Leap of Faith Vanuatu
The Blue Cave
Originally published in Island Life
Excerpt
“You can’t see under the opening because it’s dark,” he confesses breezily over breakfast, “but it only takes four or five fin kicks and you’re in.”
The Resort Manager is disconcertingly short on detail about the cavern concealed within the limestone coast on the northwest tip of Tanna island in Vanuatu.
It’s an alarming proposition - to dive from the base of a high sea cliff through the dark into an iridescent pool inside a subterranean grotto - but this is no time for equivocation.
He’s pointing to a small boat moored at the water’s edge beyond a tussle of garish pink bougainvillea …