November 24, 2025
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We played a game "how well do you know me?" (that my girlfriend Sherrie brought me last visit) to pass the time. When we arrived in Port Vila we had to clear customs in Vanuatu and the 5 of us totally confused the officials there! We got passed from agent to agent but finally explained the whole Ship concept, as our residence, to the chief agent and he processed our entry paperwork. We then hunted down a taxi to take us to the Hotel in Port Vila. Below are shots at our Hotel MG COCOMO right on the Emten Lagoon.
Final leg back to ship - flight in the afternoon - Port Vila to Luganville Vanuatu.
Monday April 6th is another travel day for us on our destination to remote Raja Ampat . We started the day at 5am to make our 7am flight from Denpasar, Bali to Sultan Hasanuddin Airport in South Sulawesi for our brief layover to connect with our flight onto Sorong, Indonesia.
Easter turned out to be a travel day for Bosco and I as we were extremely limited in when we could be seen by the Australian Border Control to disembark from the Ship, for a scuba diving adventure in Raja Ampat that I have had reserved, for over 18 months! We flew from Perth to Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia on Easter afternoon.
I have been really excited to get to Fremantle / Perth for my first time. I have had a few friends live here over the years and I have a second cousin, James Murphy, who I have only ever spoken too briefly, over the last 35 years and that I would love to meet in person. Jim is the older brother of Paul who I met up with in Melbourne a few weeks ago.