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  • On the Eve of Indonesia

    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… Read more

  • Cairns to Thursday Island

    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.… Read more

  • Whitsunday Island to Cairns

    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… Read more

  • Amazing Australia!

    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… Read more

  • 9 days at Sea or The Longest Passage on sv evi So Far

    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… Read more

  • Vanuatu fast and furious

    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,… Read more