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Port Koube is a very large bay, almost totally enclosed, right in the middle of Ile Ouen. The only residents are sea eagles, herons, lots of other birds, fish, corals, and a wide variety of other sea creatures. Plus, from time to time, the occasional yacht.
I don't know why they called it Port Koube; big ships rarely, if ever, come here and I don' think they ever did. But of course they could. It's big enough and deep enough for a medium sized ship and very well protected from winds of all directions.
There are only a couple of places where a small yacht can anchor. Most of the bay is either too deep or the bottom is a tangled mound of very fine branching coral; the kind of bottom where an anchor won't hold but will cause massive damage to the corals that live in this calm, protected environment.
This was the second time we surveyed the bay, looking for places where a yacht can safely drop the hook; looking with side-scan sonar for areas of smooth, coral free mud in less than 15 meters of water.
As before we only found two good locations for anchoring, one perfect for very strong west winds, the other excellent for east to south west winds and OK for any winds. We found some interesting snorkeling spots and places to go ashore and explore.
One good feature was a new mobile phone antenna providing full 3G coverage to the area. Made it easy to upload the image this morning.
For full details, depths and points of interest about Port Koube, see the The nautical guide to new caledonia.
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Une Nation du Pacifique Sud, la plus proche de l'Australie et de la Nouvelle Zélande. Une chaîne de hautes montagnes, d'impressionnantes cascades et de nombreuses rivières avec une flore et une faune variée et souvent unique au monde - C'est le paradis de la randonnée pédestre ou équestre ainsi que de l'excursion en véhicule tout-terrain.Le plus grand lagon du monde, peuplé d'une faune tropicale endémique particulièrement riche, avec des récifs et des populations de poissons rares et protégées. Des centaines d'épaves sous-marines, des îlots, de nombreuses plages de sable blanc. La population calédonienne est issue d'un large brassage culturel : Mélanésiens, Européens, Polynésiens, Vietnamiens, Chinois, Japonais, et la langue et culture française. La Nouvelle-Calédonie est dotée de très bonnes infrastructures médicales et sociales. Une infrastructure touristique qui offre un large éventail de types d'hébergement allant de l'hôtel 5 étoiles au camping aménagé en passant par l'accueil en milieu tribal, les chambres d'hôtes, les refuges et l'auberge de jeunesse.
