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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…
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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,…
The next chapter in life
