Best Thailand Beaches: Noumea Beaches

NOUMEA BEACHES - NEW CALEDONIA
Last visited JAN 2019

This page is becoming a flake lengthy - people seeking materials on a PARTICULAR BEACH volition find:
ANSE VATA BCH - 5% downward page
LEMON BAY - 20
DUCK ISLAND - 30
CHATEAU ROYAL BCH - 65
PLAGE DU MERIDIAN - 70
KUENDO BCH - 75
PLAGE DES NUDISTES - 80
CHS BCH - 85
AMADEE LIGHTOUSE - 90

NOUMEA is the upper-case alphabetic lineament of NEW CALEDONIA as well as paints itself amid other things equally a beach destination.
But I'm non whelmed. What nosotros receive got here, at to the lowest degree for the places I've seem, are way ordinary strips of sand. I'm thinking for NOUMEAN proficient beaches you lot demand to caput OFFSHORE.
Although no doubtfulness the residue of GRANDE TERRE, the large principal isle of NOUMEA, has some drib dead gorgeous beaches - but I haven't managed to larn to them. The solely province trip out of NOUMEA I've done is dorsum inward the 70's into the mountains, non the coast.

I know the LOYALTY ISLANDS northward of GRANDE TERRE as well as the ISLE OF PINES to the east-south-east, tin practise the job. Some of their beaches characteristic on other pages of this weblog - come across the INDEX.

GRANDE TERRE, THE LOYALTIES as well as ISLE OF PINES

GRAND TERRE relative to LIFOU as well as MARE (LOYALTY ISLANDS) as well as ISLE OF PINES.
Go to the INDEX - click on YEJELE BEACH (MARE), ISLE OF PINES as well as LIFOU.

This page's beaches relative to CBD as well as CONTAINER TERMINAL (where large cruise liners dock). The CRUISE TERMINAL where pocket-size as well as intermediate liners necktie upward is only left of the CBD PLACE MARKER.
For a linear scale it is 5km/3.1mi betwixt top as well as bottom house markers.

ANSE VATA - last visited JAN 2019

This is likely the city's #1 beach. But I constitute 2 deficiencies:
- EXPOSED TO THE SOUTH EAST TRADE WINDS (particularly the western half) which seem to blow generally inward these latitudes.
These tin live welcome inward the hottest iii months of the twelvemonth but tin boot the bucket quite unpleasant inward cooler months despite NOUMEA beingness inside the torrid zone (just).
- TOO THIN: I constitute inward recent years that at that spot is a deficiency of sand from H2O to dorsum of beach - inward February 2018/Jan 209 mid as well as eastern areas areas had solely 2m mid-tide and NO BEACH full tide. Bit wider towards the western cease - a niggling over 3m total tide. SANTA MONICA it ain't.
Note my kickoff 2 visits inward the mid 70s saw enough of sand - maybe TROPICAL CYCLONES (HURRICANES/TYPHOONS to you lot northern hemisphere dudes) receive got cutting a lot of sand.

ANSE VATA mid as well as western sections expect pretty sweetness inward this 2016 painting from the first-class OUEN TORO HILL viewpoint. Maybe it was depression tide on 1 of those SPRING TIDE (extra low/high tides) days associated alongside FULL MOON/NO MOON. Didn't larn s withdraw chances to see the actual beach that day.

Not so impressive this 2015 depression tide shot from eastern cease (note moisture sand to dorsum of beach).

Ditto this high tide mid-beach shot 2018. Note it widens a flake at far western end. Wind was pretty brisk on the solar daytime but wavelets pocket-size due to the protection of GRANDE TERRE'S formidable barrier reef - making this a relatively prophylactic beach for swimming but non equally proficient equally wind-protected LEMON BEACH at nowadays due east (see downward page).

