tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59497771250710608812024-02-07T09:27:12.810-08:00Sailing with Enoughenough sailinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14948751375466656660noreply@blogger.comBlogger29125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5949777125071060881.post-14869136378663239142020-06-03T19:29:00.002-07:002020-06-03T19:29:51.077-07:00<b><span style="font-size: large;">Waiting for a weather window to Fiji</span></b><br />
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May is the usual time that cruisers start planning to leave NZ and head back to the tropics. Most folks finish up boat work and anything needed to ensure a safe passage up to the islands. The average miles to get back up is about 900 nautical miles. For us going back to Fiji, it's over 1,000. It usually takes about 7-10 day depending on weather. Everyone starts to look for a good weather window.<br />
As lots of boat started leaving in May, we were still working on getting the boat ready. Geoff found a crack in the chain plate that holds our forestay. So, that was taken out and another one was made. We added a roller furling for our solent stay and we purchased two more solar panels. So, we were not ready to leave quite yet. The third week in May saw the majority of the boaters leave New Zealand with the ICA Rally (Interisland Cruising Association) as they made their way to Tonga. There are about a handful of boats left in Opua waiting to head up. We were dubbed the Leftover Cruising Club.<br />
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While continuing to prepare the boat and waiting for weather, we spent our last days with our friends from SV Pesto. Their sailing journey has ended and they are heading back to the States. We are incredibly sad to see them go, but excited for their adventure of being on land and integrating back into land society. They were one of the first families we met while we cruised the Sea of Cortez and Mexico. We shared a lot of travel history with them and really enjoy their personalities and company. We will miss seeing them at anchor, but look forward to seeing them again in the future.<br />
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We bought this 2003 Honda Odyssey and drove it all over NZ. It was a great car, but needed to sell her before we left for Fiji. We were able to sell her bout 2 weeks before we left.</div>
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We also bought a new dinghy. A 3.0 (meter) OC Tender. It was time to upgrade to something that could carry all four of us with an outboard. The rowing Peapod was getting a little too small and hard to row with 2 growing boys.</div>
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There goes the Peapod. We sold it to a great couple who appreciates the wood architecture of a rowing/sailing dinghy.</div>
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We were able to spend the last weeks with our friends from Pesto before they left for the United States. We visited the Pompallier Mission. They had the original printing press on display.</div>
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Book binding</div>
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They tan the leather for the book covers.</div>
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Origins of printing phrases</div>
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Pompallier Mission Visitors center</div>
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Messing around in front of the Mission</div>
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We visited a Kauri wood factory</div>
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Kauri jewelery</div>
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Mahoe Cheese dairy </div>
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Mahoe farm cows</div>
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Milk churn</div>
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Taking a break at a waterfall ourside of Kerikeri</div>
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With SV Full Circle and SV AnnaCaroline at the waterfall</div>
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Next post will hopefully be of us landing in Fiji!<br />
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Even though we had toured most of New Zealand last year, we missed a few places that we wanted to see this year. We figured, we won't be back for another season, so we might as well see what we can while we are here.<br />
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We stored our car in Whangarei, while we were in Fiji and picked it up again, when we came back. So, it was nice we did not have to buy another car. We packed up the car with our camping gear and set off. The places we knew we wanted to see were the Coromandel Peninsula, Napier / Hawkes Bay area of the North Island and the Nelson / Golden Bay area of the South Island. </div>
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<b>Coromandel Peninsula</b><br />
We went south and made our way to the Coromandel Peninsula. Coromandel looks like a panhandle east of Auckland. You have the Hauraki Gulf to the west and the Pacific Ocean to the East.<br />
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We stopped to see the Square Kauri Tree. It is the 15th largest kauri tree on the Coromandel Peninsula and is estimated to be 1,200 years old with a square trunk!.</div>
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Horatio turned 13 and celebrated with square kauri tree photo!</div>
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Geoff and Miriam celebrated their 17 year anniversary while touring the Coromandel peninsula.</div>
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We stopped in Coromandel town and Noah had a scooter break</div>
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While driving the 309 road to see the beautiful landscape, we passed a farm? with pigs and chickens running all over the raod.</div>
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We stopped in Opito Bay, which is the eastern end of the peninsula. </div>
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A very popular tourist attraction is Hot Water Beach. An underground river of hot water flows from the interior of the earth to the surface in the Pacific Ocean. The water can be VERY hot. You bring a shovel and dig your own hot tub!</div>
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Ahh, nice place to relax after a boogie board and swim in the cold ocean.</div>
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After touring the Coromandel Peninsula, we drove back up to Auckland to spend Easter with our friends from SV Pesto. They were coming back to NZ after spending 3 months in Brazil. We wanted to spend time with them as they are winding down their cruising journey. We went with them to the Auckland Zoo and to Rainbow's End, an amusement park, for Horatio's birthday. We thought we would not see them again for another month as we planned on going to the South Island, and they were going to go back up north to Opua, where our boats are located. It turned out, they decided to tour a few places in the South Island with us. We were thrilled!<br />
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Geoff and Noah watching the approaching emu</div>
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Rainbow's End amusement park for Horatio's 13th birthday</div>
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Paulo and Noah flying in space</div>
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On the way down to Wellington, we stayed in Lake Taupo area.</div>
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Geoff and Noah is the pool</div>
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<b>Ferry to the South Island</b><br />
No pictures of the ferry or the scenery as we did this last year, but this time was the first that we saw sheep being transported to the South Island via ferry.<br />
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We took the ferry from Wellington to Picton, which is just north of Blenheim. We drove to Nelson are to visit the Nelson and Golden Bay area north of Nelson.</div>
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We toured Pic's Peanut Butter Factory. </div>
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Delicious Peanut butter with no added sugar or additives. Delicious</div>
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The very small factory. Love the local spirit.</div>
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View of bay in Nelson and </div>
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<b>Hanmer Springs</b></div>
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Drive from Nelson to Hanmer Springs. It snowed and was VERY cold.</div>
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Beautiful snow covered mountains</div>
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View from the top of Conical Hill in Hanmer Springs</div>
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View around Hanmer Springs</div>
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<b>Christchurch</b><br />
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On the drive to Christchurch</div>
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<b>Antarctic Center in Christchurch</b></div>
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Noah is a seal</div>
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Driving a rover</div>
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Husky Zone - Adrina feels how soft their coats are</div>
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Husky Zone - Raquel petting one of the rescued huskies</div>
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Simulator of Antarctic Storm. It was -18 degrees C!</div>
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<b>The Cardboard Cathedral in Christchurch</b></div>
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Inside the church - the beams are made of rolled cardboard<br />
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The tables, chairs, lectern, all made of cardboard</div>
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Downtown Christchurch</div>
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Margaret Mahy playground</div>
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Napier is considered the Art Deco town of New Zealand. After a 7.9 earthquake pretty much destroyed the city in 1931, they decided to rebuild in Art Deco style. They hold the Napier Art Deco Festival every year.<br />
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Getting ready to celebrate ANZAC day</div>
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View of Hawkes Bay. The bay is very large and has quite a large port.</div>
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<b>Back up to the North Island and saying goodbyes.</b> <br />
As the cyclone season starts to end in May, most cruisers start the process of making their way back up to the South Pacific Islands. Usually, Tonga, Fiji, Vanuatu, New Caldenia and Australia or some to continue west to Indonesia, some go north to the Solomons or to the Marshall Islands.<br />
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Saying goodby to our good friends on SV Slow Flight, with SV Me Too, and SV Sky Blue Eyes</div>
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Fair winds and following seas to Slow Flight as they make their way to South Africa, via Vanuatu, Australia, Indonesia, across the Indian ocean. We will miss Kimi and Trevor.</div>
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We waited for several weeks in mid October through most of November for the right "weather window" to take us from Fiji to New Zealand. When you leave Fiji or Tonga area, you wish for a high pressure system that will last the entire time you are on passage. Depending on the size and speed of your boat, it could take between 6-10 days sometimes more to reach Opua, the Bay of Islands in Northland. 3 hours, by car, north of Auckland. But finding a high pressure system that lasts that long is not very typical. So, they always say to leave at the end of a low pressure system and ride most of the way to NZ on the high pressure system. You want to arrive when their is a high passing through the northern tip area of NZ. The weather can become very uncomfortable (lots of choppy waves) and very rough (high seas/swell, sometimes up to 20 feet) if you manage to come in during a low. </div>
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We thought we chose the right weather window, as did several other boats. We had the nice high weather system last the entire passage, but the timing of the waves was very short, about 5 seconds between the next wave. That made the trip entirely choppy for the first 3-4 days. As we got closer to NZ, the last 3 days the wave timing was much longer, which made for a much calmer passage. At least we came in on a high and we felt good coming into the beautiful Bay of Islands. We arrived on November 28th. </div>
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Although it was cloudy, it was nice to see the Bay of Islands again!</div>
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Arriving on the "Q" quaratine dock in Opua Marina</div>
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It was pretty chilly when we arrived, hence the hoodies.</div>
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Since arriving into Opua, the Bay of Islands, we have been working on repairing the deck of our boat. It had minor cracks, no structural damage, just cosmetic. It had been that way since we bought her in 2011, but the cracks, over time, have continued to get bigger. So, we thought, let's repair her here. We are in a good place with lots of clear sunny days, like we remembered from last year.</div>
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Ha ha ha. Apparently, this has been one of the rainiest and most humid summers in the Northland area. We thought this project would take one month at the most, but it has been going on for almost 2 1/2 months now.<br />
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We did have a few nice weeks before the start of the deck repair and enjoyed time with our good friends from SV Pesto before they went to Brazil for the holidays.<br />
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Omata Estate Winery - celebrating Alex's birthday</div>
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Great place for the kids to run through the vineyard and hang out</div>
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Miriam in Whangerai meeting a cockatoo</div>
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In Keri Keri - Stonestore grounds</div>
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Horatio and Raquel jumped from this waterfall!</div>
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Geoff contemplating life while staring at the lilypond</div>
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Adriana, Raquel and Horatio at the lilypond</div>
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While the start of the deck work was just beginning. We signed the kids up for sailing camp. They really enjoyed it last year and the coach is phenomenal. They had a great time. They had a variety of dinghies to choose from. Optimists, Starlings, 420's, Hobie's, TigerShark, 29ers. Great for them to try them all.</div>
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Kids from SV Sang Vind, Ghost, Fluenta, Ballena,</div>
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Horatio and Eskil ready to take the Hobie out</div>
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Noah, Johnathon and Dylan taking out a 420</div>
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Horatio and Eskil take off</div>
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The sailing camp out in Waitangi Bay</div>
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Now for the work to start. First, the removal of all the hardware from the decks. That meant, all of the winches, chain plates, stanchions, blocks, cleats, vents, mast cover around the deck, the dodger frame and cover and both the bow and stern pulpits. Lots of work. Second, taking off the old non-skid took more than two weeks. No amount of sanding or scraping was going to take that stuff off. So, Geoff attacked it with a heat gun and scraper. It took forever. Then sanding it smooth enough to put some epoxy down. Then more sanding. Then faring compound and more sanding. Then base coat, then more sanding. Then primer, light sanding, then paint, then non-skid paint. During all of the this time, it rained a tremendous amount. It felt we could not go more than 2-3 days without it raining. We have also had 3 cyclones pass by NZ. So, the weather has not been very cooperative. In between the rain and trying to paint, was ensuring the interior of the boat was not getting soaked because of all the holes in the deck! </div>
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Some hardware came off, the dodger, windlass, port hole covers, winches, railing, etc</div>
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Starting of the scraping / sanding</div>
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Stanchions came off and more scraping/sanding</div>
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Several weeks to get to this point due to rain</div>
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We did celebrate Christmas on the boat and Geoff took a day off of sanding! And we also met our friends from SV Outer Rim, who were visiting NZ while they were in Australia. We hiked the Mangawhai Heads with them. It was a great day and a nice day off of boat work.</div>
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Our Christmas Tree</div>
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Lots of presents</div>
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Hiking Mangawhai Heads with SV Outer Rim</div>
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Ridge view over the ocean</div>
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Walking back via beach route</div>
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Epoxy on the deck. Nice and shiny and very slippery!</div>
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Primer. It was weird that it was not white. Everyone thought we were painting the boat this color!</div>
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Kids vs. adults.</div>
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Geoff painting aft cabin</div>
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Miriam celebrated her 50th birthday in Auckland with special treats. Lots of dessert!</div>
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Ice cream with a donut!</div>
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Ice cream with chocolate moon</div>
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Ice cream toppers - chocolate art</div>
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More ice cream art - chocolate ice cream toppers</div>
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Rolled ice cream</div>
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Similar to Cold Stone where they mix up all the ingredients on a cold plate</div>
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But they scrap it into thin rolls</div>
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Delicious</div>
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Whopping dessert night!</div>
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While in Auckland, we got to see another Lapworth 50. There were only 6 built. The one below is the number one hull, named Ichiban. The gentleman restoring her was not available, but allowed us to come and look at her. </div>
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Ichiban stripped down to her planks. Lots of work to be done, but amazing how well the work is.</div>
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Miriam got a new anchor for her birthday! Rocna 33kg</div>
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Paint on the decks and cabin top</div>
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Lots of taping and marking</div>
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Noah dabbing</div>
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We decided to sail to the smaller of the main islands, Vanua Levu, to the town of Savu Savu. Our friends from SV Terrapin were there. The plan was to sail there with SV Cape D, and Cape D would leave their boat there for Cyclone season. We would then sail back to Viti Levu with SV Terrapin and catch up with friends again at Musket Cove.</div>
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He had a huge birthday brownie! Happy birthday, Noah!</div>
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Cape D sailing to Lautoka before sailing around the northern part of Vanua Levu.</div>
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Viti Levu to Savusavu in Vanua Levu to meet with SV Terrapin.</div>
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Enough anchored on the other side of Lautoka at a resort on Bekana Island</div>
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Eating pizza at the resort on Bekana</div>
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Fireworks for Fiji Day</div>
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Cape D anchored close to Rakiraki / Nanuya-i-Ra on the northern side of Viti Levu</div>
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On the way to Savusavu we caught a barracuda</div>
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<b>Savusavu</b><br />
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Meeting up with SV Terrapin after 1 1/2 years! </div>
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Our boys, plus Julian from Cape D and Jessica and Emma</div>
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Of course, what would cruising be like with electronics and Roblox</div>
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Science day - boiling eggs in the hot spring right in the middle of town</div>
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Everyone getting a science lesson from Geoff</div>
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Emma placing her egg in the hot spring</div>
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watching them boil</div>
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<b>Yadua Island </b>- on the way back to the main island we anchored out in Yadua Island.<br />
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Remora / sucker fish - swimming next to the boat</div>
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the kids fed them pancakes</div>
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Yadua anchorage</div>
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<b>Back in Lautoka at Bekana Resort</b><br />
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The kids rowing themselves back to the boat because they were bored of the adults</div>
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<b>Musket Cove</b> - back to Musket Cove and met up with more kid boats.<br />
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Kids from SV Pickles, Terrapin, and Pesto</div>
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Celebrating Eleanor's birthday from SV Del Viento</div>
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Donald Trump and a tourist hanging out in Musket Cove</div>
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Phil and Aimee from SV Terrapin on Halloween</div>
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Celebrating our last days in Fiji</div>
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Goodbye beautiful Fiji. On our way back to New Zealand for Cyclone season</div>
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We decided the make our way further north as to see the rest of the Yasawa's. After seeing these places, you can understand why it's such an amazing vacation destination. Fiji knows how to make it easy to get to all of these islands. You can fly, helicopter, sail, or ferry boat to all of these amazing destinations. There are many islands with resorts, but many that have villages that welcome visitors to their villages. It's a nice combination of rural and luxury at the same time.<br />
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We sailed from Musket Cove to <b>Naviti Island</b> with our friends from SV Pesto, where between a channel are suppose to be huge manta rays that come to feed. This place is aptly named Manta Ray Bay. We stayed for a few days and did some snorkeling and swimming, but did not see any rays. It's always hit or miss. I guess this time it was a miss.<br />
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Noah "surfing" in Manta Ray bay</div>
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Horatio surfing</div>
