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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…
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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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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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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…
The next chapter in life
