Author: Hannah
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Reflections after (almost) one year living aboard
Luz (6) During the past year we flew to New Zealand, and then we sailed to Fiji, and then we sailed to Vanuatu, and we came to Australia on our longest passage, which was 9 days. We saw lots of cool animals. We saw a mama orca and a baby orca in NZ. We also…
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On the Eve of Indonesia
We have been in Horn Island, across from Thursday Island for 5 days now, preparing for the voyage to Indonesia. I’ve been provisioning and pre-cooking meals. Riki fixed our starboard winch and the manual bilge pump. We have been across to Thursday Island 3 times on the ferry: we took Jade to the doctor for…
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Cairns to Thursday Island
Riki met David & Millie on SV Penny Oyster, a British couple in their early 30’s, on the dock in Cairns. They left the same day we did, and we both overnighted to Lizard Island. We ended up buddy boating with them all the way to Cape York, the northernmost point of the Australian continent.…
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Whitsunday Island to Cairns
We sailed from Airlie Beach, a lovely town where we re-provisioned, to Whitehaven Beach. We ended up motoring in a narrow channel right through a race for Hamilton Island race week. I was steering while Riki told me where to go. So many boats in a small space! It was stressful! We spent 2 days…
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Amazing Australia!
We have been here just over a week now, and we have seen so much wildlife! We rented a car from the marina and woke up at 5 am in order to see kangaroos on the beach at sunrise at Cape Hillsborough National Park. The kangaroos were quite fast! It was cool to see how…
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9 days at Sea or The Longest Passage on sv evi So Far
Those are the titles Luz and Jade chose for their writing about our passage in home school this morning. It was rough when we left Port Vila — all three kids went in their bunks and took naps. Jade and Luz first played their game “wall-leecloth” where one calls out “wall!”, and they both roll…
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Vanuatu fast and furious
We arrived in Port Resolution, on the island of Tanna, in Vanuatu, after 4 days of sailing from Fiji. We spent a week there while waiting for good weather to visit the active volcano of Mount Yasur. We started home schooling again, played soccer with local kids, hung out with our friends on SV Renard,…
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and, our other neighbors came to visit!
We have a pretty tight-knit neighborhood community back home. Thanks to Covid for that! Our neighbors Mary, Erik, Hannah & Simon bought tickets to come visit in Fiji before we left the States. 🙂 They also schlepped a lot of stuff for us, like home school textbooks and a new laptop to be used only…
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Our neighbors came to visit!
We had such a fabulous time with our neighbors Lynette, Sterling & Summer. Sterling is Jade’s BFF, and Jade has been counting down the days until Sterling arrived since we heard they had bought tickets. Luz and Summer had a blast playing together, too. We did a fascinating tour of the KokoMana chocolate farm and…
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Paradise (sortof!)
We sailed overnight from Lakeba to Paradise Resort on the south side of Taveuni island. Riki caught a skipjack tuna trolling and gave it to the resort kitchen as a type of sevusevu. We had lunch and the kids had a swim in the pool. The wind picked up from the north and a mooring…
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