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Trouble Leaving
I have just finished reading a book about one of my heroes, intrepid explorer James Cook, and our voyage seems tame in relation to what he accomplished. We have bemoaned…
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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…
The next chapter in life