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<b>Tavewa Islands / Nacula Island - The Blue Lagoon</b> (yes, where the movie was filmed)<br />
We sailed further north to anchor at the famous Blue Lagoon area. It really is an amazing place and so peaceful. <br />
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View from hike to the other side of the anchorage</div>
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Destination - Lo's Tea House for donuts!</div>
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Kids with Lo from her Tea house</div>
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Great little hike to Lo's with SV Pesto, SV Cape D, and SV Miss Goodnight</div>
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Ice Cream back at Nanuya Boat Club</div>
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Local farmers delivering groceries to your boat! What service!</div>
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We moved onward to S<b>awa-i-Lau</b>. It is located in the southern end of the main Yasawa Island, which is one of the furthest northern islands of the whole Yasawa Island Group.<br />
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Coming into the bay of Sawa-i-Lau</div>
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Lots of coral underneath to snorkel</div>
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There are the famous caves to visit on this island, but they were charging $50 Fijian dollars per person ($25 USD), but we figured we could skip it so we decided to snorkel instead.</div>
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Entrance to the caves. The women sell their handicrafts</div>
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Like this Spider shell, which is turned into this beautiful necklace</div>
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Horatio and Paulo enjoying the exchange</div>
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<b>Yasawa-i-Rara - </b>Yasawa-i-Rara and Bukama villages</div>
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Anchorage at Yasawa-i-Rara - this place had incredibly </div>
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Local fisherman with their morning catch</div>
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Enormous parrot fish and grouper</div>
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Crayfish and crab - delicious!</div>
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Bukama village vs. Yasawa-i-Rara village rugby match</div>
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The two villages women playing Netball</div>
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Local Bukama boys</div>
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Bukama Village school playground and rugby field</div>
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Cape D anchored in Yasawa-i-Rara cove</div>
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<b>Making our way back south to Waya Island, Octopus Resort - </b>Meke and Lovo (Dancing and traditional Fijian food)<br />
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Up next: Back to the main island of Viti Levu, with our friends from Cape D, before we made our way to the smaller of the two main islands, Vanua Levu to the town of Savu Savu to meet our friends SV Terrapin. We had not seen them for over a year and a half.<br />
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<b>Musket Cove Resort and Marina, Malolo Lailai, Mamanuca Island Group </b><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">We motored out of Vuda Point Marina and made our way to Musket Cove marina to meet our friends from SV Tika. It was a good first stop to test out the new rebuilt engine. We pushed it hard to ensure that the engine was running smooth with no hiccups. It was a good 1 1/2 hour - 2 hour motor ride. It was a nice motor ride and everything was running well! Wup Wup!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Musket Cove is a resort with a marina in the Mamanuca Island chain close to the main island of Viti Levu. There are many small islands in the Mamanuca Island chain. We started from Vuda Point, which is between Lautoka and Nadi on the map below to Malolo Lailai, which is where number 16 is on the map below. Musket Cove Resort and marine is tucked inside between Malolo Lailai and Malolo islands. As you can see from the map, there a many resorts in Fiji. It really is a vacation paradise.</span><br />
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Musket Cove will ruin your calibration of what cruising should be. This place is very welcoming to cruisers, with a yacht club, swimming pool, bar, bbq's, showers and laundry. It does feel like a little paradise.<br />
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Miriam, Geoff and Horatio and Noah at the pool in Musket Cove.</div>
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Marina at Musket Cove. There is also a very large mooring field where we moored.</div>
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Geoff with Greer and Russel from SV Tika.</div>
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Navadra Island, Yasawa Island Group<br />
We spent the night on a mooring and the next day, made our way up to Navadra Island, which is in the Yasawa Island chain. The Yasawa's are just north of the Mamanuca Islands. It is about a 4 hour motor/sail boat ride to Navadra. You wills sail past many beautiful islands and also many resorts. Navadra is not listed in the map below as it is uninhabited. It is the island that is below left of Kuata Island /Waya Island. There are no resorts and no accommodations or amenities/water, etc. It was the perfect place to anchor, snorkel, windsurf, sail and of course have a kid boat camp out!<br />
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<b>Kid Boat Camp Out</b><br />
There ended up being 7 kid boats over the week that showed up for the camp out. It was a great time to catch up with folks that we have not seen in almost a year and also meeting some new kid boats. SV Tika, SV Pesto, SV Sang Vind, SV Skylark, SV Outer Rim, and SV Lil Explorers all showed up.<br />
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Kid boats anchored at Navadra Island</div>
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Meet up on the beach</div>
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Some excited kids</div>
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The adults were kindly asked by the kids to keep separate from them!</div>
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Camp fire before the kids camped out</div>
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The morning after. We thought the kids were still asleep, but </div>
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Sailing and windsurfing in the bay</div>
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The ladies art and coffee morning hosted by Greer from SV Tika</div>
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SV Pesto with the rock that the kids hiked to and climbed, in the background.</div>
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Some boats had to leave and everyone wanted to see a little more, so some separated and some stayed together to discover the Yasawas.</div>
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<b>Musket Cove Marina, Malolo Lailai Island, Yasawa Island Group</b></div>
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We decide to head back to Musket Cove as a big wind was predicted for the area so we wanted to be in a more protected place. Musket Cove is sheltered, but still we felt the effects of 48 knots in the mooring field. </div>
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The morning after the big blow it was still blowing around 30 knots </div>
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View from the backside of the marina</div>
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not sure what kind of bird this is?</div>
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On our way to the organic farm that provides the vegetables for the resort</div>
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A very nice farming operation</div>
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One of the farmers overseeing the farm</div>
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Eggplant, which is very plentiful in Fiji</div>
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Bananas</div>
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Swiss Chard which they call Silver Beet</div>
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Garlic</div>
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Chickens</div>
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Walking on the path next to the airstrip.</div>
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Geoff celebrating his birthday in Musket Cove marina</div>
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Friends joining in for BBQ and cake for Geoff's birthday</div>
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<b style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: large;">Vuda Point Marina - Viti Levu, Fiji - June/July 2017</span></b></div>
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<b><u>Engine Rebuild</u></b></div>
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Vuda Point Marina has a couple of options when wanting to haul out your boat. You can haul out and be placed on the hard stand, where the boat is raised up out of the water to sit on stands on land, so the boat is about 10-20 feet above your head or be placed in a Cyclone Pit. We chose the cyclone pit as this, we felt, had less of "drop" for removing the engine. Also, we would not have to climb so far up and down to get on and off the boat. </div>
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This also came in handy later, as we re-painted the topsides of the boat, and did not need a ladder! We could actually stand on the ground and sand and paint without scaffolding. Score! (well, it seemed like a score considering being in the pit for almost 2 months!)</div>
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Enough in the cyclone pit with sun-shading. It was hot.</div>
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First order of business was to get the engine off the boat so we could get it delivered to All Engineering. An engineering shop in Lautoka ( 2nd largest city on the island of Viti Levu). Geoff tried to remove as much as he could before hand so the engine could actually fit through the compartment hatch. Lots of winching and lines to get it straight out of the engine compartment and swung over and down off the boat.</div>
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Lowering it down onto the truck</div>
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Ready for delivery to All Engineering in Lautoka (city about 15 minutes away from Vuda).</div>
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After getting it delivered to All Engineering, it was determined that they did not have the correct tools to actually take apart the engine compartment! Geoff had them bring the engine back and ran to some engineering shops and was able to borrow the right tool and opened it up himself. He ended up building a work bench himself from scrap wood found around the yard. He took the engine apart himself and only had the new sleeves sent to All Engineering to be pressed in and honed properly. </div>
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Cracked rings on the pistons and holes. 3 out of 4 looked like this!</div>
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Cracked and chipped sleeves.</div>
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This was actually a new sleeve that we ordered and was sent to us and ended up being cracked. We had to wait another 2 weeks for another one to be shipped. </div>
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Horatio learning about re-building an engine</div>
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Geoff standing in the engine compartment ready to fit the pan back in. </div>
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The pan was re-epoxied and painted</div>
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Ready for the newly re-built engine to go back in</div>
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From here, Geoff attached everything, nuts, bolts, hoses, etc., back in the right places and ensured everything looked good.</div>
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Geoff ran water to the boat and then tried to start the engine. Success! It sounded really good also!</div>
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One of the reasons why we spent two months in Vuda, was the amount of time to get parts shipped. Around 2 weeks for delivery. Also, we had parts that were damaged and needed to be shipped again. Geoff also went to S. Korea for work and that was about 3 weeks. Getting the sleeves put in and honed took another few weeks. All in all, Geoff said it would have been cheaper and faster to buy a new block and install it himself. Oh, well, lessons learned.</div>
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We did enjoy a weekend away from Vuda while waiting for parts. We went to Suva, the capitol of Fiji. It is their largest city and is a main port. We went to check out the city, but also to see a Fiji rugby match. We had never seen or been to one, so it was an adventure. We took the bus from Lautoka to Vuda-about 4.5 hours. Nice scenery along the way, sorry, no photos. In Suva, they have a very large fresh fruit and veggie market. It was great. All produce is so inexpensive. You can get a "heap" of eggplant, about 5-8 pieces, for only $2 Fijian dollars, which is $1 US dollar! Bag of carrots or green beans or tomatoes or cassava or squash for $2 Fijian dollars. Pineapple and bananas and papaya!</div>
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After completing the engine rebuild, we were ready to start cruising and seeing the islands. First was a "kid boat camp out" on Navadra Island in the Yasawa island chain.</div>
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<i>Yes, we are woefully
behind on our blog. Since we last
posted, we were getting ready to leave New Zealand and sail to Tonga. As of today (Dec 2017), we are back in New
Zealand from Fiji for another cyclone / NZ summer season. Not sure why it has become difficult to
continue to update our blog. Maybe
posting some pictures on Facebook seemed to be enough, but really, it must be
that I (Miriam) am lazy. Some people
might think that cruising is just full of cocktails and sunsets. Sometimes it is like that, but lots of times
there is a lot of work involved. From
constant cleaning, cooking, maintenance, and homeschooling, and weather/passage
planning/making and boat repairs. So, in
doing all of these things, sometimes the blog gets put aside. I originally wanted to blog so that we would
have something nice to look back upon, especially for the kids. A nice memento of our time together before
they grew up and moved on to their own adventures. So, back at it.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<b>Whangarei /Marsden Point Marina,
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We had hauled out the boat in April to replace the keel boats and now finalizing our last weeks in Whangarei before getting ready to depart for Fiji. </div>
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Enough getting ready to go back in the water</div>
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We had bought a car to travel around NZ and thought we would sell it. So, we put it up on Trade Me (kind of like Craigslist/eBay). But after a week, we decided to just keep the car and come back for it next season. Yes, we were going to come back to NZ! </div>
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The kids spent their last few weeks at a Minecraft camp and went to the beach for the last days of summer.</div>
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Ocean Beach in the Whangarei Heads with SV Jade</div>
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Maori good bye performance for cruisers leaving NZ</div>
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We moved from Whangarei Marina to Marsden Point Marina as it was closer to the ocean and we could clear with Customs and Immigration. Just waiting for the right weather
window. Our Visas were due to expire on
May 24, and we thought we would have left by then as we originally planned on
leaving around the 20<sup>th</sup>.
Well, a low-pressure system showed up and made our minds up that we were
going to wait, which meant extending our Visas for just a little bit
longer. We really only needed to extend for
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Marsden Point Marina - getting ready for departure</div>
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We left Marsden Point on May 26th and had a ok first night. A little rolly, but not enough to g<b>e</b>t seasick over. By the 2nd day, the weather was great. Nice easy 15 knot winds on the beam. But the wind started to die and we ended up having to motor. We were trying to reach Tonga in time for our friend's son's birthday in Vavau. We had been to Tonga the season before and really enjoyed it, but was really looking for to it, as we were planning on meeting friends we had not seen since French Polynesia. SV Pesto and SV Sang Vind and hopefully our friends on SV Tika as they were possibly heading up from the Ha'apai group in Tonga. We motored for about 15-20 hours not wanting to get caught in any possible bad weather approaching, but also to just see our friends. </div>
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Unfortunately, Geoff smelled something bad and then noticed smoke coming out of the engine compartment. We did not know at the time what was wrong, but knew the engine sounded really bad and would not stop smoking. The alarms were going off on the boat and it was noisy and smelly. We had to decide what to do. We could not look at the engine while under way, so we decided to stop in Minerva Reef to determine what was wrong and if possible, fixing it while at anchor in Minerva Reef. At least the wind did pick up and we could sail to Minerva Reef. We ended up anchoring in South Minerva Reef. We did need to start the engine again to come into the Reef. That was very nerve wracking as we did not know if the engine would fail and we could possibly end up on the reef as the entrance is narrow and the wind was not blowing up into the reef, but to the side. We made it in and anchored right at sunset. Whew! Geoff was able to look at the engine the next morning, and made a possible diagnosis that we probably took on bad fuel and now our engine had failed. With this very sad news, we made the decision to sail to Fiji. As Tonga has no real boat yard for haul out or any suppliers with parts that could help us repair the engine. So, we informed our friends via Iridium Mail, that we would be heading to Fiji and would hopefully see them as they made their way to Fiji in the next couple of months. Sigh...</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Minvera Reef, two submerged atolls in the South Pacific south of Tonga and Fiji. We anchored in South Minerva, the one that looks like an infinity symbol or figure 8. We anchored in North Minerva the year before as we made our way down from Tonga to New Zealand.</span></div>
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Now, getting to Fiji without an engine. Hoping the wind would continue to be favorable so that we could sail the whole way. If there was no wind, we did not have a chance of motoring there. We waited for a day or two and luckily, the wind was good, 15-20 knots for the next several days. The last day the wind increased to 30 knots on the nose and getting into the pass to Viti Levu, Fiji's big island, was a challenge. The winds have a cape effect coming from east to west and really sweep around the corner where the pass entrance is. We could see the pass, but getting there took several more hours that we had anticipated and it was a bumpy ride. </div>
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We made it into the pass and the wind was nice and calm, 12 knots, so we were able to sail the next couple of hours to the Quarantine buoy of Vuda Marina! We were so relieved and exhausted. We were able to come into the marina and get checked in and finally rest!</div>
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Viti Levu - the big island of Fiji</div>
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The warmest and friendliest greeting from the folks at Vuda Marina. </div>
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We had to make it back to our boat in Opua as Geoff was going to work in South Korea for about 3 weeks. We raced back from the South Island and took the boat down about 80 miles to the town of Whangarei. They have a great marina in the Town Basin and is close to everything in town. There was lots to do and the kids and Miriam had great friends to hang out with. As Geoff was away, we enrolled the boys in the local school, Whangarei Intermediate, so they (and Miriam) could take a break from "boat school".<br />
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Sharron (Whangarei Marina), Michelle (SV Jade) and Miriam </div>
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at the Fancy Dress (costume) Dock party in the Whangarei Marina</div>
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Kai (SV Tika) celebrates his 13th birthday at Naylene and Phil's ranch. </div>
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We camped out and had a great night.</div>
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Greer baked an amazing mocha cake!</div>
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Eric and Vandy from SV Scoots around the campfire</div>
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Camping fun</div>
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Lots of folks from the marina joined in for the day of camping fun</div>
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The next day, we had ice cream before Tika left to sail to the South Island.</div>
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Some fun activities while in Whangarei - Zumba!</div>
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Noah and Ferne joined a Zumba class with us</div>
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Horatio and Noah in their school uniforms</div>
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First day of school - Noah, Noah (SV Jade) and Horatio</div>
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Noah with a fresh head. Nice haircut.</div>
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Noah's Year 7 teacher performing at the Love Mussel restaurant and bar. </div>
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Bowling and Laser tag in the same building!!</div>
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Sinking - one of the unfortunate things that can happen to boats. </div>
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Lots of folks from the marina rallied together to help save the boat.</div>
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Lots of water came rushing off the boat once the pumps were set up.</div>
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The boat did not sink and is now dry and being repaired due to the water damage.</div>
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We got tickets to the WOMAD,world music and dance, festival that was being held in Taranaki. </div>
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4.5 hour drive SE of Whangarei. Another long drive, but worth it!</div>
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Jade caravanned with us and Tika sailed to New Plymouth/Taranaki and our friends from Nogal flew from Australia to all join together for this incredibly fun 3 day festival.</div>
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Food and Fun with Friends</div>
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Jade, Tika, and Nogal and Enough </div>
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They had a Kid's Activity Center and the boys made this amazing cardboard house</div>
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The house was our meeting point with the kids during the festival as the grounds were very large and very spread out.</div>
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One of the really inventive artists at WOMAD. La Cymbalobylette from France. Horns, cymbals an bells work by peddling this bike.</div>
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<b>A day in Auckland with friends from Hawaii</b></div>
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The Mehta's. Friends from the San Francisco bay area that now live in Hawaii happened to be in Auckland for the day. We spent the afternoon with them on Horatio's Birthday.</div>
