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Entries from June 2011

New Hebrides but with no hint of Scotland

June 18th, 2011 · 3 Comments

Giselle is not the first sailing ship to arrive here, there are reports of a certain Captain Cook sailing in in 1774 and named the bay after his ship, Resolution.  Still today Port Resolution offers good anchorage for yachts.  Tanna is Vanuatu’s second most popular island to visit, main reason, it has an active volcano

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Tags: Friends & Family · Pacific Leg

At anchor: Peterson Bay (Oyster Island), Espiritu Santo

June 17th, 2011 · Comments Off on At anchor: Peterson Bay (Oyster Island), Espiritu Santo

So you haven’t heard from us for a few days, well the truth is we didn’t want to tap on the keypads incase we woke up this sleepy lagoon anchorage. We arrived through a tricky little entrance, I mean tricky we had to eyeball the bommies and weave around them, even then we only had […]

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Tags: At Sea

At anchor: Luganville, Espiritu Santo

June 3rd, 2011 · Comments Off on At anchor: Luganville, Espiritu Santo

Kirsty and Andrew left last Sunday. Plane actually took off a couple of minutes early. They are now in Indonesia. We have stayed here in Luganville. Our first lazy time time since last November. We have snorkeled Million Dollar Point where the Americans dumped into the sea a huge amount of the equipment they had […]

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Tags: At Sea