We felt very virtuous after our pre-breakfast explorations of the Herring Pools. Later in the afternoon Small DB, M and I anchored Foamy just off the beach near the museum, and wandered together up a track that lead from near the bottle shop up through the bush until we reached a road that we had […]
Spring2018
Brisbane to Southport
It’s an oddly comforting feeling turning up in places that you have some familiarity with. True, we often don’t penetrate further than a kilometre or so inland, but we do have to forage for supermarkets, boat parts, bulk food shops, libraries etc and this means that we get a reasonable knowledge of the area we […]
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Ratua Island on Espiritu Santo to Bundaberg, Australia.
Having pulled it all together in a rather wonderful way (cat adoption, mega-shop, cooking frenzy, check-out of customs, happy dinners, sad farewells) we were ready to leave bang on time – on the morning of Friday 5 October. The weather forecast had remained fairly steady. Most importantly (for me) was minimal swell – I was […]
Espiritu Santo.
By the time we arrived on Santo, anchored off Beachfront Resort, I was SO READY for some urban life. That would be a guarranteed fruit and vegetable market and a supermarket. Luganville ticked both these boxes. I’m happy to rough it, but when food supplies get low after six weeks going from island to island, […]
Asanvari, Maewo.
Our journey from Pentecost to Maewo was a wet one. The seas were confused and there was wind against tide through the awesomely named Lolvavavana Passage (LOL!). M says it looked a lot worse than it actually was and we expected things to get crazy, but it didn’t happen. Bella Luna sliced through it all […]
Ambrym. Two good spots.
The last week or so has been a little tricky. The weather is getting progressively hotter and more humid – I nurse an element of dread about sailing north of Santo. Our last anchorage on Ambrym was the goods – one of my favourites so far. It almost obliterated the very recent experience of HOT […]
The villages of Vutekai, Wailep and Hingal. Then Tahi.
It was a brisk sail – we scooted toward Paama with the main reefed and the jib up. The island’s nearest neighbour is the volcano Lopevi – which used to have around 80 inhabitants – but because it kept erupting, they all moved off in 1960 – mostly to Paama and Epi. Only one elderly […]
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Lamen Bay. Epi.
*Note to reader: I have no photos of Lamen Bay! These pictures are from elsewhere on Epi. Huge trees grow at intervals in between the beach and the walking track at Lamen Bay. They were obviously too strong even for Cyclone Pam to mess around with, and the boatkids gravitated towards them as if magnetised […]