The Apia marina dinghy meets you in the bay and escorts the yachts into their marina berth, they have been known to direct sailors to share a berth with a bommie , yes a bommie one of the large coral heads that can put holes in a glassfibre hull. The game starts when the dinghy [...]

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Tonga is the oldest and last remaining Polynesian monarchy. It is divided into four parts, volcanic Niuas in the north, Vava’u group, Ha’api group low coral and high volcanoes, and Tongatapu in the south with the capital Nuku’alofa. We start with the Niuas, arriving at Niuatoputapu just after the tsunami, there are three villages on [...]

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We would all like to thank you for all the emails you sent during the last couple of weeks, they meant a great deal to us. Replies will be coming out but as you probably guess life was a bit hectic, we were exhausted physically and mentally. We could however sail away, I hope we [...]

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Photos of the damage and the initial recovery of this northern Tongan island now in the gallery. Link to gallery

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We are still on our own here in an idyllic anchorage. It was very quiet yesterday as all the schools and businesses were closed in the aftermath of the Tsunami warnings. Savaii had next-to no damage and no tsunami wave on the north coast of Savaii . Upolu didn’t fair as well with lots of [...]

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Hot news which we have got from the SSB radio and VHF is that there has been an earthquake and Tsunami in Samoa. As often happens, we felt nothing in this anchorage.  Some damage on the south coast has been reported. Hopefully the boats in Apia Marina and Pago, Pago in American Samoa were OK. [...]

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