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New Caledonia Cruising and Traveling

Most people have heard of new caledonia - or nouvelle caledonie as it is called in French. La nouvelle calédonie is located just 780 nautical miles east of Brisbane, Australia.

Setting up new caledonia holidays is confusing because the majority of websites about New Caledonia are in French and those which are not tend to concentrate solely on noumea new caledonia - and especially hotels in Anse Vata noumea new caledonia. Travel to new caledonia begins with finding out about flights to new caledonia and then, if the traveller wants to go beyond Noumea, also finding out about domestic flights in New Caledonia. New Caledonia visas are not required for most tourists, but it's best to check to be sure because travellers from some countries (like the US) - can only stay in New Caledonia for 30 days without getting a tourist visa before arriving.

The Rocket Guide to New Caledonia is a virtual new caledonia map ( or carte nouvelle caledonie ) that shows all of New Caledonia from space. But the CD Rom travel guide to New Caledonia is far more than just a map. It is a virtual atlas of tourism information about New Caledonia with over 700 tourism features located precisely on the satellite and aerial images. You can, for example, find any new caledonia hotel with just two clicks, plus there is a summary about new caledonia hotels and resorts that helps anyone plan a new caledonia vacation. It's not easy to plan new caledonia vacations - especially for people who don't speak French.The first step in planning a New Caledonia Vacation is deciding what KIND of a vacation you would like. There are several possibilities.

Anse Vata, in Noumea, is the International travel centre of New Caledonia. This is where you'll find the big Noumea hotels and resorts, fine restaurants, and a zillion things to do. Within a very small area - you can stroll along the waterfront promenade from Le Meridien to Le Mocambo in about 15 minutes and within this area are all the major hotels, all the New Caledonia conference venues, the majority of the New Caledonia restaurants, the best beaches, the Aquarium, shopping malls, Noumea weddings coordinators, new caledonia tours agencies, and casinos.

But there is so much more to New Caledonia than Noumea and any visitor to New Caledonia should consider a short 20 minute domestic flight to the Ile des Pins (Isle of Pines). Isle of Pines New Caledonia hotels, resorts and other accommodation range from very expensive to camping. The Rocket Guide to New Caledonia shows all the accommodation of Isle of Pines on high resolution photographs, both from the air and on the ground - including 3D virtual reality tours of many of the resorts.

Noumea is also the gateway to the world's largest lagoon and second largest Barrier Reef. New Caledonia fishing boats,
New Caledonia boat rentals, yacht charters and boat trips
, new caledonia diving trips, are all organized in Noumea and all of the details on how to do this and who to contact are on the Rocket Guide to New Caledonia.

The Loyalty Islands are only a 40 minute domestic flight from Magenta airport in Noumea. There are three Loyalty Islands, Ouvea, Lifou, and Mare. Lifou is actually larger than the island of Tahiti and has only a couple of thousand people living on it. These are great holiday destinations and well worth a visit.

One excellent and relatively inexpensive way to discover New Caledonia is Fly/Drive New Caledonia holidays essentially a round the island tour of Grande Terre - where the first stop is a new caledonia car rental agency. Or perhaps a new caledonia tours agency to arrange a round-the-island safari. Rental car new caledonia are only slightly more expensive than in Australia, so fly/drive vacations combined with camping, is the least expensive (and often the most rewarding) way to travel to new caledonia. The Rocket Guide to Vanuatu CD has a special Fly/Drive holiday section with road maps, camping sites and New Caledonia accommodation, hotels and resorts on Grande Terre outside of Noumea.

On the Rocket Guide website you can even check on the long term new caledonia weather forecasts - because the weather in new caledonia makes all the difference between a good vacation and a great vacation.

New Caledonia travel info is available at travel information points throughout New Caledonia. You can quickly get information on most of the essential things you need to know for a New Caledonia holiday - such as the current rate of exchange of new caledonia money, the local new caledonia time and business hours, information on New Caledonia Internet cafés and New Caledonia Mobile phones - GSM New Caledonia,

There are a wealth of activities for visitors to New Caledonia - the French people of New Caledonia adore sports of all kinds and are very active. Which means that visitors will find all the facilities they could wish to enjoy themselves. For some sporting ideas see Sporting Events New Caledonia,New Caledonia Horseback Riding andNew Caledonia golf courses.

If you would like to see some photos of New Caledonia you might wish to visit the Rocket Guide to New Caledonia online photo librarys. These are divided into the following libraries of professional stock photo images (available for free downloading)

Cruising guide to New Caledonia - Guide Nautique Nouvelle Caledonie

The satellite image approach to understanding New Caledonia is especially useful to people who wish to visit New Caledonia aboard cruising yachts of people who with to charter a yacht in New Caledonia. The New Caledonia cruising guide shows detailed information on new caledonia anchorages new caledonia marinas,noumea yacht services, yacht charter noumea, superyacht services new caledonia, new caledonia weather and new caledonia ports.

