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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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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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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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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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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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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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Island Life
Living in a self-contained unit makes you acutely aware of how much energy you use. This extends from head torch batteries (we use them for night watches, in the dinghy,…