Baie du Prony New Caledonia
Grande Terre is New Caledonia's largest island; a 350km long, thin mountainous fish swimming in the deep blue south Pacific fringed by the world's largest coral reef reserve. On the southeastern tip, Prony Bay cuts into the island like the fish's mouth.
On my 74th birthday Freddy and I decided to trek to the waterfall on the Carenage River, Grande Terre, New Caledonia. The mission was to create a sphere image in the pool at the base of the waterfall - above and below the water - right where the w...
New Caledonia has some really exotic wildflowers and nearly every time Freddy and I go trekking we see flowers we have never seen before. Of course some flowers are old friends and appear every year in the same areas. Freddy especially likes the h...
Freddy says, "Take a photo of that tiny tree" as I contemplate the best place to do a sphere image of one of our favourite swimming holes on the Rivere des Kaoris.The tiny tree is growing right out of a big rock between two cascades. It looks like...
Twin falls is in a steep canyon just off the famous GR©NC1 trek that goes from Prony to Dumbea through the wilderness of southern Grande Terre New Caledonia. The river is called la Rivière du Carénage because it empties out into the Baie du Caréna...
This sphere image was taken durring the rainy season nearly 4 years after the one right next to it on the exploration of Rivier des Pepites. It was also taken with a 7 GoPro camera rig that I built. Lots of comparisons here, between wet and dry se...
Superyachts in New Caledonia, MY TangoMore and more superyachts have been migrating to the cruising grounds of New Caledonia over the past few years. Some are as big as a small cruise ship. This one, the 37 metre long MY Tango anchored in Baie du ...
The Baie du Carenage is one of the most protected anchorages in the South Pacific and is at the landward end of the Baie du Prony. There was a prison colony here in the 1800's and the prisoners logged the forests to provide wood for building Noume...
Ilot Casy was a tourist destination a century ago when there was still a prison colony in Prony. There was a small hotel here for awhile but it is has been abandoned for over a decade. The whole island and surrounding coral reefs are now a provinc...