High resolution satellite and aerial photography provide detailed nautical charts of new caledonia These nautical maps of new caledonia
create a unique sailing guide for new caledonia that opens new possibilities for new caledonia yachting and yacht charter new caledonia .

The guide is in both English and French, with information on location bateau nouvelle caledonie, location bateau noumea, mouillages nouvelle caledonie, guide mouillage nouvelle caledonie

 

Navigation Tables for the Log of the Moira

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Log Book 1 Voyage from Taiwan to Australia

1.   Maiden Voyage with Pirates
2.   The Dragon and the Pearl
3.   Pirates, Pirates, Everywhere
4.   Typhoon
5.   A Philippine Hernia
6.   Through the Philippines 
7.   Island Hopping in the Philippines
8.   This Magic Sea
9.   Surprise in Palau
10. Crazy on the Equator
11. Squalling in the Doldrums
12. Of Hermits and Reefs
13. You Won't Believe This
14. Headwinds to the Solomons
15. The Three Sisters of the Solomons
16. The Fourth Sister
17. Paradise
18. The Medical Sorcerer
19. The Holy Mama
20. Witch Doctor to Windward
21. Mindscapes
22. Mind Games
23. Mind Survival Training
24. Cachalot Neural Traces
25. Downwind to Oz
26. Evolution Said the Whale,
            Say What? Said the Cat
27. Watershed of Evolution
28. Kaleidoscopic Mana Mania
29. The One Who Thinks
30. Kaleidoscope the World
31. The Third Person
32. I Knew This Would Happen

Log Book 2 has two parts. The first part is in Papua New Guinea.

1.  Pearls, Pearls, Pearls.
2.   What Am I Doing Here?
3.   Black, White and Grey in Paradise
4.   Dubious Mission to Tagula
5.   Words Appart
6.   Rascals in Paradise
7.   Pearl Diving in Doga Sui Sui Pass.
8.   American Spies
9.   The Giant Man Eating Octopus
10. The Great Ebony Caper
11. The Uplift Factor
12. Planned Failure
13. A Tangled Web
14. Opposition
15. Midnight Sun
16. Lapi in the Isles of Love
17. Unchartered Waters
18. Unnamed Island
19. The Isles of Love
20. Earthlings
21. Nothing Atoll
22. Super-Organisms in Time Lapse
23. People of the Sea
24. Coral Fires Burning
25. Symbiotic Coral Megabeasts
26. Symbiosis
27. A Handy Experiment
28. Destiny in Action
29. Keops and Kaleidoscopes
30. Poisoned and Dying in Sidea
31. Dire Straits
32. PNG Update

Part 2 is in Australia:

1.   The Ancient Respected Oracle
2.   The Eye of the Dolphin
3.   The Sydney Dolphin Cult
4.   Water Wings
5.   The Sydney Dolphin Connection
6.   When Dolphins and Lions Lie Down Together
7.   Do you hear us, Man?
8.   Starlight Starbright
9.   Humans, Hear Us.
10. This Means War
11. Dolphin Wooing
12. Vote for Freedom
13. On the Campaign Trail
14. Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
15. The Oracle's Prophesy Comes True
16. Dolphin Rally
17. Get the Message, Mate?
18. The Three Sisters of Fate in Sydney
19. Endless Horizons
20. Dolphin Update   

Log Book 3 Voyage from Elizabeth Reef to

New Caledonia, Fiji, Wallis, Samoa, and American Samoa.

1.   In the Arms of the Megabeast
2.   Caverns of Seas Remembering
3.   Coral Uplift
4.   Caldoche in Paradise
5.   Change in Direction
6.   Patterns of Behavior
7.   Secret Services and Mind Traps
8.   Let there be no Walls
9.   The Magic Lantern
10. Quadralogic
11. Tracking
12. A Fold in Time
13. Re-Binding
14. Malolo Lailai
15. The Crown of Thorns Strikes Again
16. Yachtus yachtus
17. The Error of Expectations
18. Watching the Corals Grow
19. Concepts in Context
20. Tide Breath
21. Sea Speaks
22. Beat to the Center of the Sea
23. Mid Pacific Prise du Courant
24. Charting This Magic Sea
25. Tellurianism
26. Animation, Gaia, and Smokey the Bear
27. Mana from Tibet
28. Om Mani Padma Hum
29. This Living Island
30. The Observer

 

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