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Back at the marina, Horatio had cake and brownies for his birthday cake</div>
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12 candles! </div>
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Clothes exchange evening at Sharron's house. </div>
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Great evening to meet new friends and exchange clothes</div>
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Easter Egg hunt</div>
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While the boat was being hauled out, we rented a house across the street from the marina. It was a great location and had great views. </div>
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Having Easter Brunch with SV Jade and SV Velic</div>
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Fun day at Ocean Beach in the Whangarei Heads.</div>
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Time if coming for us to leave New Zealand and head back to the islands as cyclone season is almost over. Seems to still be in effect, though! Lots of late cyclone activit. But knowing that we would be leaving soon, we would need to haul out and at least paint the bottom. Geoff also wanted to make sure the keel bolts on our boat were still good as we did not know if they had ever been replaced or maintained. So, we hauled out and Geoff managed to pull all the keel bolts out. The good news was that luckily only 2 were bad, but the bad news was that the two that were bad were under the galley. So, they galley had to be taken apart! <br />
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After, with the new bolts in place</div>
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Almost ready for paint</div>
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Ready to be lifted and then back in the water.</div>
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Starting the road trip to the South Island meant actually getting from the North Island to the northern part of the South Island first. We drove from Opua (close to Paihia on the map below) to Wellington so we could catch the ferry to Picton on the South Island.<br />
We could have made the drive straight from Opua to Wellington in a day, but decided to break it up by staying in Turangi overnight. Overall it is about 900 kilometers (560 miles) from Opua to Wellington. It might not seem like a lot of distance, but New Zealand's max speed limit is 100 km/per (62 miles/hr). Which might seem low, but all the roads, except around Auckland, are two lane and very curvy and hilly. It can be challenging to drive, especially learning with a right hand drive car on the left hand side of the road. <br />
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To save money, we decided that camping would be a good option as New Zealand is packed with amazing Holiday Camp Sites. Most camp sites are fully equipped with kitchens, toilets, hot showers and some have cabins that are bunk rooms or some similar to a motel rooms with kitchenettes. It is something that the United States should definitely follow. You do pay to camp, but it is worth it to have a place to cook(indoors) and have clean toilets and hot showers!<br />
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From Picton, we went west a little to the Marlborough Sounds, and then back east Blenheim, which is north of Kaikoura. From Blenheim, to Hanmer Springs (inland), to Christchurch, to Akaroa (coast of Christchurch), to Oamaru, to Dunedin, to Invergargill, to Te Anau, to Milford, to Queenstown, to Arrowtown, Wanaka, Franz Josef Glacier, to Greymouth, back to Picton. We had to miss the Nelson/Golden Bay area since we needed to get back to the North Island. Wish we could have seen more.<br />
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<b>Wellington</b><br />
We made it to Wellington and there happened to be a Chinese New Year celebration. Year of the Rooster. Geoff and Horatio both happen to be born the year of the Rooster!<br />
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We set up camp just north of Wellington in the town of Lower Hutt. </div>
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Windy Wellington. It happened to be blowing 50 mph that day! </div>
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Most folks thought it was a normal day!</div>
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Beautiful glass and art at the Te Papa National Museum</div>
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Some folks say Wellington is like San Francisco, very hilly.</div>
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View of the harbor from Mt. Victoria</div>
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St. Paul's - made of timber</div>
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Wellington Botanic Park</div>
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Geoff on the Interislander Ferry. The Ferry took 4 hours from Wellington to Picton.</div>
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For some reason, I have no photos of our landing in Picton or pictures of us in Blenheim at the Omaka Air Museum or of our trip to Hanmer Springs where they have hot spring pools. That was several days worth of great sites. Sigh...</div>
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<b>Christchurch</b></div>
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The kids did the Adventure Park in Christchurch. Lots of climbing and zip lining. <b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><br />
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We visited the<b> Willowbank Wildlife Reserve</b>. We got to see lots of animals, some native and local wildlife.</div>
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Kunekune Pig</div>
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We had heard to not visit Christchurch due to all the re-building/construction going on due to the past earthquake, 2011, destruction. We decided to visit anyway and really were taken by the pride and can-do attitude of the locals.<br />
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After earthquake - Scoffolding around the church</div>
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Geoff and Horatio at the Tram high above Christchurch</div>
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Is 120km north of Dunedin on the Pacific Coast<br />
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We camped next door to the <b>Steampunk playground </b>in the harbor</div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Outside of the imposing free-standing stone building, a coin-operated "steampunk" </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam_engine" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none;" title="Steam engine">engine</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> greets visitors, complete with lights, engine and train while noises, and fire breathing out of its chimney. The building's exterior walls are decorated with creations such as giant flies made from metal and industrial parts.</span><br />
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Seal sunning in the harbor</div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Invercargill is the</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="font-family: sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">southernmost and westernmost city in New Zealand, and one of the southernmost cities in the world. It is the commercial centre of the Southland region. It lies in the heart of the wide expanse of the Southland Plains on the Oreti or New River some 18 km north of Bluff, which is the southernmost town in the South Island. It sits amid rich farmland that is bordered by large areas of conservation land and marine reserves, including Fiordland National Park covering the south-west corner of the South Island and the Catlins coastal region.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Many streets in the city, especially in the centre and main shopping district, are named after rivers in Great Britain, mainly Scotland. These include the main streets Dee and Tay, as well as those named after the Forth, Tyne, Esk, Don, Thames, Mersey, Ness, Yarrow, Spey and Eye rivers.</span></span></div>
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Water Tower and Civic Theatre in downtown Invercargill</div>
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Replica of Burt Munro's World's Fastest Indian</div>
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The most southern point of New Zealand (besides Stewart Island)</div>
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The drive from Te Anau borders the Fiordland National Park. It is stunning!</div>
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Vast valley view</div>
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From valley to snow capped mountains</div>
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Milford Sound waterfall</div>
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calm waters in the Milford Sound</div>
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Kea - Alpine parrot - They like to eat rubber of all things. </div>
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<b>Arrowtown</b></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Arrowtown, 20 minutes from Queenstown, is a historic gold mining town in the Otago region of the South Island of New Zealand. Arrowtown is located on the banks of the Arrow River. Gold was</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">found in 1862 and it changed this small town to a Gold Mining town. </span></span></div>
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Arrowtown in 1905</div>
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Arrowtown 2017</div>
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A little bit of magic in downtown Arrowtown</div>
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Gold panning in the Arrow River</div>
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Maybe there will be some gold</div>
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Driving from Arrowtown to Queenstown</div>
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Queenstown</div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Queenstown sits on the shores of the South Island’s Lake Wakatipu, set against the dramatic Southern Alps. Renowned for adventure sports, it’s also a base for exploring the region’s vineyards and historic mining towns. There's bungee jumping off Kawarau Gorge Suspension Bridge and jet-boating on the Shotover and Dart rivers. In winter, there's skiing on the slopes of The Remarkables and Coronet Peak.</span></span></div>
We did not participate in any of the adventure sports as they were quite expensive, but there was certainly a lot going on if you were inclined.<br />
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The Remarkables mountain and someone bungy jumping with Lake Wakatipu in the background - from wikipedia as there was not that much snow on the Remarkables when we were there.<br />
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View of Lake Wakatipu from the Gondola</div>
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Noah holding up the Leaning Tower of Wanaka</div>
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Puzzling World in <b>Wanaka. </b></div>
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Great place with an outdoor maze. It was actually fun and challenging.</div>
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Public toilets!</div>
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On the way to Franz Joseph Glacier</div>
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Franz Joseph Glacier</div>
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The hike was wet and rainy, but we made it for this photo before it,of course, became sunny!</div>
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Waterfalls at Franz Joseph</div>
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<b>Punakaki</b></div>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #664b1c; font-family: inherit;">Punakaiki is the gateway to the dramatic limestone country of the Paparoa National Park. It lies halfway between Greymouth and Westport on one of the most spectacular coastal highways in New Zealand. It's on the west coast just north of Greymouth. </span><br />
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It was amazing to see the ocean splashing against these rocks.</div>
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<b>North Minerva Reef - Bay of Islands, New Zealand</b><br />
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The <b>Minerva Reefs, </b>briefly de facto independent in 1972 as the <b>Republic of Minerva</b>, are a group of two submerged <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atoll" title="Atoll">atolls</a> located in the Pacific Ocean south of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiji" title="Fiji">Fiji</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonga" title="Tonga">Tonga</a><br />
Tonga’s claim was recognized by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Islands_Forum" title="Pacific Islands Forum">South Pacific Forum</a> in September 1972. <br />
In 2005, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiji" title="Fiji">Fiji</a> made it clear that they did not recognize any maritime water claims by Tonga to the Minerva Reefs. In November 2005, Fiji lodged a complaint with the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Seabed_Authority" title="International Seabed Authority">International Seabed Authority</a> concerning Tonga's maritime waters claims surrounding Minerva. Tonga lodged a counter claim, and the Principality of Minerva <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micronation" title="Micronation">micronation</a> claimed to have lodged a counter claim. In 2010 the Fijian Navy destroyed navigation lights at the entrance to the lagoon. In late May 2011, they again destroyed navigational equipment installed by Tongans. In early June 2011, two <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Tongan_Navy" title="Royal Tongan Navy">Royal Tongan Navy</a> ships were sent to the reef to replace the equipment, and to reassert Tonga's claim to the territory. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Fiji_Military_Forces#The_Fijian_Navy" title="Republic of Fiji Military Forces">Fijian Navy</a> ships in the vicinity reportedly withdrew as the Tongans approached.<br />
In an effort to settle the dispute, the government of Tonga revealed a proposal in early July 2014 to give the Minerva Reefs to Fiji in exchange for the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lau_Islands" title="Lau Islands">Lau Group</a> of islands. In a statement to the <i>Tonga Daily News</i>, Lands Minister <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ma%CA%BBafu_Tukui%CA%BBaulahi" title="Maʻafu Tukuiʻaulahi">Lord Maʻafu Tukuiʻaulahi</a> announced that he would make the proposal to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minister_for_Foreign_Affairs_(Fiji)" title="Minister for Foreign Affairs (Fiji)">Fiji's Minister for Foreign Affairs</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inoke_Kubuabola" title="Inoke Kubuabola">Ratu Inoke Kubuabola</a>. Some Tongans have Lauan ancestors and many Lauans have Tongan ancestors; Tonga's Lands Minister is named after <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enele_Ma%27afu" title="Enele Ma'afu">Enele Ma'afu</a>, the Tongan Prince who originally claimed parts of Lau for Tonga. As of today, the Lau Group still belongs to Fiji.<br />
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North Minerva Reef diameter is about 5.6 kilometres (3.5 mi), South Minerva Reef diameter is about 4.8 kilometres (3.0 mi). The two atolls are on dormant volcanic seamounts.<br />
Both Minerva Reefs are about 435 kilometres (270 mi) southwest of the Tongatapu Group. The atolls are on a common submarine platform from 549 to 1,097 metres (1,801 to 3,599 ft) below the surface of the sea. North Minerva is circular in shape and has a diameter of about 5.6 kilometres (3.5 mi). There is a small sand bar around the atoll, awash at high tide, with a small entrance into the flat lagoon with a somewhat deep harbor. South Minerva is parted into The East Reef and the West Reef, both circular with a diameter of about 4.8 kilometres (3.0 mi). Remnants of shipwrecks and platforms remain on the atolls, plus functioning navigation beacons.<br />
Geologically, Minerva Reef is of a limestone base formed from uplifted coral formations elevated by now-dormant volcanic activity.<br />
The climate is basically subtropical with a distinct warm period (December–April), during which the temperatures rise above 32 °C (90 °F), and a cooler period (May–November), with temperatures rarely rising above 27 °C (80 °F). The temperature increases from 23 °C to 27 °C (74 °F to 80 °F), and the annual rainfall is from 170 to 297 centimeters (67–117 in.) as one moves from Cardea in the south to the more northerly islands closer to the Equator. The mean daily humidity is 80 percent.<br />
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Aerial picture of North and South Minerva Reef. We anchored in the North Reef (pictured right)</div>
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Geoff standing on the reef with the vast Pacific Ocean just on the other side of the waves</div>
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Friends from SV Free Spirit and SV Jade walking the reef</div>
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Horatio and Ferne (SV Jade) walking the reef </div>
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Looking at the sea life</div>
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It was really great to feel protected inside the reef from the ocean that was only a few feet from where we were walking!</div>
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Beautiful fish in the colorful reef</div>
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Geoff and Noah (SV Jade) jumped into a chasm </div>
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Amazing amount of lobster-crayfish</div>
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Pizza delivery in Minerva Reef</div>
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Noah and Ferne from SV Jade decided to make and sell pizza in the Minerva Reef to raise money for the Kiwi birds in New Zealand. Horatio and Noah were very excited to participate in taking pizza orders from the boats in the reef and also making homemade pizza dough and baking pizzas! It was a huge success and they actually made the newspaper in New Zealand for the service to the Kiwi birds.</div>
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Kiteboarding in the Reef</div>
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When the weather improved, There was a mass exodus of the reef and everyone started making their way for New Zealand. We encountered lots of dolphins on the way.</div>
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Map of North East coast of the North Island, NZ. We arrived in the town of Opua, Bay of Islands </div>
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Horatio excited to see land! Bay of Islands, New Zealand!</div>
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We had a great passage with good weather and wind until the last 2 days when there was very little to no wind. But no wind is better than squalls and gales! </div>
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Entering the Bay of Islands, New Zealand.</div>
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Geoff taking in the beautiful views</div>
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One of the many islands in the Bay of Islands.</div>
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Amazing homes with great views</div>
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Can't go anywhere without seeing a cruise ship</div>
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Town of Paihia</div>
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Entering Opua</div>
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We arrived in Opua, New Zealand on November 24th! <b>Thanksgiving</b>! After clearing in with Customs and Immigration, we decided we could use a real Thanksgiving Dinner. We had not had one in several years and last year was beans and tortillas in Mexico! We did not know if Kiwi's celebrated Thanksgiving, but the local yacht club was serving Thanksgiving dinner. We were very thankful!</div>
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Thanksgiving Dinner at the Opua Yacht Club</div>
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Time to take in the sites. We <b>walked from the town of Opua to the town of Paihia</b>. About 6 miles.</div>
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SV Jade and SV Free Spirit on the walk with us</div>
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The kids climbing a viewing tower that was on the trail</div>
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The local yacht clubs have a <b>kids Wednesday night sailing program</b> that we got the kids involved in. The coach was amazing with the children and they all had such a great time. Here are the kids sailing in Optimists and Splashes.</div>
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Horatio and Josh (SV Carpe Diem) heading or the mark</div>
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Time for some local fun! <b>Christmas Parade in the town of Paihia</b></div>
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Horatio and Noah with kids from SV Tika and SV Skylark enjoying free ice cream!</div>
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Starfish</div>
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Sharks and waves</div>
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Just 15 minutes from the town of Opua is <b>Kawa Kawa</b>. The town is famous for their public toilet that was designed by <b>Friedensreich Hundertwasser</b>. He was an Austrian born New Zealand architect who also worked in the environmental protection field. He was born in 1928 and died in 2000. An art gallery featuring Hundertwasser's work will be established in a council building in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whangarei" title="Whangarei">Whangarei</a>, New Zealand, and will bring to fruition his 1993 plans for improving the building.<br />
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Public Toilet in Kawa Kawa</div>
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Hundertwasser wall</div>
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Noah in front of the Public Toilet</div>
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The town of Kawa Kawa with rolling hills and cows!</div>
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Noah and Geoff at the train station</div>
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We spent some time discovering a few of the islands in the <b>Bay of Islands</b>. Some aerial views.<br />
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Enough anchored at Motorua Island</div>
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The kids find a way to get to the beach off the boats via paddleboards</div>
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View from hiking the island</div>
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We hiked with SV Tika and SV Skylark to the other side of Motorua and the kids ran for the beach</div>
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We signed the kids up for a week long <b>sailing camp</b> <b>in Waitangi</b> (next to the town of Paihia). They had a great week and got to meet some new friends.</div>
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The coach, Robbs, giving the kids the plan for the day.</div>
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Kai, Jaiya, Russ (SV Tika) Noah and Geoff getting the Opti's ready</div>
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Heading into the water</div>
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Getting the Sunbursts in the water</div>
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The 420's out in the water</div>
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We took a day trip to<b> Auckland</b></div>
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Skyline view with the city with SkyCity tower </div>
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Miriam and Horatio at the waterfront</div>
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They revitalized the area with great container architecture</div>
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Horatio and Noah having fun climbing</div>
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The town of Russell in the Bay of Islands has a winery in the hills. We visited the <b>Omata Estates</b> winery with SV Tika and their parents. Great day for lunch and wine.</div>