A PLUS of exposure to those brisk prevailing TRADE WINDS is that ANSE VATA is the WIND as well as KITE SURFING upper-case alphabetic lineament of the southward westward Pacific.
Several places along the beach concourse rent equipment as well as give lessons.
That's the rather proficient DUCK ISLAND inward background (see downward page) - five infinitesimal frequent H2O taxi from mid ANSE VATA for a improve beach as well as some okay snorkelling. Island entryFREE - H2O taxi less than $20aud return.

The other addition of ANSE VATA is the precinct of PAVEMENT CAFES/RESTAURANTS across the beach road, especially proficient towards the eastern cease end. Cool places to sit down as well as banking concern gibe the passing parade as well as beingness NEW CALEDONIA, non inexpensive.

SUM UP - compared to the thousand-odd other beaches I've visited I receive got to charge per unit of measurement this 1 BELOW AVERAGE. Not bad Mind you lot but aught to larn excited about. Unless you lot are a WIND SURFER or KITE BOARDER.

ANSE VATA as well as SURROUNDING AREA

ANSE VATA (the cardinal southward facing bay alongside H2O taxis/pavement cafes) for sure shows lack of sand inward this GOOGLE EARTH image. LEMON BAY at top non much better. PLAGE DU CHATEAU ROYAL which is truly a southern extension of ANSE VATA truly looks a flake wider.
You tin come across the relative closeness of DUCK ISLAND as well as QUEEN TORO VIEWPOINT top of eponymous large loma - the afterwards is good worth the walk from ANSE VATA (note metropolis autobus #10 goes upward as well as several tourist buses as well as the Chou Chou prepare from the CRUISE TERMINAL or DOCK also visit).
For LINEAR SCALE it's 1200m betwixt house markers of DUCK ISL as well as WATER TAXIS.

COSE-UP OF EASTERN HALF OF ANSE VATA

Spot the sand. I figure the GOOGLE EARTH satellite must receive got snapped this only after a TROPICAL CYCLONE cutting all the sand out or at the real top of a fortnight's highest tide around FULL MOON or NO MOON (how come upward they telephone phone the latter NEW MOON? - doesn't brand sense, But that's ENGLISH - does SPENDTHRIFT brand sense for a large fourth dimension spender?)
Note this one-half of the beach is to a greater extent than protected from the SE TRADES - the best windsurfing/kite-sailing is off the western half.

GETTING THERE
ANSE VATA coupled alongside the following BAIE DES CITRONS as well as CASINO areas comprises NOUMEA'S principal tourist hotel zone, so access is a relatively curt walk for people staying there.
However a bulk of visitors these days is made upward of CRUISE SHIPS PASSENGERS (over twenty liners see each month) - access is likely easiest hopping on the ship-booked JUMP ON/JUMP OFF BUS at the CRUISE TERMINAL. But at one-half the toll other JO/JO buses run out of the CRUISE TERMINAL (free frequent 10 infinitesimal shuttle from the CONTAINER PORT where most large liners dock) - these are the go. LYVAI TOUR (look for the dudes inward the cherry t-shirts) tends to receive got to a greater extent than as well as to a greater extent than frequent buses. I think they are to the lowest degree expensive these days too.
TOWN BUS 12 which I think is called the beach bus also runs from the CRUISE TERMINAL ARE , + town buses 10, xi AND lxx depart from stops a few blocks inland from the TERMINAL nigh COCONUT SQUARE. However you lot volition demand CPF FRANCS for town buses. LYVAI etc receive got Aussie dollars as well as credit cards.
The pop CHOU CHOU TRAINS run past times ANSE VATA as well as BAIE DE CITRONS but don't stop. Once 1 time again LYVAI'S CHOU CHOU is abt one-half the toll of the 1 starting at the ship.

LYVAI JO/JO BUSES exterior the CRUISE TERMINAL.
Note VOYAGER OF THE SEAS at the container port inward background - a flake farther than this shot suggests: I receive got cranked a flake of telephoto into the ol' elcheapo OLYMPUS.

