Blue holes are abundant all over Luganville Island in Vanuatu. These fresh water springs are delightfully cool and a magnificent soft...

Provisioning is always a dilemma, how much fresh, how much frozen, what have you got space for and how many days (adding in a large...

I live outside. Now that is a bit of an obvious statement, but when it comes down to it, it isn’t really. It appears that I live on a...

Third times’ a charm for the Prony Needle. On our 2 previous visits to Baie du Prony (Prony Bay) weather and uncertainty about the...

My old life, as we shall now refer to it, had a lovely if not repetitive predictability about it. Monday to Friday I worked 8 to 5 (ish),...

I woke up this morning to a text from our new friends Megan and Ken. It’s a big call but I couldn’t have put it better myself. It started...

June 15th To be honest we had spent so much time planning to get here I hadn’t really thought through what it would be like when we...

First job of the day, see what is wrong with the anchor winch. As we pulled into Ille Mato’s bay last night my old reliable friend the...

Some days are all about numbers! 0600 is the time we got up to set sail 414 is the number of nautical miles from Norfolk Island to New...

Never have I been so obsessed with air, or space to be specific. Now that we live in a defined space every centimetre matters. Lets start...

May 11th We recently had the pleasure of dining with a couple we just met, Ellen and Mike. Ellen (pronounced Elain) a professional sailor...

“I’m not friend shopping” is a phrase I hear from time to time, a bit of an ongoing punch line if you may! And until we set off I hadn’t...

We make 2 trips to Ball’s Pyramid - the worlds largest rock stack just 18nm south of Lord Howe. Our first venture out is on Lukim Yu a...

One of our (many) motivations for cruising is diving. In a previous life we taught diving all the way through to professional levels (i.e...

April 15th This could just be the most beautiful place I have ever seen. An unusual combination of Tahiti, Fiji, Hawaii and Australia. An...

March 30th - Leaving Australia We checked out of customs officially at 3.30 yesterday, the culmination of what seems like decades of...

We checked out of customs officially at 3.30 yesterday, the culmination of what seems like decades of dreaming and months of preparation....

The old adage; it’s not the destination but the journey, does not apply here! Despite reports that the anchorage at Lady Elliot is...

How do you do this? One box at a time. Today is the day that we accept delivery of our palette of 'stuff" that we packed from our house...