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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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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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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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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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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…
The next chapter in life