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BAIE DES CITRONS (LEMON BAY) - lastly visited February 2018

Okay - technically the beach hither is called PLAGE DE LA BAIE DES CITRONS, but I similar it simple, state LEMON BEACH.
I prefer this 1 to neighbouring to the due east ANSE VATA, mainly because it's SHELTERED FROM THE PREVAILING SE TRADES as well as HAS MORE SAND AT FULL TIDE.

The beach is fix deep inside LEMON BAY, shielded from the south-easterlies past times the longish headland on which the photographic television camera is situated.

3/4 tide shot shows to a greater extent than sand than at ANSE VATA (it's wider at this northern cease than mid or southward but the beach does non disappear inward those places dissimilar at ANSE VATA) although it all the same is non what you'd telephone phone a WIDE beach.
Note lack of chop as well as the smallest of wavelets - this is a proficient beach for kids, as well as adults who are a flake phased past times rougher stuff. The fact that the H2O shelves fairly gently doesn't wound either.
However WIND SURFERS as well as KITE BOARDERS volition non live impressed past times the sheltered conditions.
Note likewise at that spot is NO SHORTAGE OF SHADE behind the beach. Also some outdoor showers as well as residue rooms.

Across the route from the beach are several PAVEMENT CAFES - non equally many equally at the far cease of ANSE VATA but all the same an attractive feature.

SUM UP - you lot won't live writing domicile to mum most this 1 either but to me it is a pace upward from its neighbor - to SATISFACTORY.

Hmmm - non much sand showing hither either. Same super high-tide FULL MOON or NO MOON solar daytime equally featured on ANSE VATA satellite shot. Just had some other idea - maybe this was shot only after a TROPICAL CYCLONE ripped thru as well as cutting a hell of a lot of sand from the bay - TROPICAL CYCLONES receive got been real frequent inward recent years. Thing is beaches wax as well as wane - seemed to receive got waxed a flake on my Feb2018 visit.

GETTING THERE - same equally upward page for ANSE VATA.

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DUCK ISLAND (ILE aux CANARDS) - visited February 2018

MOST CORAL CAYS TAKE SOME REACHING - THIS ONE IS LESS THAN 10 MINS FROM NOUMEA CITY (ACTUALLY CENTRAL ANSE VATA BEACH) VIA FREQUENT WATER TAXI.
But I was left a niggling perplexed - enough of gulls BUT WHERE'S THE DUCKS?

DUCK ISLAND AND NEARBY NOUMEA LOCATIONS.

DUCK ISLAND lower left is solely 1200 m from the cardinal ANSE VATA H2O taxi divergence dot (arrow). About the same from CHATEAU ROYAL'S BCH - but direct you lot demand to wim or wind-surf from there. The OUEN TORO (QUEEN TORO) loma viewpoint is good worth the walk if you lot don't pass all solar daytime on the island.

DUCK ISLAND from QUEEN TORO VIEWPOINT.

Only 1200m off ANSE VATA BECH as well as 1950 from the viewpoimt/
Note you lot tin come across the outer BARRIER REEF (white streak) from hither - some 20lkm from the camera. No surprises - NOUMEA'S large isle (GRAND TERRE) has the 2nd biggest barrier reef as well as enclosed lagoon inward the world.

A coral cay is a quondam atoll where the lagoon has been filled or partly filled alongside detritus eroded from the reef. Wind as well as moving ridge activity piles it inward a higher house ocean flat - but never to an appreciable height. This isle tin live walked around inward around fifteen minutes.
Note the size of the surrounding reef inward the inward a higher house GOOGLE EARTH pic. Somewhat surprisingly I constitute BEST SNORKELING was inward the WHITE ARROW area. Boats boot the bucket far inward the YELLOW surface area - as well as the BEST BRACH is behind both WHITE as well as YELLOW. For those seeking a to a greater extent than secluded department of beach, CHARCOAL does the trick. I forgot to score the SEA BIRD HATCHERY AREA - it's only northward of the SOUTH EAST CORNER nigh the 200m house marker.

