Livin’ in Paradise, It’s a Three So, how many tropical sunsets do you have to see before you get jaded? How many amazing fish in clear, crystal blue water do you have to see before it all looks the same? The answer, thankfully, is way more than I have. But it is impossible not to […]
Tahiti, Island Paradise or Toxic City? Well, after my last journal I got some very interesting emails to the effect of: “So, you are saying that Tahiti is not a tropical paradise?” (Jen, you are now officially quoted in my journal, you’re famous!) So I would like to clarify my position on Tahiti and civilization […]
Our last stop in the Marquesas was Ua Poa. We left in daylight and arrived that same day, an easy and uneventful passage. When we got there we went to explore the island. We dinghied up to the jetty: the most bizarre dinghy dock I have seen to date. It was a good eight feet […]
I am in Suwarrow, a small island that is 685 miles from Bora Bora and 487 miles from Pago Pago. It took me 5 days to get here from Bora Bora in the biggest weather that I have seen so far in my nine months at sea. I am helping my friends on Little Wing, […]
Nuku Hiva, Taiohae was the first civilization that we had seen since we left Puerto Vallarta: other “towns” had consisted of a road, some quaint houses and if you were lucky a “general store.” Very general. The size of a welfare kid’s room and just as sparsely decorated. So when we pulled into the bay […]
Land Beautiful Land We are now anchored in Nuka Hiva. This is a small island in the Marquesas, a blip in a very large ocean. When we arrived to Fatu Hiva from our 23 day, 22 night passage all we could think about was sleep. The smell of earth wafted off of the land and […]
April 4: Day 23 We arrived. I could smell the dirt on the air and saw volcanic peaks that came out of a dream. Fruit and flowers everywhere!.
April 3: Day 22 Today has been filled with anticipation. We can’t stop looking at the chart plotter. We will arrive tomorow. After talking to some other cruisers we are going to start at Fatu Hiva. It is a small island that is to the south-east of the Marquesas Islands cluster.We have heard it is […]
April 2, Day 21 Another record breaking day. One hundred eighty seven miles in twenty four hours! Its like Fearless is the horse that has seen the barn and is going full tilt. Galloping. Pushing on with all she’s got. And the women’s curse is here. Why could that not wait until landfall? So tired […]
April 1: Day 20 At 3:45PM yesterday the wind started building and it did not stop. We have had a steady pace which has resulted in our biggest day so far: one hundred and sixty miles in one day. We have been keeping track of the other boats that are crossing at the same time […]