Tag: adventure
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Reflections after 2 years of living aboard evi
Luz (7) Some of my favorite things to do on the boat are color, play games, swim, and play on the paddleboard. I also play Aina Amelia with Jade — it’s a really fun game we made up. Sometimes Mama really nicely lets us do video games. Passages can be fun, but normally they are…
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2 weeks in Japan
On our way back to the boat we stopped in Japan. We visited Disneyland Japan in Tokyo, Warner Bros. Studio Tour to the Making of Harry Potter in Tokyo, and Universal Studios Japan in Osaka. Tomu, Jade, and Riki went on all the scary upside down backwards rollercoasters at USJ. Luz wanted to, but she…
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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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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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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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Kamusta (hello) Philippines!
Well, I wasn’t properly mentally prepared for our passage to the Philippines. Perhaps because we had spent 4 months motoring around Indonesia — there was never any wind and the seas were almost always flat calm. Or because a friend had said getting to Davao, Mindanao from Raja Ampat was relatively straight-forward, involving 3 overnight…
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More visitors!
We made a quick trip to Sorong to pick up our friends Steph and Nic. We stocked up on butter, cheese, and chicken breast. The kids spent an afternoon playing on SV Tayrona while we ran errands and cleaned the boat. Sorong is notorious for theft, so we were happy to just stay there two…
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Halloween etc.
We decided to sail 400+ miles to celebrate Halloween with our friends on SV Salty Finch in Waisai, Raja Ampat. En route we stopped at an island called Balbulol, near Misool, Raja Ampat. It was so dreamy there! Fabulous scenery with tall upside-down ice cream cone shaped islands — limestone cliffs with trees on top.…
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Kaimana and the hiu paus (whale sharks)
The kids decided to stay on board, so we took a handheld VHF radio, and headed into town to provision and visit the Quarantine office to get our green book (apparently a necessity to clear out of the country). We left them a card with how to say, Jangan datang! (Don’t come) or Mohon pergi!…
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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…