THE BEACH

You are non gonna write domicile to mum most this one. At the same fourth dimension it's way improve than NOUMEA'S mainland ANSE VATA as well as LEMON BEACH inward that at that spot is enough of width top of the tide.
Another addition is this is on the LEE SIDE of the isle as well as so protected from the prevailing SE TRADE WINDS which I notice a pain. On a moderately blustery solar daytime it was pretty benign here.
Above nosotros receive got lotsa room to lay a towel/sarong on the sand at front end - behind is the day-resort SUNLOUNGE area: tin live rented at what I idea an excessively high fee (but I'm a cheapskate).
Sand was white/yellow. Lotsa coral debris especially nigh the H2O which made my elcheapo chain shop REEF BOOTIES a proficient investment.

SUN LOUNGE AREA

Just the spot if you lot are the type likes to sit down dorsum as well as suck the frequent drinkable from the solar daytime trip resort bar. H5N1 flake inward a higher house my pension degree unfortunately.

DAY TRIP BAR

Cool bar inward centre of island. Can also practise meals. Being NEW CALEDONIA, prices are non inexpensive.
There is also a REST ROOM surface area nearby. No accommodation on DUCK ISLAND.

SNORKELING

The best snorkeling seemed to live left (looking out to sea) of the H2O taxi arrival area. Some okay coral as well as fishies reasonably unopen to the sand volition maintain novice snorkelers happy but hard heart dudes receive got seen much better.
Further out the coral lost color as well as size. I didn't proceed to the REEF DROP-OFF (white buoys) because I was feeling lazy - but cutting me a break: at almost 73 I've lost a flake of enthusiasm for long swims to places mightiness live (but real seldom are) a pace up. However a DIVE BOAT tied upward out at that spot indicated it could live an interesting spot.
Day trip resort tin rent snorkel gear but it ain't a create practise - my Brit mate from the H2O taxi demurred so I lent him my mask. I ever deport a confront mask - tin practise without bulky fins as well as snorkel..

ALTERNATIVE SNORKELING

These people were most to banking concern gibe out the surface area off the SECLUDED BEACH area. Seemed fairly pop alongside snorkellers but I didn't banking concern gibe it.
ALSO - I did banking concern gibe the surface area to the RIGHT of the boat arrival spot - a lady told me she saw some TURTLES there. Nada for me - the surface area featured enough of ocean grass, niggling coral, some fish - turtles had shot thu.

STROPPY SEA BIRDS

My Brit mate from the H2O taxi was underhwhelmed past times the aggressive ocean birds hither at the southern cease of the due east coast - understandable at a hatchery. I constitute the common stick held inward a higher house the caput kept them away.
East coast pretty barren - cops the SE TRADES total on. I'm thinking abt that SAND SPIT you lot tin come across far background - must receive got been from times fourth dimension when the prevailing winds REVERSE for a curt time, the resulting currents dragging sand off the BEST BEACH area. Or maybe at that spot is a permanent tidal electrical current on the waxing or waning tide despite the prevailing south-easterlies - I didn't notice whatever side drag when snorkelling to the left of this area.

BACK TO THE MAINLAND

Such is the frequency of the H2O taxis, I solely had to hold back five minutes for this one.
Once back, I headed left to banking concern gibe out WESTERN ANSE VATA as well as LEMON BEACH, but you lot tin easily caput correct for EASTERN ANSE VATA as well as the PAVEMENT CAFES across the road, the CHATEAU ROYAL beach surface area as well as the superior QUEEN TORO VIEWPOINT behind. You tin relieve a flake (not much) of walking past times crossing the route to the JUMP ON/JUMP off autobus halt as well as going a infinitesimal or 2 to the NORTH ANSE VATA TURN-AROUND which is real nigh the SIDEWALK CAFE precinct.

