We're arrived back in the capital, Port Vila, last night to clear out with Customs and Immigration and be ready to head off to New Caledonia in the next few days.
One of the pluses of clearing out is you can get authorisation to buy fuel and goods at duty free prices. Our morning was spent visiting the numerous duty free shops to find who offered the best price on gin as we are down to the last half of our last bottle.
On our wanderings we found a fishing tackle shop to buy more hooks to replace the ones the fish had eaten. The owner of the shop was wearing a gold chain with a very large shark's tooth suspended. Having my own bull shark tooth which I'd like to have made into a pendant I was intrigued. What type of shark and how did he come by it?
It was the tooth of a great white shark which he's caught off Devil's Point in the north of the bay leading into Port Vila. Yes, there are great white's in Vanuatu it seems. We'd heard about tigers, but not Gws. If the tooth was that big, how big was the beast and how did they land it? He answer was they brought only the head of the shark on board because the rest had been attacked and eaten by the other sharks. Gulp! Our final question had to be what bait do you use to catch a great white? A dog. Double gulp! The next question of alive or dead wasn't asked.
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