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Lunch with incredible views</div>
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Walking through the vineyard</div>
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The <b>town of Russell</b>, where we caught the Ferry back to Opua.</div>
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Jaiya climbing the tree</div>
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All the kids making their way up the tree</div>
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We got a free week stay at a lodge in Turangi, NZ. We had no idea where that was, but decided that a week off the boat for Christmas would be a welcome change. Turangi is located in the central part of the North Island. About 5 hours south of Opua. Long drive!</div>
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Our Christmas Tree</div>
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We got to visit my good friend from San Francisco who is from NZ, who was visiting her parents for Christmas in the town of Hamilton.</div>
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We took a hike in the <b>Tongariro National Park.</b></div>
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Noah frog jumping in front of the Tongariro Lodge</div>
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Mt. Ruapehu (ski mountain) in the background.</div>
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Beautifully clear and cold streams</div>
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Great waterfall hike</div>
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On our way back to Opua, we toured a little bit of <b>Taupo and Rotorua</b> area.</div>
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Noah catching prawns at the <b>Huka Prawn Park</b></div>
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Miriam with the Huka Prawn</div>
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Horatio and Noah Prawn Fishing</div>
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PRAWN!</div>
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Paddling in the Prawn Park</div>
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Huka Falls</div>
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<b>Agrodome in Rotorua</b></div>
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Sheep show - they showed at least 14 different types of sheep</div>
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Sheepdog on the sheep</div>
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Shearing a sheep</div>
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Sweet sheep</div>
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Belted Galloway cow on the Agrodome farm</div>
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Lots of Alpaca</div>
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The lone llama</div>
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Back in the Bay of Island, Opua Marina.</div>
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Happy New Year! Fireworks seen from our boat.</div>
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We took a trip to the northern tip of the North Island. <b>Cape Reinga</b></div>
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Northern tip of New Zealand</div>
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<b>Lighthouse on Cape Reinga</b> </div>
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Cape Reinga - where the waters from the Pacific Ocean meet the Coral Sea</div>
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Sand boarding at <b>Te Paki Sand Dunes</b></div>
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There goes Horatio</div>
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Noah and Geoff on their way down</div>
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<b>Back in the Bay of Islands</b></div>
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Horatio, Noah, and Kai sailing Tika Taka - SV Tika's sailing dinghy</div>
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The kids spent a whole day sailing in Tika Taka discovering the neighboring islands.</div>
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<b>Rainbow Falls - Keri Keri</b></div>
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Jumping off the cliff from the Falls.</div>
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<b>Tonga</b> August/September2016<o:p></o:p><w:sdtpr></w:sdtpr></div>
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The Kingdom of Tonga is the only remaining Polynesian
monarchy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is one of the very first
countries to see the dawn of every new day, as we discovered we were one day
ahead of Niue, and most everyone else in the world, once we reached Tonga.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Tongan archipelago consists of 176
islands, which only 40 are inhabited.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>There are the low lying groups of Tongatapu, where the capital
Nuku’alofa is located and where the Royal Palace is located.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The middle Ha’apai group, consisting of
volcanic and coral islands, then the Vava’u group, with raised and mountainous
coral islands.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is also a very far
north volcanic island group called Niuas.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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Tonga has never been colonized by a foreign power, but like
most of the South Pacific, saw lots of missionaries, and is heavily Christian
and very conservative.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All sporting
activities are banned on Sundays and so is work, so almost all stores are
closed including the airport.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sundays
are devoted to church and family.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
only thing we have found opened are the very few restaurants for the tourists.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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We had a two day passage from Niue to Vava’u.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Due to slowing of wind and big swell, we
ended up coming into Vavau at night, or really, very early morning, 2 am.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We arrived at the pass entrance around 1:30
am, but it took about 30 minutes to navigate what seemed like a long winding
canal into the harbor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We typically do
not ever come into a harbor or anchorage at night due to, of course, everything
being very dark and the inability to see anything, especially obstructions in
the water, but we had heard from friends on other boats that had come into
Neiafu Harbor at night and they had said it was not obstructed and could be
easily navigated.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With no moon or stars
and very few harbor lights, we did manage to make our way into the harbor and
grab a mooring ball without hitting any other boats that did not have their
anchor lights on!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By 2:15 am we were
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We could not believe how many boats were in the harbor when
we woke up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With only about 5 other
boats in Niue with us, it was a shock to see about 20 boats in the mooring
field in Neiafu Harbor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We know that
there are many anchorages throughout Vava’u, as there are 176 islands
throughout all of Tonga, with 80% of them being in Vava’u, so we knew there
were many other boats anchored throughout the islands, also.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Being in Neiafu felt like we were back in La
Cruz, Mexico.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They have their own
Cruiser’s Net every morning at 8:30.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
local businesses that support the cruisers run the Net and are incredibly
helpful with daily if not several times daily weather reports, diving, whales
watching activities, dining/restaurant menu questions, boat repair support and
anything else.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was weird being back
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Like most new place when we arrive, we like to stretch our
legs and get a feel for the town.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It did
not take long to walk the main road in Neifu, about 10-15 minutes at the most
if you were looking around. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We saw a
beautiful church and the local fresh veggie and fruit market (which is open all
day as opposed to opening very early morning and closing by mid-morning).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There are about 6 café/restaurants and about
the same for local grocery stores.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
small grocery stores are all the same with a few exceptions that you might find
one or two items that each store carries different from another, so you really
need to shop at each one!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One might have
really good cheese, one might have good bread, one might carry granola or
muesli, etc.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was fun to discover all
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We spent almost two months in Tonga and really enjoyed the tranquility of the islands and the friendliness of the locals. We spent lots of time in different anchorages and enjoyed the beauty of the clear water. We spent lots of time with SV Jade, whom we had only met when we arrived in Tonga and have become fast friends. I think kid boats tend to gravitate toward each other for the sake of our children and our sanity! </div>
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Holy Door of Mercy Catholic church</div>
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Local produce market</div>
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School boys hanging out after school</div>
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10 Candles!</div>
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Vavau is known for the many spectacular islands with lots of
diving and swimming. The first stop was
Port Maurelle. Great sand beach for a
bonfire and a kid’s camp out.<o:p></o:p><br />
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The Noah's standing in front of their lean-to tent.</div>
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Eating beans out of a can in front of the fire</div>
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Beach bonfire and potluck</div>
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Just monkeying around</div>
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Horatio caught a rainbow runner on our way to another anchorage</div>
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Lunch with Nogal and Jade at the Dancing Rooster restaurant</div>
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We decided to try a tapas restaurant called Maria’s on the
island of Tapana. It was about a 1 hour
sail and east from Port Maurelle. They
have one mooring ball in front of their beach, but plenty of places to anchor. The kids went for a swim in the clear water
the minute we anchored and found hundreds of starfish all around our boat. Beautiful!
We had dinner in the evening with our friends from Nogal and Jade at
Maria’s Tapana Island Tapas. It truly
delicious and what a find to have tapas in Tonga! The children got to play with a new baby goat
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Amazingly large starfish at the anchorage in front of Maria's Paella restaurant</div>
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Starfish bigger than Horatio's head</div>
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Enough, Jade and Nogal kids at Maria's Paella restaurant</div>
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Even the local baby goat came to visit</div>
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Flash mob at the local market. Beautiful singing.</div>
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View of Neifu harbor from a hike up the hill</div>
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Lots of pigs running free throughout the islands</div>
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We participated in the Vava’u Blue Water Festival which was
sponsored by New Zealand marinas (Bay of Islands and Whangarei) to benefit the
Blue Water School in Vava’u. The Blue
Water school in Vava’u is an organization that helps the children of Vava’u
learn and raise awareness about their water eco-system, water safety and of
course sailing. They raise money so the
children can have dinghies to sail. One
of the local pre-schools held a parade and then had a very nice parent
sponsored lunch and performances by the local preschoolers. It was one of the nicest events as it was
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Local school children welcoming us to Vavau</div>
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Singing and dancing in traditional clothing.</div>
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Horatio pinning a $2 bill (tradition) onto their clothing</div>
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Such cute children and beautiful handmade outfits.</div>
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Local school band performing at the Bluewater Festival</div>
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Dinner with Velic and Jade during Bluewater Festival at the Aquarium restaurant</div>
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The kids enjoying pizza!</div>
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Ferne from SV Jade saying "Hello" from up high</div>
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SV Velic during moonrise</div>
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SV Jade's Alex pulling Ferne around the anchorage</div>
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Fetoko Island. Tree house cabins on a very tiny island. So awesome.</div>
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Enough anchored in front of Fetoko Island</div>
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One of the tree houses on Fetoko Island.</div>
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We spent almost 2 months in Tonga visiting different islands
in Vava’u group. In the beginning we
thought it would not be very exciting, because there was not a lot to offer in
terms of provisioning or things to do in town, but the islands are truly
wonderful to visit and snorkel and hike.<o:p></o:p></div>
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We knew we would have to make our way to New Zealand soon as
the weather for cyclone season was soon approaching. Everyone says that you need to be out of
Tonga by mid-late November. So, we
decided we should make our way south and see the Ha’apai Group and then
Tongatapu to check out.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Halloween on SV Jade while in the Ha'apai Group</div>
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Pigs on the beach on the island of Oua in the Ha'apai group</div>
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We dropped school supplies of at the local school in Oua.</div>
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Pita, local farmer on Oua, gave us so much fruit and veg. </div>
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So generous and very informative. We saw how all of these were grown - kumara (sweet potato), spinach, onions, tobacco, mango, papaya, bananas, cassava, lotus root and more.</div>
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<b>Rarotonga and Niue August 2016</b><o:p></o:p><w:sdtpr></w:sdtpr></div>
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We were so happy to discover some family history.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Geoff and the boy's great great great uncle
was buried in Rarotonga.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Their great
great great great grandmother was also buried in Rarotonga, but we could not
find her gravestone, it is probably one where the print was already worn
away.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The National Archives was so
helpful and provided us with lots of family information that we still have not
had time to review, as we need good wifi to do it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They said they would even send old newspaper
articles and clippings that made it into their archives.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was very exciting that we were able to
come to the one of 15 islands and find that it was the one island where the
family had lived.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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shaft, which is a pretty high point on the island. We started from the harbor
and walked into the local neighborhood and past the local power plant.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was very lush with lots of plantations and
farms.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We saw lots of pigs that we just
so happy eating and sleeping.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Overall, we have to say that we were so pleasantly surprised
with how much we enjoyed Rarotonga.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Incredibly nice people, beautiful scenery and very laid back.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Beginning of the walk to the Needle</div>
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Different terrain</div>
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Geoff giving the pig a coconut</div>
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Papaya trees</div>
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Noah and Horatio on the Needle hike</div>
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Local school boys jumping into the harbor after winning their soccer game</div>
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Goodbye Rarotonga</div>
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We caught a HUGE mahi mahi on the way to Niue</div>
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Niue is about 200 or so miles east of the northern Tongan
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all in NZ dollars.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They speak Nuiean, a
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Upon arriving to Niue, you really do understand why they
call it the Rock, it looks like one giant rock coming out of the ocean.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is not like the Cooks or French Polynesia
where there is an island with an atoll around it, so there is not a nice lagoon
to cruise around or swim in and there is no lagoon protection from waves.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is no harbor to come into, just some
mooring balls to tie to on the west side of the island in the capital of
Alofi.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So, staying here can be very dangerous
during wind shifts from the west and high swell.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p>The swell in the mooring field was significant enough that
the cake for Geoff’s birthday was considerably lopsided. I think we were all just happy to have had a
safe passage and now moored to celebrate with birthday cake!<br />
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Happy Birthday to Geoff</div>
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Mooring field in Niue</div>
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Boat launch - getting our dinghy out of the water</div>
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Enough anchored in Niue - view from local mini golf cafe</div>
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The Niue Yacht Club, NYC, is the biggest little yacht club
in the world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We have decided we will
become members as it only costs $20!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>They manage the moorings and provide free wifi and hot
showers-woohoo!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Checking in was very
easy as customs will meet you at the dock.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The only very precarious thing to worry about is the dock landing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As there is no harbor, the swell/waves
usually come right into the dock landing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>So, it can be very dangerous and sometimes not tenable at all.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You have to lift your dinghy out with a crane
for fear of your dinghy being bashed to bits against the dock with high surges
of waves and wind.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We managed to get to the
dock and get very wet getting out of the dinghy and then able to hoist it out
of the water.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p><br />
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The town itself is very quiet and everyone is super
friendly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Since we arrived on a
Saturday, not a lot was open, but we did walk around the main town and grab a
roti at Gill’s, the local Indian restaurant.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It was very good!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They also have
a Bond liquor store where on the day of arrival and day of departure, you can
purchase duty free alcohol.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We found it
interesting that you could buy on the day of arrival.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As most countries only allow for duty free
alcohol on day of departure.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So, we made
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We were very excited about touring this little island
country. Niue is a limestone cap on an
extinct volcano. It is an elevated
island on 65 feet high cliffs. It is
only 100 square miles with the highest point being 223 feet. The highlight of Niue is to explore the caves and sea tracks. The natural wonder of the island is spectacular. So colorful and beautiful. Fresh and saltwater coming together in the pools that are amazing to swim in.It has unsurpassed water clarity with lots of
swimming coves, caves, chasms and lots of sea tracks for exploration. They also have good mountain biking! Also, during high season, what we would call
summer months, is whale watching. Lots
of whales swim around in the moorings!
You can also work with the local whale exploration team and take your boat
out to learn about and record the whales and take pictures of them.<br />
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Niue Yacht Club located in the Backpackers lodge </div>
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Miriam, Horatio and Noah at the Mini Golf Cafe</div>
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One of the many Sea Tracks</div>
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Noah with a crab</div>
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Geoff is inspired by the craftsmanship of the local vaka boat builders</div>
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Horatio at Matapa Chasm </div>
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One of the Limu pools</div>
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Another Sea Track</div>
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Horatio and Noah on the way down to a freshwater cave</div>
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View of the stairs on cave walk</div>
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Spectacular ocean view on eastern side of island</div>
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Colorful caves</div>
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We found that Niue was one of our biggest surprises so far
in cruising the South Pacific. It is
incredibly beautiful with so many caves and natural pools to swim in. We had to admit that we enjoyed it more than
a lot of French Polynesia. Not only for
the natural wonders, but for the kindness and helpfulness of the local people
and also for provisioning and good restaurants.
Two ships come per month and they get lots of products from New Zealand,
so the food items are very good. We
really wished we would have provisioned a lot more here as we were to discover
that Tonga is not as good for food products.<o:p></o:p></div>
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There is a local vaka (canoe) builder in town that has
turned vaka building into an art form.
His name is Fai (Taumafai) Fuhiniu.
