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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,…
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Reflections on Aroha’s Arrival
Every now and then… well, quite often actually, both Helen and I are struck by the “what the hell are we doing here?” question. If this trip was the fruit…
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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…
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Champagne Celebration
Over the last decade or so, my family have developed a habit of meeting up in some interesting places around the world. Happily, one of these places a few years…
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Fishing Boat Pinball
We are making good progress back to the Maldives, although the wind is coming from the exact direction we would like to be heading so we are combining long tacks…
The next chapter in life
