{"id":1419,"date":"2009-10-04T03:58:45","date_gmt":"2009-10-04T03:58:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/?p=1419"},"modified":"2025-10-01T16:55:51","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T16:55:51","slug":"new-photos-from-new-caledonia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/?p=1419","title":{"rendered":"New photos from New Caledonia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are a few pictures which we hope capture some of the beauty of New Caledonia.  We spent two weeks island hopping  &#8211; well, actually &#8211; sand spit hopping, as some of the islands we stopped at weren&#8217;t more than a large sand spit.  Beautiful clear water, white sand beaches, sunshine and blue skies. Our friends Karin and Jean-Francois, of the catamaran Intiaq, were with us for some of the time and we hope to meet up with them again soon.   We are in Noumea, the capitol city, but will be heading out tomorrow for some more island hopping.<\/p>\n<p>  L. and M.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Jean-Francois and Karin of Intiaq at Ile Ouen\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2557\/3974211856_bc9d1206f9.jpg\" title=\"Jean-Francois and Karin of Intiaq at Ile Ouen\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jean-Francois and Karin of Intiaq at Ile Ouen<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Laura, Jean-Francois and Karin at Ile Ouen\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2523\/3973445483_c0c2d41bb1.jpg\" title=\"Laura, Jean-Francois and Karin at Ile Ouen\" width=\"500\"  height=\"375\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Laura, Jean-Francois and Karin at Ile Ouen<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Mark at Ilot Mbe Kouen\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3528\/3974213400_9c6eb27dd1.jpg\" title=\"Mark at Ilot Mbe Kouen\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mark at Ilot Mbe Kouen<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Self-portrait: Ilot Mbe Kouen\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2672\/3974213488_8083f20659.jpg\" title=\"Self-portrait: Ilot Mbe Kouen\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Self-portrait: Ilot Mbe Kouen<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Beach at Ilot Mbe Kouen\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2443\/3974213596_887a376c0b.jpg\" title=\"Beach at Ilot Mbe Kouen\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Beach at Ilot Mbe Kouen<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Beach at Ilot Tenia\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2592\/3974214248_10a8e5a600.jpg\" title=\"Beach at Ilot Tenia\"  width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Beach at Ilot Tenia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Sabbatical III at anchor off of Ile Puen\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3435\/3973447275_69baeff9ef.jpg\" title=\"Sabbatical III at anchor off of Ile Puen\" width=\"500\"  height=\"375\"  \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sabbatical III at anchor off of Ile Puen<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Mangroves on the shore of Ile Puen\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2445\/3973447895_38efbe520d.jpg\" title=\"Mangroves on the shore of Ile Puen\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mangroves on the shore of Ile Puen<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Dinghy (foreground) and Sabbatical III (background) at Ile Puen\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2510\/3973448029_16597f21a0.jpg\" title=\"Dinghy (foreground) and Sabbatical III (background) at Ile Puen\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dinghy (foreground) and Sabbatical III (background) at Ile Puen<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Hiking in the hills of Ile Puen\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2467\/3973448443_f11dfa4249.jpg\" title=\"Hiking in the hills of Ile Puen\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hiking in the hills of Ile Puen<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ile Puen\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2523\/3973448787_5874b2f58e.jpg\" title=\"Ile Puen\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ile Puen<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Laura with nautilus shell, Ile Hugon\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2445\/3974217310_4f89fe45c9.jpg\"  title=\"Laura with nautilus shell, Ile Hugon\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Laura with nautilus shell, Ile Hugon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 381px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Sea snake on the beach at Ile Tenia\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2483\/3973449451_5600b14dac.jpg\" title=\"Sea snake on the beach at Ile Tenia\" width=\"381\" height=\"500\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sea snake on the beach at Ile Tenia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are a few pictures which we hope capture some of the beauty of New Caledonia. We spent two weeks island hopping &#8211; well, actually &#8211; sand spit hopping, as some of the islands we stopped at weren&#8217;t more than a large sand spit. Beautiful clear water, white sand beaches, sunshine and blue skies. Our &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/?p=1419\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;New photos from New Caledonia&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[28,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-caledonia-2009","category-other"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}