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Jewellery Island
We left Kolumafushi and the Huvadhoo atoll on Friday and sailed (well, motored) overnight to arrive in Laamu atoll yesterday mid-morning. Our experience in Huvadhoo had been largely positive and…
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Holy Smoked Tuna!
The planned early departure from Gadhdhoo Harbour nearly went belly up when we awoke to find what we thought should be mid-tide was actually low tide. One of the downsides…
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Too Deep or Too Shallow!
Lisa and Dave had recommended a couple of anchorages within the southern Huvadhoo Atoll but found the two we tried were too shallow where the coral reef was or too…
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Back in the Northern Hemisphere
We arrived back in Gan in Addu Atoll in the very south of the Maldives chain yesterday after just under three days passage back from Chagos. It was fairly smooth…
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Disconnecting from Civilisation
Whilst on the BIOT boat a few days back, we were merrily extolling the virtues of being away from civilisation and enjoying it, not feeling the urge to read the…
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Arrival in Chagos
Apologies for not being in touch. We arrived in Chagos a few days ago and have been moored near the island of Boddam. We had a fantastic day to arrive-…
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Heading for Chagos
A couple of days out and we are finally managing to get some distance behind us. The engine has been acting ‘a bit funny’ (a technical term), so we decided…
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Final Days in the Maldives
Redundancy is not usually something to be enjoyed, but we like to think we made the best of an adverse situation to take this ‘big voyage’ and escape from reality. …
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Day Skipper Study Time
It is now less than a week until I rejoin Bryan on Aroha. What seemed like a long five weeks now seems to have flown by. Unfortunately, most of it…
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Back to the Maldives
We arrived in Gan at about 1 pm today and are now at anchor in the small harbour near the Equator Beach Resort. We reached our first sight of Maldivian…
The next chapter in life
