Category: sv evi

  • Visit home

    Visit home

    We were in the States for 5 weeks total. On our tour we visited Tacoma, Olympia, Seattle, Port Townsend, Ocean Shores, Third Beach, Whidbey Island, and Santa Fe, New Mexico. It was so amazing to see all our loved ones! We felt so much love — our hearts are full to the brim. Lots of…

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  • Singapore

    Singapore

    We left sv evi at 8 am on June 26th, heading for Bali to catch our flight to Singapore. We drove about an hour, then took a ferry for … 6 hours! Then drove 2.5 hours more to get to our hotel by the airport. It was an exhausting day. Also, the ferry ride involved…

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  • Movie Time!

    Make some popcorn, watch on your big screen (I believe phone viewing doesn’t capture the magnitude of the ocean and the subjects). Here are some videos of recent wildlife encounters. If you are having trouble viewing on the blog here is a direct link to the YouTube page https://youtube.com/@svguavajelly?si=Fv1O_42fUJ6mGmKl Jade, Luz and I had an…

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  • Waterfalls and Orang-utans

    Waterfalls and Orang-utans

    Our visa extensions got approved! Whew! We had to give them some additional documents, but it worked out. We had a lovely time on Moyo Island, where we visited two amazing waterfalls and met a nice family who has recently moved from St. Croix to Bali. We hired 3 guys to take us 6 km…

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  • Komodo Dragons, Manta Rays and more

    Komodo Dragons, Manta Rays and more

    In May we continued adventuring south. We visited the Blue Lagoon at Labengke and had a lovely refreshing (even got cold!) swim. After an overnight sail, we arrived at Wangi Wangi, in Wakatobi National Park. We docked at a free marina, and ended up staying for a week! Yes, free marina. No power or water,…

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  • April happenings

    April happenings

    Our first stop back in Indonesia was Pulau Kawio. We rested for a few days and snorkeled to the beach to play Kubb with rocks. We saw dolphins pass by while at anchor. We checked in to Indonesia at Bitung, Sulawesi. It was an all day affair, from 9 am to 7:30 pm. While in…

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  • Better a bleeding heart than none at all.

    Better a bleeding heart than none at all.

    Just a heads up that this post will talk about the current government of the USA. I know that can be triggering for many people, so you decide if now is a good time to read on or not. My dad, Tom Pratt, died of pancreatic cancer in 2006. There were six weeks between his…

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  • Filipino grocery stores

    Filipino grocery stores

    Once when I was in the NCCC grocery store in Babak, a song came on and all the workers started doing a choreographed dance. How joyful! Some things I think are so ingenious about the grocery stores here: plastic bags come with an extra bit of plastic so you can tie the bag shut without…

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  • Holiday Oceanview Marina

    Holiday Oceanview Marina

    HOV has been our home for the past 5 weeks. It is a lovely and unique place. First of all, it has no website, and the only way I found out how to get a hold of Dina, the manager, was word-of-mouth from another cruiser. Dina is super helpful and kind. We chose to come…

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  • China (kids’ perspectives)

    China (kids’ perspectives)

    Tomu: It was cool to explore our ancestral home and see the photos that were on the wall before. There was a big room in the middle, and it was symmetrical on either side. It felt bigger than our house in Tacoma, but that might have been because I have been living on a boat.…

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