Chesterfield Reef

Traveling from Vanuatu to Australia is a 7-day trip and to make it more comfortable we broke it up with an illegal stop at Chesterfield Reef which belongs to New Caledonia. It is a strange feeling to stop in front of a couple of small sand islands in the middle of the Coral Sea surrounded by hundreds of miles of water but the untouched beauty was incredible. Turtles were coming ashore to lay eggs, birds were nesting, and sharks were swimming everywhere.