If shuttling through high altitude at ridiculous speeds had been taken into account during evolution, jet lag would not be a thing. But it wasn’t; so it is. Wipe those first three days off my #longserviceleave Despite receiving instructions from the overly travelled brother, and temazepam from my doctor, there was no sleeping during my …
We met with our new friends from SV Illawarra on the jetty one morning and all rode our bikes down along the coast, parallel to the airport and then walked over a stile through a cow paddock and began following a trail through the forest and scrub. By the time we reached Muttonbird Point, we …
Our visit to Pele accompanied by Pandion. Melissa and I circumnavigate the island on foot, get adopted by two dogs and M has a go at being a surf photographer…
Our second last day on Tanna. Over on the other side of the bay was not somewhere I had been – a beach of coral and sand, with a restaurant hut 100 metres from the shoreline. Although we’d previously decided we wouldn’t need a guide to walk to the John Frum village the next bay …
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 …
We left Goldsmith Island, aiming for Scawfell Island, but the wind dropped out and we diverted to Brampton Island instead. We needed somewhere to hide from a large south easterly wind for a few days – I was glad that the wind had decided the destination for us, because M and I could not. I …