In Whangarei at the moment. Looking forward to meeting up with Barbara and Deryck again on Monday. Kirsty has a job in a lodge on Mount Cook starting in a couple of weeks. We will bring the boat back here after Barbara and Deryck leave and then go land based sight seeing [...]

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Next morning, sun up and so to the ninety metres of chain yes ninety metres, its deep here. We have stronger winds on our trip towards Bora Bora, 25 to 30 knots but its not far as long as you go straight there. We had to divert as our fishing line was out [...]

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Huahine ticked, next two islands Raiatea and Tahaa are both behind the same reef. We start at the south east end and work our way north and around Tahaa. Our first trip ashore was to visit the most important Polynesian traditional temple area Marea Taputapuatea, this is where all their long sea voyage [...]

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From Moorea it was an overnight passage to Huahine, we anchor on the east side inside the reef. Huahine is a lovely place people are very friendly, giving us lots of bananas, coconuts, papaya and even lending us their dogs for our walks.

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A quick hop and we were at Moorea, as the guide book says, with mountains leaping almost vertically out of the clear lagoon, lush vegetation, restaurants dripping with fresh fish etc etc this is the island paradise. It certainly is very beautiful, and a wonderful place to have Kirsty’s birthday BBQ in the company [...]

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We have finished putting lots more photos and stories from the Society Islands on this site and so are now free to leave. You can access the photos now but the story will come out in a series at two day intervals. We expect it to take about 10 days to get to [...]

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Tahiti iti, the small south east part of Tahiti, has quiet deserted anchorages. The passes through the reef into the lagoons are straight forward as the French authorities have spent a lot of money putting lit buoys to mark the channels. Our first anchorage was in Cooks Bay which we had to ourselves. [...]

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Enterprising locals in the Society islands have tamed fish so that the tourists can get up real close. On Moorea, just west of Tahiti, there is shallow area in the lagoon behind the reef where you can stand waist high in water, while the sting rays push past to check you out looking for [...]

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We are delighted to announce the safe arrival of Kirsty our daughter, and David is also delighted of the safe arrival of her bags, with all the spares for Giselle. The addition of extra crew is very welcome, and another female means we can outvote David! She will be with us now until [...]

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We are very proud of our daughter.  The degree results were announced today and She got a 2.1.  We will be with her in spirit at the graduation ceremony.  Celebration meal will be in some Pacific Island when she joins us in August.
We had a minke whale just behind the boat yesterday.  By just behind [...]

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