Looking good ....

Spent Easter in Vanuatu and loved seeing the land look so good!

Taken from our smaller block across the road

Making headway ....

We enlisted the help of a local excavating business to level all the fill evenly over the block and at last it is looking respectable once again :)

Five months down the track ......

and it had all started growing again!!!  

Time for some serious action now.  Time to hire a local contract to get this cleared properly
and the fill levelled professionally.  

  

This is what we want our beach to look like :)

Our neighbour, solicitor and friend Daniel (AKA Jackie Vatu)

In no time at all .....

the jungle started to resurrect itself.  We had left it too long before we had the block maintained and it had become overgrown again.  Once again, we started clearing although much easier this time.

It's true what they say .... things grow so quickly over here

Not as much work this time.

Check out those paw paw trees

Fill dropped on the front quarter of the block for levelling.

We loved this piece of paradise so much ....

we wanted it to be a part of our special day so we planned to marry at Iririki Island on 3 October 2009.  We changed our mind leading up to the wedding and decided to marry here in Brisbane with our family attending but hold another ceremony in Vanuatu as all was booked and ready to go.  

It was a fabulous idea - we could share this special occasion with family but also have the wedding we hoped for in our "special place".

Time to start clearing ...

We hired some workers to start clearing, which they did with machetes at first but we had to hasten the process so we brought in the big guns!

We managed to acquire two smaller blocks across the road!

Starting to look better :)

Bonfire

After making contact with what seemed like hundreds of Real Estate Agents we returned to Port Vila for a week in May 2009 to try and find our small piece of paradise.  We had appointment after appointment, being driven all around looking at block after block of all suitable land (of course most were terribly overpriced) from Devils Point Road to Port Havanna to Eton Beach and more ..... and then the negotiations began!


We submitted offers on two blocks, one out at Devil's Point Road and the other at Erakor opposite Erakor Island Resort.  Unfortunately negotiations failed to secure these blocks and although disappointed, we believed those blocks were not meant to be ours and that something would come our way sooner or later.


Sure enough, a month or so later through our new friend Joel, we were contacted with regard to some uncleared land on second lagoon...... uncleared it was!

Really?  

It's a jungle out there!

Looking across to our block