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CHATEAU ROYAL BEACH - lastly visited JAN 2019

This 1 is truly a extension of ANSE VATA but its orientation makes it to a greater extent than sheltered from the southward due east trades.

CHATEAU ROYAL WIDE BCH at top starts less than 400m southward of ANSE VATA, followed past times CHATEAU ROYAL NARROW BCH middle.

CHATEAU ROYAL WIDE BCH

The wider business office of CHATEAU ROYAL BEACH (that's my hollo past times the way - it likely has a local hollo but I can't notice it) is opened upward to the public. This department seemed to live to a greater extent than organised inward 2019 than inward 2014 - wind/kite surfers had been banished to PlAGE DU MERIDIAN farther southward as well as the surface area off the inward a higher house beach given over to swimmers addition boats/water taxis inward dedicated areas.(image TRIPADVISOR)

CHATEAU ROYAL BCH NARROW

Just southward of the previous icon (to its left) the beach narrows markedly for most 80m - pretty skinny from ocean to dorsum of beach, dissimilar the 70s when this was a reasonably broad beach. If you lot click-wexpand you lot tin come across wider department of beach inward middle ground as well as ANSE VATA bay far background.
Interestingly this narrow department is truly inward front end of the MERIDIEN HOTEL but this is non PLAGE DU MERIDIAN - that beach is at nowadays southward (see downward page).

In 2014 this was a pop WIND SURFING/KITE BOARDING beach.
I grabbed my FACE MASK as well as checked the scene out at that spot - likely solely 2m deep 250m from the sand. H5N1 lot of ocean grass, a few scattered pocket-size coral bommies alongside fish - novice snorkelers may notice it interesting but hard heart types volition live bored.

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PLAGE DU MERIDIAN (MERIDIEN BCH)

This is at nowadays southward of the narrow business office of CHATEAU ROYAL BCH. as well as is truly a spit beach earlier the coast turns due east. Note how compact it is - barely over 100m long. However dissimilar lots of NOUMEA beaches, it is enough broad at total tide. The southward easterly trades tend to blow offshore making H2O off the sand fairly smoothen - but lack of protective buildings or landscape features agency it was nicely cool as well as the warmish solar daytime I visited. Note the bay to the correct was real chopped upward past times the air current as well as unappealing. There's no beach that side.
Not sure most status re world access - offshore is a designated wind/kite surfing area, but at that spot is a wire combat going inland from that breakwater at top which I constitute slowly to walk around. Only one-half a dozen beach goers on a prissy solar daytime when CHATEAU ROYAL BEACH had good over a hundred.

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BEACHES OF THE NOUVILLE PENINSULA
last visited November 2018

The NOUVILLE PENINSULA is westward of the CBD as well as the CONTAINER TERMINAL where bigger cruise liners necktie upward (smaller ones berth at the CRUISE TERMINAL which is only to left of the CBD house marker). The peninsula is hilly as well as semi-urban - contains quite a few world buildings including a duet of hospitals as well as the university. There are a few beaches towards its far end.

KUENDO BEACH

KUENDO BEACH is situated where the N place-marker is on the map inward a higher house this one. It's most 7km from the CBD on autobus #10 - boot the bucket to the terminal halt which is marked above, walk some other 80m as well as expect for the rail leading correct which goes 150m thru the common to the beach.
The 400m long beach itself is spit into 2 parts - the southern world department as well as the northern resort section. Labels volition live clearer if you lot click-expand image.

This is Earth beach department of KUENDO. In many respects it's a typical NOUMEA beach - non especially attractive sand (a fair flake of weed as well as coral detritus), sparse (check the high tide score inward the top photo), H2O non super clear as well as fairly shallow for some distance off the sand. However it differs inward that its orientation addition the surrounding hills hateful the prevailing southward easterlies are OFFSHORE, pregnant smoother H2O conditions. And it has a RURAL atmosphere, backed past times a pleasant common surface area (I read some reports which said this was inward pretty miserable status non all that long agone - looks similar the authorities receive got spent a flake of coin here) instead of the restaurants etc of in-town beaches. I went for a swim - some patches of coral stone offshore alongside a few fish, but aught to larn excited about.

