A week and a day since we made landfall in Vanuatu on the island of Tanna. It feels like a month. Rahmasan nup nup-an means, “Hello, good morning!” in Port Resolution (the dialects are specific to each village, so this particular greeting doesn’t work a few kilometres away). Here’s our anchorage – that’s us on […]
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New Caledonia to Vanuatu
On our customs forms we had indicated we would be arriving in Port Resolution at lunchtime on Thursday 2 August. If you want to check into Vanuatu on the island of Tanna (not one of the check-in ports) you have to apply for special permission – which we recieved. It costs a bit of extra […]
Farewell New Caledonia
Today has been our final day in New Caledonia – tomorrow morning we leave Anse Majic in Baie de Prony with our sails set for Vanuatu. My morning was spent making peanut butter, bliss balls, steamed spuds and boiled eggs for the passage. Small DB made cherry gummies and also cut up chunks of orange […]
Darling it Hertz
A long day. A good day. A day of perfect weather. A day that thwacked me repeatedly to remind me that gluten is everywhere no matter how you endeavour to avoid it. I hired a car! It was manual, because automatics cost more. I drove on the other side of the road – for the […]
Singing the BoatCat Blues
Eight months along we’re singing the BoatCat blues Anything she doesn’t scratch, she chews Stressed by visitors she can’t control Dragging my life down a deep dark hole A UTI made her wee everywhere On my leg, on the bed, on the cushion from the chair An unhappy BoatCat, an unhappy Beth Wishes for the […]
Catching up. And I need a holiday.
In circumstances such as this – when I have neglected the blog for an unreasonable amount of time – it is easiest to do two things. 1) Write in point form 2) Include lots of photos as evidence of busyness Thus; • after the Isle of Pines we spent some quality time in Baie du […]
Dog for a day. Nga Peak.
A couple of days ago, after lengthy cogitations about how we would traverse the 6km to the Saturday morning market, but at the same time try to climb the highest point on the Isle of Pines before midday to avoid the heat, I decided to forego the market and head straight to the mountain. Our […]
Boat Hacks 01: BoatCat
Much time was spent on BoatCat research before I allowed an invasion of the fur that has trashed our cockpit floor, vomited in various locations and bitten all of us multiple times. In case anyone else is still thinking they will also obtain a boatcat after that sentence, I will now write about the LITTER […]
Up and down and down and up…
Like almost every online glimpse of other people’s lives, I’m sure ours looks better than yours. You don’t tend to keep bad photographs in your album, and likewise, you don’t tend to exhibit the mundane bits of your life online. Where’s the interest in that? I’ve had several people comment; ‘Your life is amazing.” and […]