We saw one of his vakas in the Visitor’s Center in Niue and asked if the
builder was in town. Niue having such a
small population, his daughter actually works at the Visitor’s Center. She said she would take us to his house to
meet him the next day. We went to rent a
car that day so we could tour the island and the lady that was helping us at
the Niue Car Rental was Fai’s wife! Very
small town! We spent a few hours the
next day at their house and saw his workshop and discussed his work ethic and
process on vaka building. He builds some
of the fastest vakas in all of the South Pacific. Lots of his vakas are gifted to important
dignitaries and have been given as gifts or bought as artwork for many famous
people. He has also had National
Geographic articles printed about him.
It was a great time. Noah and Horatio
made friends with his granddaughter and we ended up leaving with, it seemed
like, an entire banana tree! Lots of
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Like most places in the South Pacific, Niue has been hit by
a cyclone and the damage could be seen all over the island. It was very apparent as there were so many
houses that have been abandoned and left to rot. So sad.<o:p></o:p></div>
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On a positive note, almost every night we could hear the
whales talking to each other in the mooring field. They really swim right next to your boat and
swim underneath them. You could see them
coming up to breath just 100 feet from the boat. It was a little scary as it was night,
because you couldn’t really see them when they were about to surface, but it
was so exciting when they did. Hearing
them talk all night was so melodic. <o:p></o:p></div>
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of the winds to come from the North, so we decided we would leave for Tonga
after spending a beautiful week in Niue.
We really wished we could have spent two weeks here!<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Now the question was where we should go in
the Cook Islands!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Cooks are made up
of 15 islands spread across 2 million square miles of the South Pacific
Ocean.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There are only a few of the
islands that can actually be reached and have ability to anchor/moor by boat
and that was either one or two islands in the Northern Cook Islands or two in the
Southern Cook Islands.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lots of people we
know chose the Northern Cooks and went to the nature reserve island of Suwarrow
(Suvarov).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Only a caretaker and no real
town, but amazing snorkeling/scuba diving, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>or go to the Southern Cooks and head to
Rarotonga, which holds the capital city of Avarua.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As Geoff and the boys have a great great
grandmother that was born and raised in the Cooks, we decided to go to the largest
and capital city to see if we could get information on the family line that is
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Avarua harbor - Enough med moored</div>
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Kids watching the local boys jumping into the harbor</div>
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Lawn bowling</div>
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<span lang="EN-US">We also happened to be showing up the week
of the Cooks Independence celebration.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This is their 51<sup>st</sup> year of self-government with free
association with New Zealand.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Talk about
a great time to be here!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They call their
celebration week, Te Maeva Nui.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Similar
to Tahiti’s Heiva, it brings folks from all of the Cook Islands for competition
in dance, singing and drumming, but they also have guests from the Marquesas,
Tonga, Fiji, Samoa, and Papua to join in the dance, singing and drumming
presentations.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The theme for this year
is “Honour the Thrones of our Royalties”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>So each team has a song, dance, drum performance dedicated to this
theme.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We thought the performances at
Heiva were good, but the Cook Islanders make the French Polynesians look like
beginners!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Seriously, they were so
good.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The performances we so coordinated
and so much more lively. We could not believe the difference!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And trust us, when we say the French
Polynesian performers were great.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But
the Cook Islanders were amazing!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Again,
no photos or videos!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So sad, because it
will make you smile the entire time!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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The Cook Islands are famous for their woven hats </div>
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Fireworks on Independence Day</div>
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View from Trader Jack's bar</div>
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<span lang="EN-US">We rented a car and had to remember how to
drive on the left hand side of the road!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Also remembering which way to look when crossing the road took a little
getting used to.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We toured the island
and were told to visit the local prison!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>So, we went, because they said it was a joke.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We saw that is was basically a farm with a little
wire fence around it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They farm and tend
their own vegetables, which makes lots of sense.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The actual prison has a gate, but no real
security to talk about.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The prisoners
have a craft shop and make Ukuleles.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>You can go and buy a ukulele made by a prisoner!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What an enterprising business.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We saw that they were making one of the
Thones/Royalty chairs for the Te Maeva Nui festival.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The prisoners actually made the throne for
the celebration.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Day one of the festival
showed just the raw wood, Day two showed it carved, Day three, adding
embellishments, etc.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When we saw it, it
was for the closing ceremony and they were going to add some final
embellishments and then varnish it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We
thought that was pretty fantastic that the prisoners actually made a piece of
furniture for the festival and would be placed in a museum afterwards.</span></div>
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View of the Prison from the road</div>
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Prisoner made Ukeleles</div>
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Throne/Chair carved for the festival</div>
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They recycle and have it shipped back to New Zealand</div>
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Ready for shipment</div>
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Coco Putt - mini golf and lunch</div>
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Tamarind Restaurant</div>
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<span lang="EN-US">There are 5 local chiefs for the island of
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homes which was turned into a palace museum.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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that she actually wears for formal events!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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Dressed in Pa Ariki's ceremony clothes</div>
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holiday for the Cook Islanders.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The main
tourists come from New Zealand and Australia.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The main language is English with Cook Islands Maori.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is similar to Tahitian, but just a little
different.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>An example would be “Ia Orana”
in Tahitian for Hello.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is “Kia Orana”
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that English is spoken and we were thrilled as to not have to learn another
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fresh groceries, no getting up at 4 am to get the only 6 heads of lettuce in
town.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lots of choices and
availability!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Good food and lots of
incredibly friendly people.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><br />
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Entrance to Sunday Market</div>
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fresh vegetables - rows and rows of these stands</div>
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fresh baked goods</div>
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<span lang="EN-US">We understand why cruisers don’t make it
here very often.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The locals seem to
believe it is the cost and also the formalities that seem excessive, but
putting in notice that you are coming was easy and check in was very efficient
and fast. The cost was average, I would say it wasn’t much more that French
Polynesia, but getting to a harbor with a good anchorage/mooring is the main
issue.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The harbor in Avarua is very
rolly and not convenient.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You have to
med moor to a dock that is hard to tie up to without help and it is
consistently rolly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They recently did an
expansion of the harbor, but it really only helped the fishing boats.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They created a new breakwater and dredged out
the harbor for their fleet of fishing/tour boats.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The harbor for sailboats is where the big
ships/tankers/fishing boats come in, so busy and small.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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incredibly happy we have come here.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We
really like it here and are enjoying our stay.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The island is beautiful, like Moorea, surrounded by a big lagoon, but
has all the local amenities that a big city would have.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Like a real Cinema!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We went to see the new Jason Bourne move
already and Suicide Squad.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ok, not the
best movies, but seriously good to see a new release since Tahiti was still
only showing Kung Fu Panda 3 and everything is in French, with no
subtitles.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">We came to do some research on Geoff and the children's great great and great great great grandmother. Her name was Marie Ambridge and she was born and raised in the Cook Islands. We thought we could find out about the family lineage and history of the family in the Cooks. We went to the National Archives and they were able to give us information on her and her father and uncle. We were able to find Marie's uncle's grave site and learned that her father was a printer for the local paper and her uncle was a fruit plantation manager for the European Fruit Company. Marie married John Geoffrey Ashton and moved to San Francisco and gave birth to Geoff's grandfather, Jack Ashton. It was great to learn a little bit about the family history from the Cooks.</span></span><br />
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to make it to Aitutake, but not sure the weather will permit us to anchor
outside the harbor, as it is too shallow for our boat to make it into the pass,
some places are only 4-5 feet deep, our boat draws closer to 7 feet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So, if the weather is good, we will stay, if
not, we will make our way to Niue and then to Tonga.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">We left the atoll of Fakarava in the
Tuomotus in the middle of June and made our way for The Society Islands.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Society Islands consist of two group of
island chains called the Windward Islands and the Leeward Islands.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We were making our way to the Windward
Islands first as these are the ones closest to the Tuomotus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our first stop would be the city of Papeete
in Tahiti.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is the largest city in
all of French Polynesia as it has the largest port and all goods typically come
to Papeete first and then get shipped to the other islands/atolls. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">It is about 230 miles from Fakarava
to Tahiti.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We had a very nice 2 day
passage.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When we first left, we thought
there would be no wind, but low and behold, a squall came and delivered several
hours of rain and good wind.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We did not
see any winds higher than 25-30 knots, so it was nice to get wind to push us
along especially after the rain stopped.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Our first stop was to the most northern point of Tahiti called Point
Venus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is where </span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: ArialMT; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Captain
Cook set up an observation point to watch Venus pass</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arialmt"; mso-bidi-font-family: ArialMT; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: ArialMT; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">in front of the sun.</span><span lang="EN-US"> It was a very calm and
beautiful anchorage.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We were so excited
to see houses and buildings built into the mountainsides.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was wild coming from vastly empty atolls
and the sparsely populated islands in the Marquesas to an actual city!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Of course Tahiti is not large by any means
when comparing to a city like San Francisco, but it had a good amount of lights
and cars and also airplanes. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: ArialMT; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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us in the anchorage for the night and then we all made our way to Papeete the
next day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Port is large considering
we had to call the Port Captain and gain approval to even enter the channel
first as, there are many ferry boats, cruise ships and tanker ships that make
their way in and out of the port.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Also,
the airport is across the channel from the airport, so sometimes you have to
wait for traffic and planes to clear before you can enter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Fun stuff, but actually really easy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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Entrance toward the Port of Tahiti</div>
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Point Venus Lighthouse</div>
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Kids Jumpy playground at Point Venus</div>
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Canoes at Point Venus</div>
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<span lang="EN-US">We docked at Marina de Papeete right in the
middle of town.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was a great location
as we could walk to almost everything we wanted to see. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Central Market was only a few blocks
away.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A place that sells fresh
vegetables and fish and also has vendors that sell flower leis, flower
arrangements, pareos (cotton or silk printed wraps), wood and shell carvings,
Tahiti Manoa oils (coconut oils with Tiare flower oil or other island flower
oils), and lots of black pearl stands.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Black Pearls are the specialty jewelry of the South Pacific.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
most exciting thing we learned about was the Roulottes (Food Wagons/ Food
Trucks).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They set up EVERY night at a
square next to the visitor’s center.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We
definitely had to try it immediately.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
selections ranged from seafood, steak, chicken, crepes, Asian (mostly Chinese
style noodles and dishes) and ice cream.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>They specialize in Steak Frites.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Steak and French Fries.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Talk
about yummy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Everything comes with
frites.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Chicken, fish, eggs, with
frites!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The most interesting treat was a
Casse-Croute.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is basically the same
thing, but served on a baguette.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Steak
and fries baguette, chicken chow mein (seriously, chicken noodles served on a
baguette, egg and cheese and fries on a baguette.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Of course we had to try it and it was
actually really good.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Most “Snack”
restaurants, which we would consider more like a take-out/fast food, serve the
casse-croutes and are definitely less expensive(ok, expensive is a relative
word, considering everything is French Polynesia is expensive, especially
compared to Mexico) than eating in a sit down restaurant.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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Roulottes - Food Trucks</div>
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Church in downtown Tahiti</div>
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<span lang="EN-US">A typical can of soda costs $2-3, a can of
beer costs $5, head of lettuce $4, fruits and vegetables are limited and 2-3
times more expensive than what we would spend in the US.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Grapes would cost about $11-15 dollars for a
bunch, celery would cost $5-7.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Items
that they don’t grow, which is very limited to pampelmousee, coconut, papaya,
bananas, long runner beans, and bok choy, are typically shipped in from New
Zealand, so the cost is expensive.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In Tahiti we were happy that they had a very
large grocery store called Carre-Four.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>If you’ve been to Europe, you would see many of these stores there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some folks in Tahiti say it would be similar
to a Target or Walmart superstore, one that carries groceries.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think they are nicer than that as the
choices and selection seem to be more upscale.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But maybe that’s just because the brands come from France/Europe and we
don’t know any better!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was just
refreshing to actually be in a real grocery store with a selection and have
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island.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Of the approximately 280,000
inhabitants of French Polynesia, 120,000 of them live in Papeete area. It took
about 2-3 hours to drive around a stop and visit some sites.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We saw beautiful waterfalls, the surfing town
of Teahupoo, and took in the sites of the beautiful green mountainsides and
lush greenery.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is very laid back and
no one seems to be in a rush to go anywhere.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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or even a village in the Marquesas, but it still had the relaxed vibrations of
being on island time.</span></div>
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Grotto in Tahiti</div>
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Mist over a mountain town in Tahiti</div>
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Teahupoo - Big Surf town</div>
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on the beach in Teahupoo</div>
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Waterfall in Tahiti</div>
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Finally, made it to the waterfall</div>
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Waiting for the water at the blowhole, (it was very tiny!)</div>
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Sailing Rendezvous.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was a three day
party for sailors or anyone interested in sailing and learning about French
Polynesia.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We originally did not think
we were going to make this event as it was planned for a certain date and
sailing is always not exact due to weather conditions and ability to travel by
boat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So, we thought if we made it to
Tahiti by that time frame, we would attend.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We are glad we did.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This event
was so exciting and very well planned out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It started with a rally/sail from Tahiti to Moorea (about 2-3 hours
sail).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They had Tourism boards and
port/marina representatives from French Polynesia, Tonga, New Zealand, Fiji and
Australia.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was more than we
expected.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We had cocktail parties with
Marquesan and Tahitian dancers performing for us, very good food, canoe
(va’a/vaka) races for the participants and tug of war, coconut husking
competition and coconut carrying and stone lifting!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was a fun filled three days.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We got to meet other cruisers and the kids got
to hang out with lots of other cruising kids.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Such a fun time for them as there were more kids than we had seen in all
of the Marquesas and Tuomotus combined.</span></div>
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Geoff racing with Blue Raven</div>
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Miriam and the ladies learning to move their hips</div>
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Horatio's boys canoe team won their division</div>
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Vaka tour boat</div>
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View from our anchorage in Cook's Bay</div>
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Agricultural farm - they had jam tastings and ice cream </div>
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Colorful beetle</div>
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How you make Tapa - pounding the wood fiber</div>
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painted Tapa</div>
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event and we really enjoyed Moorea.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It
has such a beautiful relaxed and friendly atmosphere.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Truly beautiful island.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We swam with stingrays and black tip
sharks!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>More than a little exciting when
some tourist was feeding the sharks chicken!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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sharks and this area is full of tourists snorkeling with sharks and stingrays,
so when you are being circled by about 20 black tip sharks, it’s time to get
out of the water!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was a little too
scary!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So mad at that dumb tourist for
feeding the sharks roasted chicken.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One
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Took the dinghy sailing to the Stingray and Shark site</div>
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Getting ready to swim with the rays and sharks</div>
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Stingray swimming up to the dinghy</div>
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Geoff with ray behind him</div>
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Black tip sharks</div>
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stingrays</div>
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the kids with a stingray</div>
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stingrays swimming toward Geoff</div>
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Horatio and Miriam laughing about almost getting attacked by roast chicken eating sharks</div>
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and back to Moorea and the other Leeward Islands<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">We went back to Tahiti to pick up Geoff’s
parents as they came for a two week visit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It was nice to have them come and see what living and traveling on a
sailboat would be like for two weeks without having access to a marina or
offsite bathrooms and showers!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We wanted