This shot shows the continuation of KUENDO into the resort surface area - authorities annotation the beach is 1 smoothen arc (see GOOGLE EARTH icon upward page) - my elcheapo OLYMPUS hasn't stitched this panorama shot together all that well.
I'm non existent sure how many resorts are on the northern one-half - the meshing talks of KUENDO BEACH RESORT as well as KUENDO BEACH HOTEL but is never clear on if this is 1 house alongside 2 names, or 2 places.
Note how smoothen the bay is - I think you lot may demand a TROPICAL CYCLONE SWELL to generate whatever waves or fifty-fifty wavelets here. This, the shallow H2O as well as the common brand for an first-class kids' beach.

PLAGE DES NUDISTES

This is most 300m southward of KUENDO on the due east facing coast, across a slightly raised cleared department of province inland of the steep western headland of KUENDO - come across icon below. Shorter than KUENDO but otherwise much the same EXCEPT it faces due east into the southward easterlies as well as is non backed past times parkland. Note no nudists the prissy weekday of my visit.

NO NAME BEACH

This is northward of NUDISTS BEACH towards the cease of the eastern side of KUENDO HEADLAND (see GOOGLE IMAGE upward page nether KUENDO BEACH heading). NO NAME is my hollo - no doubtfulness it has a local hollo but GOOGLE MAPS doesn't telephone phone it. Speaking of which.....I wouldn't live a flake surprised if this was non the existent PLAGE DES NUDISTES. Seems similar the perfect nudey beach - away from the crowds - a flake hard to reach. Which is precisely why this happy camper didn't boot the bucket at that spot - my 73yo arthritic knees don't appreciate extended walks to places which may involve some hard access.
Then 1 time again - the GOOGLE nominated PLAGE DES NUDISTES does receive got decent parking only behind the beach - something NOUMEA's weekend naturists mightiness appreciate.

CHS BEACH

My name, because 2/3 of it it is behind the CHS HOSPITAL (Google Maps gives no name). Note the typical narrowness, especially inward a higher house the high tide score as well as enough of marine detritus blown onshore past times the prevailing SE Trade winds.
I shot this from a storm-water pipeline showing abt 400m of beach. Behind photographic television camera is some other 200m odd, backed past times housing inward the furthest end.
Summing up, I wouldn't write domicile to mum most this beach.

Location is most 200m south-east of the nudey beach. Note the autobus halt on the inland of the infirmary - accessed from the beach past times a route leaving non far pastthe pipeline

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COMING UP
With to a greater extent than NOUMEA visits inward 2019 (Lady Tezza sure is a non bad cruiser as well as I can't state no to 8-11 days of relaxation/eating on a huge liner - as well as all liners calling inward at the smaller NOUMEAN islands must also see NOUMEA insist local authorities) I am non sure which beach to visit. The solely 1 I haven't checked since the 1970s is that at AMADEE LIGHTHOUSE. The isle hither is bigger than DUCK ISLAND as well as the beach goes correct around. There is also a surrounding lagoon which offers snorkelling as well as from my 70s memory, H2O skiing. My retentiveness is a flake vague after all this fourth dimension but I seem to recollect a nicer beach than at DUCK ISLAND which I regard equally NOUMEA MAINLAND'S best.
But the interrogation is - is AMADEE LIGHTHOUSE a NOUMEA beach? It's 25km due southward from the Marina guarding a top inward the BARRIER REEF. At 25km, I don't think so.
The other affair is the trip out at that spot is non likewise slowly much of the time. When the SOUTH EAST TRADES BLOW a lot of the way tin live choppy as well as uncomfortable. And non inexpensive.
So don't concur your breath for whatever upcoming report.

Looks nice. But a (possibly bumpy) 25km? (image PRINCESS CRUISES)

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