The Vendors of Suva
A trip to Suva is worth the effort for an unparalleled view of urban Pacific life. It makes Papeete look like a sedate Cleveland strip…
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The Rugby Players of Suva
Fijians love rugby and we love to watch them play even though we don’t understand a thing about it. This is what we’ve learned so…
A Slow Boat to Suva
After a week in the anchorage we thought it would be fun to take a little voyage across the Koro Sea on the overnight ferry…
Savusavu
We’ve been really busy in Savusavu since we arrived a week ago. It all started because we accidently giggled at the biosecurity clearance agent as…
NZ to Fiji
We made landfall tonight at 0200 and now we motor into the Koro Sea with Great Astrolabe Reef 55 nm to port and Matuku Island…
The Worried Skipper (a poem, not us)
"I hates to think of dyin'," says the skipper to the mate; "Starvation, shipwrecks, heart disease, I loathe to contemplate. I hates to think of…
A Way Home
As one of our favorite songs goes, “there’s more than one way home.” As we considered how the heck we were going to sail Khamseen…
Return to the Bay of Islands
The timing for our return to the Bay of Islands was clearly fortunate as we currently cling to the bottom of Urupukapuka Bay with our…
The Mosquitoes of The Mokohinaus
You’d think twenty-five miles offshore would be far enough to avoid bugs, yet we found the mosquitoes of the Mokohinau Islands are competing well with…
Great Barrier Island
The bays of Port FitzRoy were blessedly calm. It’s been a rare thing for us to have a truly calm anchorage and we could have…