to make sure that sailing would be all during the day, and no overnight travel
would be required.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was very cozy but
doable and nice.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We attended one of
Tahiti’s largest festivals of the year called Heiva.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is an all-island competition for singing,
dancing and drumming.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We got tickets and
attended one of the, what we think, was the nicest shows of the event.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There was no cameras allowed and they had
very tight security that would take peoples phones and cameras away if they saw
any recordings.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We really wished we
could have gotten photos, but I think if you YouTube, “Heiva”, you would be
able to get an idea of what we saw.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Spectacular and so heart pounding!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Definitely worth the money!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
costumes alone were such an amazing site.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>They are all handmade and look like hours of work to produce.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">We went back to Moorea and spent a couple
of days there and made a visit to the Rotui Fruit Juice factory.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That was actually really neat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not only do they process all of the islands
fruit for juices, which is absolutely delicious (passionfruit, pineapple,
coconut, papaya, mango, and pampelmousse) they are also a distillery.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They make their own rum and also made this
incredibly delicious pineapple wine!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It
was quite tasty, so we had to buy some along with the rum!</span></div>
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Horatio giving Geoff a haircut on the dock</div>
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Cruising tour sailboat at sunset</div>
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Puffer fish at the dock in Tahiti</div>
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Town Market</div>
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– The Wild One<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">We made a very early, 4 am, departure from
Moorea so we could sail the 80 miles to the Leeward Island of Huahine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We made it just as the sun was setting and
anchored outside the Avamoa Pass, near the town of Fare.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We had a nice dinner on the boat and were
happy to be anchored as the swell was pretty high and the wind was pretty much
on the nose.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It wasn’t too
uncomfortable, but not easy and calm.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But
happy to be anchored in calm weather inside the lagoon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The next day, we were going to motor around
the island, but we could see a storm was coming our way and decided to head to
the Island of Tahaa, which was about 20 some miles northeast.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We beat the weather and could see Huahine
covered in storm clouds, but nothing was coming to Tahaa.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We wished we could have stayed longer and
seen more of Huahine, because we have heard how beautiful it is.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We saw surfers and some snorkelers before we left,
so we are guessing it would have been a nice place to visit.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Tahaa is known as the Vanilla Island.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They grow about 60% of the worlds Tahitian
Vanilla beans here on this island.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We
anchored in front of the town of Haamene.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We took a tour and it was fascinating.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We learned there are 4 different types of vanilla; Tahitian, Mexican,
and Bourbon/Madagascar and Ugandan.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For Tahitian vanilla beans, they have to be
hand pollinated (!), hand-picked, hand tossed and air/sun dried, and hand
massaged (to distribute the seeds around in the bean pod).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vanilla is grown from an orchid.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is not the most beautiful or scented
orchid, but it does produce an amazing vanilla bean!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now we understand why it is so expensive for
high quality vanilla beans.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The long
beans are worth more, because to grow long beans, the pod will die and not
reproduce.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you pick them a little
shorter, they will reproduce.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The long
beans are for the vanilla bean/seeds.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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and anchored in front of a private hotel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>They had a coral garden which we thought would be touristy with not a
lot to see as we know that coral is not as good as anything we will see again
like in the Tuomotus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But we were
pleasantly surprised by the amount of fish in this coral garden.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The coral was not bright with different
colors like in Fakarava or Tahanea, but it was surprisingly full of beautiful
fish!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The snorkeling and swimming was
fabulous!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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would go to the hotel and get something to drink or eat at the café, but you
had to be an official guest since it was a private hotel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We asked if we could pay to eat, and boy did
we pay.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We didn’t know that trying to
get wifi would cost of $60 dollars each for a buffet breakfast!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Talk about expensive wifi!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The hazards of needing to be connected!</span><br />
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Tour of the Vanilla plantation</div>
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Orchid that grows the vanilla bean</div>
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Vanilla beans on the vine</div>
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Vanilla beans that have just been picked</div>
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Vanilla Bean drying</div>
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Ylang Ylang tree - apparently this tree is pretty abundant here</div>
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One of the most common florals used for perfumes, as in Chanel no.5</div>
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Bora – The Pear of the Pacific<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">We made our way to Bora Bora and moored in front
of the Bora Bora yacht club for the evening.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The next day we picked up a mooring ball in front of the famous Bloody
Mary’s restaurant.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Apparently people
like Bill and Melinda Gates, Warren Buffet, movie stars like, Brigitte Bardot,
Keanu Reeves, Reese Witherspoon, etc. have eaten here.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now we know why.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We were invited, along with S/V Red Thread,
to our friends from S/V Sarita’s, daughter, Katya’s 13<sup>th</sup> birthday!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>An official teenager!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The boys were happy to see their friend
again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Katya and the boys had been
spending time in the Tuomotus doing art projects together.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So, it was good for them to see her again.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">What a great restaurant.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It has sand floors, and everyone has to put
their shoes in a cubby!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So funny, like
being in pre-school!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But there was
nothing pre-schoolish about the food!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Of
course it was expensive, but it was absolutely divine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We had been eating on the boat for so long
and had forgotten what a gourmet meal tasted like.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The seasonings, vanilla cream sauces on
fish!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was just fabulous.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The desserts were also to die for.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It really was a fantastic night and we are
happy that Geoff’s parents got to partake in that with us!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Certainly not typical of cruising life, but
once in a while you get to eat at a really top shelf restaurant with amazing
friends and family!</span></div>
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</span>The weather was not picture perfect every day, but we had some very nice
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Sunset over Bora Bora from the island of Tahaa</div>
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Entrance to Bloody Mary's restaurant - Bora Bora</div>
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Geoff and Miriam with Geoff's parents, Peter and Theresa</div>
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Group photo with friends from Sarita and Red Thread</div>
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Katya celebrating being an official teenager</div>
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Horatio doing Tarzan in the lagoon - Bora Bora</div>
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Noah's turn</div>
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Everyone enjoying the beautiful weather and clear water</div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Raiatea is the largest island and nautical base for the Leeward Islands.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is almost connected to Tahaa, but a pass separates the two islands.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We went to Raiatea to drop Geoff’s parents off at the airport and get provisioned and check out as our 90 day visa was now coming to an end.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We motored around the island a little and made our way to the main town of Uturoa.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We grabbed a mooring ball, which we only had to supply a 6 pack of beer for, and made it to town.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was nice to have Geoff’s parents with us and we are glad they stayed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The kids were excited to have their grandparents to hang out with for a while and see how they lived.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The kids of course did very limited amount of school work if any while their grandparents were here, so it was going to be back to hitting the books when they left.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think the kids will miss having them here!</span></div>
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Harbor at Raiatea</div>
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View from our anchorage in Bora Bora</div>
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Bora Bora Yacht Club mooring</div>
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Dinner with our friends from Nogal</div>
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</span>It the current was very fast, and we went in full throttle, and made it
through!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Beautiful little island. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We never went ashore, but just snorkeled and
swam and got ready with food prep for the passage to the Cook Islands.</span></div>
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Entering the pass to Maupiti</div>
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inside the channel - clear and beautiful</div>
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Local dog swimming across the bay! </div>
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No worries, he's done this before!</div>
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THE TUOMOTUS– June / July 2016<o:p></o:p><w:sdtpr></w:sdtpr></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Hao – Makemo<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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The Tuomotus are about 400-500 miles southwest of the
Marquesas depending on where you depart and arrive.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We decided to depart Fatu Hiva in the
Marquesas for the atoll called Hao.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
evening we left, it was almost a full moon and the wind was calm.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We felt we might actually have to motor since
the wind was so light.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Well, we then got
a big surprise on the 2<sup>nd</sup> day as the wind really picked up and
shifted directions and a squall overcame us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>From then on, it was horrible swell and 30 knot heavy wind on the
nose.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It felt like we were bashing into
the waves the whole time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By the 4<sup>th</sup>
day, we were about 60 miles from trying to enter the pass of Hao and decided it
was just going to be too horrible to even try and enter the atoll. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The thing about these atolls is that you have a narrow pass
to enter which has to be entered during slack tide.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So, from an aerial view, it’s like looking at
a big circle or oval, with a small slit / opening in the circle/oval, which you
can then enter the circle at the right tide.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Some of the atolls have two passes, most have one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Most of these atolls can also have 3-4 knots
of current, if not more, running either against you or with you coming
in/out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Also, you need to enter these
passes during morning light hours, as there are many coral reefs and rocks to
navigate around and can only be seen when the sun is behind you or above
you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is pretty tricky to enter
paradise!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Once you are inside the pass,
and in the lagoon it’s like you’re in a different weather pattern all
together.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Most of the atolls do not even
a magasin/store.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Most consist of a few
houses and might have a place a small village.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Some atolls have a village with a store and maybe wifi. <o:p></o:p></div>
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As the swell and wind were so bad, we thought waiting for
slack tide and trying to enter into Hao would be a bust, so we decided to head
further north about another 120 miles and enter the atoll of Makemo.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We entered Makemo and the wind and swell was
not as bad, but at the anchorage where the town was, it was very rolly as there
was no protection from the wind or swell.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We didn’t even get the dinghy down to see the village.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The next day, we headed for an anchorage in
the middle of the atoll, which was protected by a nice coral reef.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was quite an adventure to navigate the
bommies (coral heads) that are scattered throughout the atoll.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was like a minefield.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You have to have look outs at the bow to
avoid literally running into these bommies and putting a huge hole in your
boat!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We were happy to arrive at the
middle anchorage as we saw Pesto and Sarita there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We had cocktails and a bonfire on the beach
that night with them and met 3 other boats, Valindra, French Curve, and
Tigress.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This really was a very magical
anchorage.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>White sand beaches, great
coral to snorkel around and calm clear water.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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The kids decided to have a Survival camp on the beach one
night.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So, we left the kids with Raquel
and Paulo from Pesto, on the beach with a tent, water, Swiss army knife, pork
and beans, fruit loops cereal. handheld radio and their survival
instincts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We rowed back to the boat and
every once in a while looked out with binoculars to see if they were ok.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The kids built their own campfire and cooked
their pork and beans and by sunset, they didn’t know what to do!!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We received several very funny radio calls
that asked what time it was every 15 minutes for an hour and then asked what we
had for dinner and if we were watching any good movies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was pretty funny as it was only 5:30pm.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We saw the fire they had built had gotten
bigger and they were running around screaming and having a good time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think they wore themselves out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After the fire burned out, they went into the
tents and we were told the next day, that they talked about computer games and
card games before they went to sleep.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We thought for sure the next morning they would call right away because
they were hungry or bored.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They didn’t call
and stayed on the beach the whole afternoon, even through a squall!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They only called to tell us that a squall was
coming and that they were having a great time!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It was fantastic to hear that they were having such a great time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They can’t wait to do it again.<o:p></o:p><br />
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Horatio getting ready to fish</div>
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Beautiful Parrotfish</div>
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Paulo with hermit crab</div>
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Cocktails and bonfire on Makemo beach</div>
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Makemo atoll</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Tahanea<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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After spending a week in Makemo, we decided to check out another
atoll.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was also a very sad time as
Pesto was planning on staying in Makemo for another two weeks, at least, and in
the atolls for at least another month or two.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>They had family coming to visit them in the atolls and we also had
family that was arriving in Papeete (another 200-250 miles away).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So, we had to part ways with our very good
friends that we had been cruising with since Mexico.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The kids were so sad as they had become so
close with Raquel and Paulo.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was a
hard time for all as we said our goodbyes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We know we will see them again, but maybe not until next year.<o:p></o:p></div>
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We arrived in Tahanea, which is another atoll about 50 miles
west.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is supposed to be a national
park as no one lives on this atoll.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So,
no village, no stores.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Fresh food was
getting in short supply, but we were still enjoying ourselves.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Tahanea is a beautiful atoll.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lots of white sand beaches and lots of coral
beaches.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We snorkeled in the pass which
is a huge reef.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was AMAZING.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Just how clear the water was and the colors
of the coral and the types of fish we’ve never seen before.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was so lovely.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We only saw one black tip shark and that was
about it for sharks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We wish our camera
took better pictures as it does not do justice to the colors and view of the
sea life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We enjoyed being in Tahanea
for a few days of snorkeling and exploring.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Very quiet and very peaceful.<o:p></o:p><br />
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Inside the lagoon in Tahanea - you can see the ocean on the other side of the sand (that is how close you are to being in 1000 ft of water vs. anchoring in 35 ft of water.</div>
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We left Tahanea and went another 50 miles west to the atoll
of Fakarava.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is one of the larger atolls and has two
passes and a village with a couple of magasins.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But we never made it up toward the north pass (25 miles north) where the
magasins are.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So, no fresh food
again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We entered the south pass and
anchored there for several days.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When we
arrived into the pass, we noticed several dinghies in the water as lots of
folks were drift diving or snorkeling in the pass.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You basically take your dinghy into the pass
and jump overboard and drag the dinghy line behind you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You typically drift out during slack tide and
then wait for the tide or current to take you back in and hop back into your
dinghy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Or you hop back in because there
are a lot of sharks!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Upon arriving into the southeast anchorage, we met a family
on Blue Raven.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They have two daughters,
close to Horatio and Noah’s age. They invited us over for cocktails and we met
two other boats, Valvini and Cartago (sp?).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Everyone is so fantastic trading sea stories and passage stories.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It really is a small family when it comes to
sailing as you typically end up seeing these folks again at another
island/anchorage.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The kids played on
Blue Raven one day and met two boys their age from the boat Kandu.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We met one of the boys from Kandu in Nuku
Hiva, but they actually got to hang out with both of them 300 miles away from
the Marquesas.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What a small world!<o:p></o:p></div>
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Sarita was also in Fakarava and we spent a day exploring the
beaches with them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Horatio and Noah had
a great day with Katia on a small sand island to themselves while the adults
explored the other beaches.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We also
spent another day snorkeling in the pass with Sarita.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>AMAZING!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Like Tahanea, so much coral, so alive with fish and soooo many
SHARKS!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Black tip and white tips
sharks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At least 20 sharks swimming
around us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It can certainly be
unnerving, but they don’t really bother you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>As long as they don’t start to circle you, or seem to be aggressively
coming toward you, it was fine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We saw
no circling or aggressive behavior at all.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Wow!<o:p></o:p></div>
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Horatio snorkeling</div>
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Beautiful clam</div>
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A little history from the book “Guide to Navigation and
Tourism in French Polynesia”, the Polynesian islands are emerged underwater
volcanoes of the Hawaiian type that drift due to plate tectonics.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The volcanoes correspond to the hot spots of
the floor, from which the deep magma spouted.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Taking into account the incessant drift of this floor, the islands born
at these hot spots drift progressively westward, 10 cm per year, while the hot
spots continue to spew forth magma, creating a new volcano, etc.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As these island drift westward, they sink
