Denise
Environmental Vandals at the Blue Hole
Blue holes are abundant all over Luganville Island in Vanuatu. These fresh water springs are delightfully cool and a magnificent soft...
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Denise
Aug 14, 20183 min read
Provisioning Dilemas
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...
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Denise
Jul 22, 20183 min read
27 Dresses
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...
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Denise
Jul 18, 20184 min read
Diving the Prony Needle
Third times’ a charm for the Prony Needle. On our 2 previous visits to Baie du Prony (Prony Bay) weather and uncertainty about the...
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Denise
Jul 12, 20184 min read
The Unpredictability of Days
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),...
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Denise
Jun 24, 20184 min read
The Perfect Cruising Day
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...
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Denise
Jun 23, 20183 min read
New Caledonia, not what I expected
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...
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Denise
May 26, 20184 min read
Anchor dramas
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...
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Denise
May 17, 20183 min read
Numbers galore
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...
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Denise
May 12, 20183 min read
Air, not the type you are thinking of!
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...
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Denise
May 10, 20188 min read
For the love of sailing?
May 11th We recently had the pleasure of dining with a couple we just met, Ellen and Mike. Ellen (pronounced Elain) a professional sailor...
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Denise
May 7, 20184 min read
Not Friend Shopping?
“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...
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Denise
Apr 30, 20184 min read
Ball’s Pyramid
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...
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Denise
Apr 25, 20187 min read
Over and Under - Lord Howe Island
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...
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Denise
Apr 10, 20185 min read
Lord Howe WOW Island
April 15th This could just be the most beautiful place I have ever seen. An unusual combination of Tahiti, Fiji, Hawaii and Australia. An...
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Denise
Apr 2, 20187 min read
Sailing across the Tasman Sea - what is it really like on a passage
March 30th - Leaving Australia We checked out of customs officially at 3.30 yesterday, the culmination of what seems like decades of...
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Denise
Mar 31, 20187 min read
Leaving Australia
We checked out of customs officially at 3.30 yesterday, the culmination of what seems like decades of dreaming and months of preparation....
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Denise
Feb 2, 20183 min read
Lady Elliot Island - don’t sail past
The old adage; it’s not the destination but the journey, does not apply here! Despite reports that the anchorage at Lady Elliot is...
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Denise
Jan 2, 20181 min read
Turning a boat into a home....
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...
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