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Male – The City On Speed
Male is a medium sized Asian city on speed. It’s a two by a two-kilometre piece of compact real estate where everything happens faster, noisier, smellier… than anywhere else in…
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Excitement In The Night
One of the aspects of this type of cruising that I really enjoy is the planning… the preparation… the deciding where to go and when. It’s all fine and dandy…
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Rock ‘n Roll & Swell Times
We left Chagos yesterday at midday, raising the anchor and clearing out of the Soloman lagoon just as a rain shower passed over. I much prefer to be able to…
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Sashimi!
A few days back we had a beautiful experience with spinner dolphins in Chagos. A huge pod were playing inside the lagoon on quite a calm day so we tore…
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Chagos History & True Confessions
I grew up thinking that ‘history’ was a dull and uninteresting topic which revolved around memorising dates, but have come to be fascinated by the stories that go with it…
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Eating and Drinking Island Style
The coconuts are plentiful around here and obviously there are not many people to take them. This place used to be a copra plantation after all. Earlier generations of yachties…
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Settling in at Chagos
I never thought that we’d ever intentionally take Aroha so close to so many coral reefs, but here we are off Boddam island in Soloman Atoll in Chagos with a…
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Passage to Paradise
With a distance of about 280 NM from Gan to Chagos, we’d factored on an easy three days for the passage. With it being the kids first blue-water passage we…
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The Adventure Continues
Helen can use fancy words like ‘symbiosis’ in her diving blog entries, but I maintain that it is a recent documentary that has increased understanding and interest of underwater life…
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Scuba Duba with Klaus
The local resort won’t take the dive boat out with less than two divers on board. Tourist numbers are down at this time of the year, meaning that us divers…
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