into the oceanic floor under their own weight and the coral that had colonized
their shores remains on the reef base that is has created.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thus, the island is diminished in size and
height and the space left between the original reef and the new shores is then
filled in by a lagoon, which enlarges as the island shrinks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>During the final stage the island totally
disappears under the water’s surface, and there remains only a central lagoon
and the reef crown, which is then an atoll.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The high islands, without a lagoon nor crown reef (the Marquesas) are
the youngest, and those that have a vast lagoon are the oldest (the Society
Islands), and in between are the atolls.<o:p></o:p></div>
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French Polynesia extends over 5,500,000 square kilometers,
counting the territorial waters, but the land surface of the 118 islands is
only 4,000 square kilometers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That is
why they look like a speck of dust scattered on the ocean.<o:p></o:p></div>
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French Polynesia consists of 5 archipelagos.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To the West, the Society archipelago is
comprised of the Windward Islands (including Tahiti and Moorea) and the Leeward
Islands (including Bora Bora and Raiatea).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The Tuamotu archipelago is made up of 76 atolls, which is extended by
the Gambier archipelago.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Austral
Island archipelago has 5 inhabited islands.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>To the north of the Tuamotus are the Marquesas.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Coming into the youngest archipelago, the Marquesas, was
such a treat, because we could see land immediately as the mountains stood out
from quite a distance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Marquesas
have 11 islands, which 5 are uninhabited.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We landed on the largest and most populated island first, Nuku Hiva.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We came into the northern bay which was Anaho
Bay.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We really enjoyed that bay and took
a well-deserved rest from the long passage.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We hiked to the bay west of Anaho called Hatiheu, and ended up meeting
our friends from Pesto by pure coincidence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It was a real treat!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Taiohae Bay</i> - We
then sailed south to the Taiohae Bay, which is where we ended up checking in
and getting our clearance and fuel exemption.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Taiohae Bay (@1500 people) is very large and can accommodate over 70
boats.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We were very surprised to see
over 50 boats, maybe more, already anchored.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We have come to realize that French Polynesia is very populated with
French and European cruisers, more than American or Canadian cruisers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is really great to meet so many people
from Europe that cruise this area every year!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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The town of Taiohae has very friendly people and a few
Magasins (small grocery stores) and fresh fruit market.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We have come to find that getting
pamplemousse (French grapefruit, very good and much sweeter with larger pulp
than traditional grapefruit), papaya and bananas are plentiful.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But getting items like lettuce, sometimes
tomatoes, apples, carrots, potatoes, are difficult to get, as they come by boat
from New Zealand.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But we have found that
baguettes are plentiful and can be found at the magasins and some cafes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As for pastries such as croissants, you have
to get up at the crack of dawn and buy as many as you can, because by 6:30am,
they are all gone!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When the fresh market
on Saturday occurs, same thing, must get up at 5am to get the best veggies,
lettuce, tomatoes, green beans, eggplant, etc.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Folks in town get up early, take a
siesta/rest between 11am-2pm, sometimes 3pm, and then close down by 5pm.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Taiohae only has a few restaurants, and we
tried one that served a variety of foods.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Pizza, steak, chicken, pork, goat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Restaurants are good, but wouldn’t say they are fabulous.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The most famous dish is poisson cru.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is like ceviche.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Raw fish seasoned with coconut milk is the
most traditional.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They sometimes have a
curry, or soy flavored version.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is
very good.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Hakatea</i> -We
decided to move to another anchorage to check out more of the island.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We went a few miles west to a bay called
Hakatea.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sometimes known as Daniel’s Bay
(nice gentleman used to live there and was very friendly and helpful to
cruisers), but also known as the bay where they filmed one of the first
Survivor TV show series.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We anchored
with about 7 other boats.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our friends
from Pesto and Sarita were already there and we met Sababa.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We had only heard them on the Puddle Jump net
as we were making the voyage, but finally met them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We all had cocktails aboard Sarita that
evening.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was a wonderful evening and
a nice anchorage.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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The next night we ended up having dinner with a local
family. Kua and Teiki.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They were so
wonderful.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Their farm is loaded with
coconuts, pamplemousse, papaya, bananas, and when in season, mango, avocado and
pineapple.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They served us crawfish from
the river that runs next to their farm, rice, bananas, breadfruit and
papaya.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was delicious!<o:p></o:p></div>
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We went back to Taiohae after a few days so we could pick up
our fuel exemption and get fuel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While
in Taiohae we met several other kid boats.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We met Muk Tuk, a boat from Austria, with two boys, Jan and Noah, close
to Horatio and Noah’s age.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The parents
have been cruising for 22 years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
boys have never lived on land.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are
amazing boys and very self-sufficient.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We also met Daybreak Oceane from Canada.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They speak French fluently, just like Muk
Tuk, which of course is very helpful in French speaking Polynesia!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Daybreak has one girl named Leah.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She also is very self-sufficient and fun to
hang out with, especially playing cops and robbers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Comptroller Bay</i> –
We checked out an anchorage a few miles east called Comptroller Bay, which has
3 bays.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One of the bays, called
Taipivai, is the most famous as that is where Herman Melville wrote <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Typee </i>and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Omoo. </i>We decided to stay in the smallest of the 3 bays, called
Hooumi.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We found it to be small but
beautiful and protected from the S/SE swell.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The next day, Pesto showed up and the kids pretty much swam all day
long!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was beautiful and clear with
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Outrigger canoes on the beach in Nuku Hiva</div>
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Canoe racers practicing</div>
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Our dinghy with some canoes</div>
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Entering Hakatea Bay</div>
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Cocktails aboard Sarita with Sababa</div>
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View entering the river in Hakatea Bay</div>
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Kua and her husband Teiki and friend gathering coconuts</div>
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Teiki and friend with their big hog</div>
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Horatio and Noah drinking coconut water with Pesto family</div>
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Rowing into the river for dinner at Teiki and Kua's farm</div>
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Our kids with Pesto and Muk Tuk playing on the kayak</div>
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Sarita family entering the river </div>
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River landing at the farm</div>
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Electricity on the farm</div>
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Copra - Drying coconuts</div>
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Dinner of Shrimp, Rice, Breadfruit and Banana</div>
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Local flowers</div>
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Lots of bananas</div>
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Smoking coconut shells to keep the mosquitos away</div>
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Dinner with Pesto and Sarita</div>
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<i>Comptroller Bay</i> – We checked out an anchorage a few miles east called Comptroller Bay, which has 3 bays. One of the bays, called Taipivai, is the most famous as that is where Herman Melville wrote <i>Typee </i>and <i>Omoo. </i>We decided to stay in the smallest of the 3 bays, called Hooumi. We found it to be small but beautiful and protected from the S/SE swell. The next day, Pesto showed up and the kids pretty much swam all day long! It was beautiful and clear with sunny skies.<br />
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After getting fueled up in Taiohae, we decided it was time to visit another island. We tried to sail directly south to the island of Ua Pou. The view from Nuku Hiva was that of sugar loaf peaks called “the pillars” and looked like it would be a beautiful place to visit. Well, the main town on Hakahua has a very small anchorage that can only fit about 5-7 boats when the swell is low. But with big swell, you have breaking waves in the anchorage and leaves about room for only 4-5 boats. We tried, and could not anchor. We tried again a few days later, but no luck, and anchored further west on Ua Pou in Hakaheiteu. It was an ok anchorage, but nothing really to see. The swell was still a little high, and we decided to make our leave and head to another island.</div>
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Pesto sailing to Ua Pou and then to Tahuata</div>
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<i>Hanamoenoa Bay – </i>We sailed a rough passage for 12 hours and ending up anchoring just as the sun was setting on the island of Tahuata in Hanamoenoa Bay. We were greeted by our friends from Pesto, Sang Vind and Muk Tuk! What a welcome site and a relief. The bay is the most beautiful of all of the islands we have been to. It is crystal clear down to over 60 feet. Amazing white sand beach and one inhabitant named Steven living in the bay. We invited Steven over to our boat for a potluck dinner one night. We had 17 people aboard! Talk about tight living space! It was a great time as we got to meet Steven, and catch up with our friends from Sang Vind, whom we had not seen since La Cruz in Mexico in March. We also had Muk Tuk family and Pesto family over. It was a great evening.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The next day, we had lunch with Steven on the bay. He served coconut rice with pork and pamplemousse and green papaya. It was very good. We also met a catamaran, Nogal, from Sausalito. They have two girls on board and they invited everyone over for cocktails that evening. Mirilia, the mother/wife on board is Brazilian, so they hit it off with Pesto and were able to converse in Portuguese together. What a treat for them. Raquel from Pesto also had a great time being able to play with girls as she had been surrounded by boys; ours, her brother, Sang Vind and Muk Tuk for quite some time. <o:p></o:p></div>
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We stayed for several days and decided to head to the next bay over to meet with a tattoo artist named Fati. He was in the village of Vaitahu Bay. This was a beautiful town, but had a very hard dock to come ashore on, so I’m guessing not very many make it to town. Even though they have a magasin (not a lot in stock though). We met with Fati and he took us to his house. Geoff and I both got Marquesan tattoos. The symbols are very artistic and meaningful when you learn about the different characters. We both got tattoos that symbolize things that were meaningful to us. Family, safety, harmony, sailing. Etc. It was a real treat to see a tattoo artist at work and share his house with us.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Lunch at Steven's - Pig roast</div>
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Sang Vind, Pesto, and Nogal enjoying lunch</div>
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<i> Traitor’s Bay (Tahauku Bay) and the town of Atuona – </i>We next sailed to the island of Hiva Oa. Also a largely (@1000 people) populated island with most folks in the town of Atuona. This is also a town where you could check into for arrival and clearance, but we are glad we did that in Nuku Hiva. We could refuel and also stock up on some groceries as they had 3 magasins in town. This town was a little tricky to maneuver. The anchorage is 3 miles from town. So, it is quite a walk up the hill to get into town. So, if you need to stock up on groceries, you really need to think about renting a car or making several trips by foot to go back and forth from town to the dinghy dock and then getting the food or supplies on board. Overall, it was a nice town, but the anchorage was crowded and a little too cramped to be able to do anything. You really couldn’t swim, so, it made the stay much shorter than most.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>Hanavave Bay (Bay of Virgins) – </i>This was the last island we were to visit before heading on a 500 mile trek southwest to the Tuomotus. We are happy this was our last as it made a very lasting impression. The Bay of Virgins, as we’ve been told, is the most photographed bays in all sailing magazines and cruising magazines. It is truly beautiful with clear water and sand beaches. We found that the locals really engage with the cruisers and do lots of trade. We did not find this as much on the other islands, but this one, maybe because it is the farthest southern island In the Marquesas and the boat from New Zealand only comes once a month, that the locals really come out to greet you and invite you to dinner and want to be your tour guide. They like to trade for lipstick, perfume, fish hooks, and flip flops! In return you get pamplemousse, papaya, local art like Tikis (wooden sculptures) or Tapas (paintings on wood bark). We had a fabulous dinner (coconut curry chicken, soy pork, grilled fish, dried bananas, fresh plantains, rice and green papaya salad) at Jacque and Desiree’s house. We shared dinner with Pesto, and 3 other sail boats. One from France, one from Zealand and one from the US. It was an amazing spread and the amount of effort was much appreciated. Jacque and Desiree took some boats out for catching lobster or to visit the waterfall or to go see a blowhole. They are incredibly entrepreneurial and very good at it. We did lots of swimming and some motoring around on Pesto and Nogal’s dinghy. It was a nice ending to the Marquesas and can say that Hanavave and Hanamoenoa had to have been our two favorite bays in all of the Marquesas, with Anaho as our third.<o:p></o:p></div>
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On our way to the Marquesas – French Polynesia<o:p></o:p><w:sdtpr></w:sdtpr></div>
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We left La Cruz de Huanacaxtle, Nayarit. Mexico on Monday
March 28, 2016 at 1:00pm local time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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We cast off our lines from the La Cruz marina and it felt
like another day of sailing, but really the adrenaline was pumping because it
was a new adventure.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We knew that we
would not see land or step foot on land for at least 20 days.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We heard it takes between 20-30 days to get
there based on weather.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As this is an El
Nino year, we were told there would be very little wind and the Trade Winds
would be receding or even almost stopping and could reverse!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But we were off.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Day 5 – Steady as she
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The weather was steady at about 10 knots once outside of
Banderas Bay and it felt good.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
second day we had choppy waves and some patches of no wind, but overall it felt
good and everything was going well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
days were somewhat overcast with some light sprinkles.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Clothing was shorts and t-shirts during the
day and light fleece jackets at night.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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It felt pretty lonely after the first two days. We did see
some sailboats and ships in the shipping channel, but once outside of the
shipping channel we saw no other boats around us on our AIS.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By day 5, we actually saw something pop up
on our AIS.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was a Chevron
tanker.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was one of their Pacific Area
Lightering ships (they bring oil, usually from the Middle East, and come
offshore toward Los Angeles where the smaller ships meet it and take the oil
off their ship, as it is too big to dock).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>You really don’t expect to see much out there, so you can get pretty lax
about keeping watch during the day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
tanker was only 2 miles away, so it was really exciting!<o:p></o:p></div>
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Already, Noah was wondering, “Are we there yet?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So, we gave him a haircut so he could focus
on something else.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Like, “why do I have
blond and blue patches all over my scalp?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Could have something to do with all the past hair dying he has had.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He wanted to keep the front long and the back
short, as he would say, not the opposite, “I do not want a mullet!”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Of course, Miriam does not cut hair, but
tried her best as it is long in the front and short in the back, but it needs a
serious touch up by a professional.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The mood on board has been good and we are trying to get
into the routine with meals and watch schedules.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The kids have their day Noon Report where
they document and track our location on a paper chart.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We are also listening in and checking into
The Pacific Puddle Jump Net so we can hear how the other boats are doing and
get their coordinates so the kids can also track them with us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They also have to write in their journal
about what happened every day.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Geoff has become obsessed with Boobies, the bird kind.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We have boobies following us all the
time!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is amazing how many there
are.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We think they are trying to catch
the lures we have trolling behind us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>When they get tired, they try to land on the mast top.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is a lot of expensive instruments up
there for a bird to break, so clapping, yelling and air horning them has seen
to deter them thus far.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Fish Report:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>3 - All
of the fish we have caught so far wave been babies, extremely small.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We caught a striped marlin (glad that was a
baby!), yellowfin tuna, and a Mahi Mahi.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We have had a few squid (not sure how they got on board) and lots of
flying fish jump onto our boat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The kids
have flying fish duty every day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They
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the boat, or save them for bait.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Squalls, Go Away!<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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It really must be an El Nino year, as we have been hit at
least 10 times with squalls and heavy rain.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Good news is that we have crossed the Equator and Poseidon made a visit!<o:p></o:p></div>
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The kids were so looking forward to meeting Poseidon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Actually really wondering what they should
say to him and what they would have to do to go from a Pollywog to a
Shellback.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Noah had questions ready for
him, like, “Did Zeus really send you to the Oceans?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And “How many fish are there in All of the
Oceans?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was so cute to hear because
they really thought they would meet Poseidon and not their dad dressed up like
Poseidon!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Geoff looked great as Poseidon
and really went all out on the costume.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Mop handle with tin foiled chopsticks for the Trident, tin foiled crown,
shell necklace, and mop brush for his beard:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>cost- nothing, the look on Horatio and Noah’s faces – Priceless!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Whaaaattt??? Where is Poseidon?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Why are you dressed like that, dad?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hilarious!<o:p></o:p></div>
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We are definitely looking forward to getting to the
Marquesas.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We had made a run back North
to avoid a low pressure system that brought no wind and we had the cross the squall
zone 3 times!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now that we are in the
Southern Hemisphere, we are hoping there is less squall activity, but cannot be
guaranteed of this as the squall zones (usually between 2-5 degrees) are the
same whether in the north or south of the equator… sigh.<o:p></o:p></div>
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So far, the weather has been consistent with @10-15 knots of
wind, which has been a very nice change from the days of crazy wind and
squalls, to no wind, because the squall just past.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We are hoping to keep getting this kind of
wind and no rain or squalls.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Attitude
has also improved a little with the clearing of the squalls.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think wearing wet foul weather gear all the
time really effects your mood.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Also
being able to prepare a decent meal without sliding and falling all over the
place makes a big difference.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sleep was
also a concern, but we seem to catch up a little during the off squall
times.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It has also been very hot and
humid.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When it rains, it is nice because
it cools the temperature down a little, but overall the inside of the boat
still remains warm.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So, the kids are
always only in underwear, while Geoff is always in swim trunks and Miriam is in
underwear.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is a lot of nakedness, but
no one really cares how they look, they just want to feel cool!<o:p></o:p></div>
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The kids are continuing their daily Noon Reports, so they
are tracking our progress and marking it on the paper chart as well as writing
in their journals.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We really have not
had any energy or time to devote to homeschooling during this passage.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even when you have a little down time, you
just want to sleep.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So, no real
