a few pictures and returned […]

See all of our photos from Suva Fiji Today booked private tour to explore the area surrounding Suva, Fiji. We started our day visiting a local village for an authentic lunch, although it was a bit early, some authentic Fiji dances including a fire dance, and a kava ceremony. Next we drove across the island […]

See all of our photos for Apia, Samoa. Yes, we are a day ahead of our friends in North America as we crossed the international date line yesterday and just skipped Feb 11, 2026. We will get an extra day (or the same day 2x) when returning from Japan to Alaska in a couple of […]

See all our photos from Tahiti. Our last day in French Polynesia on the Island of Tahiti. We once again had a car rented for the day and drove the ring road. Tahiti was much, much busier than the previous islands we had visited, including Hawaii, especially on the east side of the island. Our day […]

See all our photos from Mo’orea. Mo’orea is a tender port and unfortunately, there is very little available where the ship docks. As we didn’t have an excursion planned, we decided the best views were from the ship anchored in ‘Ōpūnohu Bay and just enjoy the quiet ship.

See all our photos from Raiatea. We rented a Toyota Hilux truck for the day and drove around the island. Our first stop was a pearl farm. Karen bought a pearl bracelet for about $60. It is very unique, all the pearls are differently shaped, some have colored stripes and others have small pearls growing from the […]