homeschooling.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They have been reading some
books and they play games like Monopoly and Battleship and play cards with each
other, as well as playing or reading on their Kindles and occasionally watching
movies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They do come out and help and
talk with us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Noah hangs out with Miriam
when she starts her night watch, so he will fall asleep until he is asked to go
down below because of rain or possible squall coming.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Horatio is good help with getting the
Spinnaker pole set up or put away, and they both watch a little if Geoff or I
need their help.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think it might have
been day 18, we knew we had some chaffing on our Spinnaker guy (sheet), but
after looking at it, we figured it would last us until we got to the
Marquesas.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But low and behold, the sheet
literally snapped on the other end.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All
of a sudden we could hear this loud “kapow” and our spinnaker was flapping off
the side of the boat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All hands of deck
and we were able to get the spinnaker back in the bag before any damage could
happen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We were really lucky as the
weather was pretty calm and there was no damage and we could still handle the
boat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Whew!<o:p></o:p></div>
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Fish Report – 2, nothing really exciting, we caught a
skipjack and a yellowfin.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We can’t
believe how little fish we had been catching.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We just figured we would catch fish almost every other day, at least!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ha ha!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We also have had no Booby issues anymore.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The closer we got to the equator, the less birds
we saw.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But we did have some serious
flying fish!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We always found at least
10-15 fish somewhere on deck.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But there
is nothing like getting smacked in the face with one during a night watch.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is really exciting!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Those little buggers smell bad and are really
slimy and leave behind lots of fish scales, Yuck!<o:p></o:p></div>
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Speaking of smelling bad, the last of our fresh produce is
almost gone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Surprisingly those Green
bags (Greenies, Debbie Meyer’s Green bags, etc.) really made a difference.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We still have tomatoes, romaine lettuce and
carrots that are still good!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The one
thing that should NOT go into a Green bag is potatoes, even though it says it
is ok to.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Talk about rotting putrescence!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I believe our friends on Pesto also had this
same issue.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Maybe one or two of the
potatoes got smashed and then rotted, which then proceeded to rot the entire
bag.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ugh, talk about a soupy smelly
mess.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was worse than changing a
baby’s diaper!<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Day 19 – LAND HO! – April 16, 2016<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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We made landfall at Anaho Bay, Nuku Hiva, Marquesas in French Polynesia around 6:30pm local time yesterday. Making a 19 day 5 hour passage. Not too bad for an El Nino year as we were told “we’d starve” taking so long to get there. Honestly when we look back, there really was not too much in regards to shortage of wind, but there was certainly lots of weather, rain and squalls.<o:p></o:p></div>
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As we were coming into the bay, we thought, what meal are we going to have to celebrate our arrival? Grim possibilities as all of our fresh food except carrots are now gone. Well, we caught a large Wahoo (maybe around 40lbs). It was excitement all around as we were trying to bring the fish in, bring the sails down and get the engine started to get ready to anchor. It always seem to be our routine of coming into a new bay to anchor. Too much going on all at once! Well, it was great to anchor and have a fantastic meal and get so very much needed night of uninterrupted sleep!<o:p></o:p></div>
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The artist Gauguin had it right on this place. Only an artist can capture the beauty here. So, that give me an excuse to not describe the place, but say, put it on your bucket list. Our camera Is pretty average, and does not seem to capture the right colors and shades properly. You need to come see the magnificence of the mountains and how they were carved or weathered away, but covered in so much lush greenery. This bay has a beautiful sand beach that surrounds the bay. So breathtaking. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Landfall Dinner - Wahooooo!</div>
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Entrance to Anaho Bay - north side of Nuku Hiva</div>
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<b>April 20, 2016 – Wednesday<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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We decided to take a hike to the next bay over from us, it would take approximately 1 ½ hours. About 3 kilometers up and 3 kilometers down to the Bay of Hatiheu. It had rained the night before, so the trail, which is considered a mule trail, was about half a foot deep full of mud. It was hot and humid and on the way up, the trail was covered in literally millions of ants, one step down, ants are crawling all over your foot. It was amazing how many ants there were. When we made it to the top and started our decent, the ants were nowhere to be seen. It was incredibly strange, but made the hike that much nicer for your feet and legs! Noah wanted to go back before we were half way up, no he could not wait to get down. It was a much nicer hike down. When we got to the village of Hatiheu, we saw a Magasin (small market) with a restaurant Chez Yvonne, next to it. We were so excited to see a store, as Anaho Bay has no stores, or any businesses, just a few homes. We went in an asked if they accepted American dollars, and they did, which was great since we had not exchanged our dollars yet or gotten to an ATM to withdraw cash. We bought some popsicles and some water and drinks. We noticed the little market carried some frozen meats and a good selection of canned goods, but no real fresh produce, but they did have some potatoes and onions. They also carried some clothing items, like t-shirts and also a skateboard and lighters, etc. <o:p></o:p></div>
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We took our popsicles and drinks outside and sat on the benches that overlook the bay. This Bay does not have any sand beaches, so if you do anchor in this bay, you have to land your dinghy at the quay, which looked very rolly. Anyway, we were thrilled to be getting some rest and something cold to drink, when Geoff and I heard the kids screaming. Oh, my goodness, what on earth could it be??? Our friends on s/v Pesto had just driven up and parked close to our bench! Talk about the best surprise ever! We had been emailing and deciding when and where we would meet next and we would then buddy boat together. They arrived in the Bay of Taiohae, which is the administrative capitol on the south side of the island, and where we would eventually check in. They decided to rent a car that day and check out the island of Nuka Hiva. What luck that they came to this exact place at the same time we were there! The kids were so excited to see Raquel and Paulo, and admittedly, Geoff and I excited to see Alex and Adriana! It was like being back in La Cruz with our friends! <o:p></o:p></div>
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We ate lunch together at Chez Yvonne and talked about our shared experiences during the passage. Pesto was always within 50-70 miles of us, but we could not hear each other on our VHF radios, so we only communicated by email and occasionally heard each other during the Net check in. We shared a lot of the same experiences as we practically took the same path to get here. It was so great to see them and catch up with them. After discussing our passages, we all agreed that it was a challenging passage and at times, very unlikeable, but overall, we managed well with no one getting injured (except Adriana did break one of her toes as they left La Cruz), and the boats not breaking anything. We know we have made an incredible journey that can only be described as a monumental achievement and a once in a lifetime journey that our children will not forget. We know we won’t.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The food at Chez Yvonne was our first taste of Marquesan food. We had some fish and shrimp served with rice, bread fruit and cassava. It was delicious. Alex and Adriana had the goat with coconut sauce. They said their dish was also very good. They said there was a Pizza restaurant in Taiohae and other restaurants and cafes. So, it will be nice to try them when we get there. The only thing that will stop us from eating out a lot is the price. Food is not cheap. Our seafood dish, which we shared, was about $20. So, not like Mexico prices. Something we will have to get used to. But we have to admit that the espresso is very good! We can’t wait for the baguettes and croissants when we get to Taiohae!</div>
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Noah with Anaho Bay in background</div>
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What a surprise to meet Pesto in Hatiheu Bay</div>
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Big Sand Crab on beach in Anaho after our hike back from Hatiheu</div>
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Taiohae Bay - south side of Nuku Hiva. This place actually has a little town with restaurants, grocery stores (magasins) and cafe's with wifi!</div>
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We met up with Pesto and noticed several other Puddle Jump boats in the bay. We caught up with our friends on s/v Scoots and some other boats that we talked to on the radio net. We are now officially checking into the country and then we will do more exploring. We will head about 3 miles west to the next bay, Daniel's Bay, and meet up with s/v Sarita, and Pesto will also be heading over there today. </div>
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<b>February and early March 2016</b></div>
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Continued activities in La Cruz, Bucerias, Punta de Mita, Nuevo Vallarta and Puerto Vallarta</div>
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Kid's Beach Potluck</div>
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Paradise Village Marina in Nuevo Vallarta</div>
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Debra Perfitt's (SV Coastal Drifter) birthday party at</div>
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Falconi's pizza with our kids and Coastal Drifter, Coaster, Yolo, Pesto and Sarita</div>
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Day sail to Punta de Mita on SV Jolly Dogs</div>
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Festival - Day of Our Lady of Peace - Patron Saint of Bucerias. The fisherman decorate their boats and literally surf their pangas onto the beach and have their boats blessed by a priest. They also have dancing, music, and food during the week long festival. We have found that all towns in Mexico have a patron saint that they celebrate with a week long festival. So, you could literally be going town to town and have a Patron Saint celebration going on all the time, year round!</div>
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Pangas motored from La Cruz to Bucerias and waiting for the beach landing</div>
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Adorable little boy in the dance</div>
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Horatio's fort</div>
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Jessica's castle (Terrapin)</div>
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Emma's castle (Terrapin)</div>
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Emily and Presley's caste<br />(Alert and Yolo)</div>
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The kids had a great kid's activity at La Ballena Blanca restaurant. The kids got to learn how a restaurant works. They cleaned up the restaurant and set the tables, took food orders and delivered the food and cleaned up. They also got to keep the tips they made! They each took home $70 pesos!<br />
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Horatio with Colter (Yolo)</div>
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Pete and Sara from Riki Tiki Tavi</div>
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The waiters and waitresses with staff from La Ballena Blanca.</div>
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We decided to do an overnight at Punta de Mita with Terrapin and Yolo. We met up with a new boat from Napa Valley area, SV Banyan. <br />
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We caught a Crevalle Jack on the way to the anchorage in Punta Mita. We heard they are not fish for eating, so we threw it back in. </div>
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The kids watching a movie on Yolo after dinner.</div>
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Dinghy boarding with Yolo.</div>
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Enough at the anchorage during sunset in Punta de Mita</div>
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They learned to raise the Spinnaker.</div>
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We spent an evening in Puerto Vallarta. We were suppose to meet a friend of a friend, but did not connect. We did end up meeting Terrapin and Coaster later that night for dinner in Puerto Vallarta or PV or just Vallarta as they call it here.</div>
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La Iglesias de Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe</div>
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Church of Our Lady of Guadalupe in downtown Puerto Vallarta</div>
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It was time to make a break from Banderas Bay, where La Cruz and PV are located. We decided to head south toward Barra de Navidad with stops in Perula, Chamela, Tenacatita and Barra de Navidad. It was nice to see different scenery and really sail again. It was about a 15-18 hour trip from La Cruz to our first stop in Perula. We buddy boated with Yolo and Terrapin.<br />
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First stop, Perula. </div>
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Our boats from the beach</div>
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Playing in the sand</div>
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Kayaking in the estuary</div>
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Horatio with Colter and Emma</div>
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Noah with Presley and Jessica</div>
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Dinner on Terrapin</div>
We spent several days with Yolo and Terrapin in Perula and Chamela. Lots of fun snorkeling and spear fishing and beach days. We left for Barra de Navidad before them as we were going to meet our family for a couple of weeks.<br />
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Ship stuck on the rocks on the way into Barra de Navidad</div>
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This ship got stuck during the last tropical storm, Patricia, that came through in October 2015.</div>
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Ship peeking through between the rocks</div>
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Kids sailing into Barra de Navidad</div>
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Beautiful Sunset from the beach in Barra de Navidad</div>
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View of the marina and lagoon from the hotel</div>
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We met up with SV Pesto in Barra de Navidad and planned a trip to Colima to see an active volcano. It was a great bus trip, overnight in the town of Comala, and the full day hike to see the Vulcan de Fuego. <br />
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The kids getting comfortable on the bus to Colima</div>
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Paulo and Noah and Horatio and Raquel</div>
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Town of Comala - Amazingly beautiful church, town square, </div>
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great restaurant with botanas (snacks and tequila) </div>
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Hiking with Pesto (Alex, Adrian, Paulo and Raquel) to see Vulcan de Fuego</div>
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Taking a break</div>
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Seriously active volcano! What a sight!</div>
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After the volcano, we toured the Colima Brewery. </div>
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Adriana used to work with the owner, middle, of the brewery during their consulting days.</div>
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The French Baker - Emmerich</div>
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True French baker that delivers the most amazing chocolate, almond croissants, french bread, quiches and tarts right to your boat!</div>
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Kid boat alert in Barra! </div>
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Including our niece, Pippa, and nephew, Griffinn. Pesto, Agamere, Terrapin, Yolo, Shawnigan, </div>
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Cielo Grande and Coaster (now Velvet Sky, they bought a new boat, to be renamed Cape D!)</div>
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Dinner out in Barra - Kid's table</div>
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Geoff swimming with his sister, Catherine and our niece, Pippa, in Tenacatita</div>
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Griffin celebrating his one year birthday. </div>
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(can't see the cake, but it was a delicious Trader Joe's Vanilla Bourbon cake!)</div>
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The office manager, Blanca, had a beautiful baby girl named, Leah.</div>
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This was at the church for her baptism</div>
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But getting close to being back in the water and then provisioning and mentally getting ready to go on a 20-30 day journey across the Pacific.</div>
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Horatio enjoying a crepe at La Creperia in Marina Vallarta.</div>
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Mentally getting ready to cross the Pacific Ocean for a new country and leaving Mexico and the closeness to the United States behind. It is daunting and exciting at the same time. We are very sad to leave behind some great friends, but we are excited to discover new places and learn about different cultures and about ourselves in those new environments. </div>
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The countdown to a new journey has started. We will not have wifi access during this trip. We will not be able to post to the blog or Facebook until we get to French Polynesia. We can all still stay in touch with our iridium email address at: enoughsailing@myiridium.net. Please keep in touch!</div>
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Ok, a lot to catch up on as we are now in March 2016 (what?? so fast!) and we are actually preparing to leave for French Polynesia in about one week. So, here is a recap of the last several months. I will also attach our blog link to my Facebook page. I had not been keeping up on FB in several years and have come to find that it is an easy way to post and update info and keep up with our sailing friends and friends from home.<br />
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It has been a fast and furious couple of months with so many activities, new friends, old friends and lots of good old fun.<br />
Lessons learned:<br />
What we feel we have learned is how long term and fleeting your friendships can be while cruising. <br />
We have come to meet so many new people and meet up with old friends. If we were back home, I don't think friendships would come as quickly or easily or last as long. We also probably wouldn't meet people and have drinks and dinner with them and spend time and plan activities with, then never see them again. In the boating/cruising world, you meet folks, in our case, lots of other boats with kids and not necessarily always with kids, but yes, because we have kids, it's like you have kid boat radar on. You meet, have drinks, eat dinner, cocktails, anchor out, go snorkeling, beach days, hiking, and buddy boat together and so much more. It seems that it happens in a whirlwind fashion. We have done this in the last two months and can honestly say, we have loved every minute of it and can't believe the friendships formed in such a short amount of time.<br />
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As we are ready to depart for French Polynesia, we will leave most of our friends behind. Some days are harder than others for us and the kids, as the friendships we feel will be lifelong and long remembered. We hope to see most of them again. We will head to the South Pacific with some of our new friends, some will sail south to Panama and into the Atlantic ocean for the Bahamas and Caribbean, some will continue to explore Central America and sail for the South Pacific next year, and some will sail north back into the Sea of Cortez. We will truly miss our friends.<br />
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We will miss Mexico with all of the lovely people and kindness we have received. The culture and beauty are truly astonishing. We hope our children will remember and have fond memories of their time and experience in Mexico. We know we will. <br />
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<b>December 2015 - Christmas</b><br />
We made it to La Cruz de Huanacaxtle and right away meet up with friends, SV Pesto and SV Coastal Drifter. We got invited to dinner at a steak house in Nuevo Vallarta with 25 other people. We all fit into a Winnebago(!) for the ride over to the restaurant.<br />
We discovered the amazing Sunday Farmer's Market with croissants and empanadas and handiworks. It is one of the best Farmer's Markets we have been to in Mexico and even in the US sometimes!<br />
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La Cruz Marina</div>
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Noah with Raquel (Pesto) and Ethan (Coastal Drifter)</div>
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Dinner at Sonora al Sur</div>
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Kids table at Sonora al Sur (including some adults)</div>
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Marina La Cruz is a great kid's boating marina as they have their own Kids Club and Kid's Net. The children get to talk on their own VHF radio station and no adults can join in or speak on the Kid's Net. We have to really thank Catrina and Mike for really working hard to keep the kid's activities going and organized.</div>
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We also took some time out to go see Star Wars and have Christmas dinner on the docks.</div>
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Kid's beach sleep over</div>
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Bonfire on the beach</div>
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Lighting lanterns and making wishes</div>
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Kid's ornament making activity in the VIP lounge.</div>
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The kids thought Star Wars was just "ok"</div>
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Christmas Eve dinner</div>
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Katya (Sarita) painting Ella Mae's (Shawnigan) face for the Christmas Day play.</div>
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Matero (Kenta Anae) already with Lord of the Rings makeup an hair.</div>
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Katya the colorful dragon. She does amazing stage makeup.</div>
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Christmas Dinner on Dock 11</div>
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Horatio with Hobbit sideburns carrying salad to Christmas Dinner</div>
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Gingerbread houses made during a Kid activity event</div>
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Full moon over the marina</div>
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We spent many days at the beach and having fun beach activities and exploring La Cruz and the surrounding towns. The state of Nayarit is beautiful!</div>
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Taking the bus to Punta de Mita for surfing and body/boogie boarding</div>
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Yes, we had to cross this crocodile zone to get to the beach!</div>
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Waiting for the waves</div>
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Amazingly large iguanas!</div>
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Christmas Tree in La Cruz </div>
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made of beer cans - Pacifico and Victoria, of course!</div>
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<u>Altata to Mazatlan</u><br />
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The marina we stayed at in Altata was at least 15 miles north of the breakwater entrance/exit, so it took about an hour just to leave Altata. We knew it might be a rough exit as it is very shallow and breakers come over the rocks and beach, but it was quite a ride out. We were happy to leave even though we had such a nice stay during the tropical storm. We left around 10am and sailed overnight to Mazatlan.<br />
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We caught a Sierra Mackerel on the way from Altata to Mazatlan</div>
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We arrived in Mazatlan in the very early morning hours, 4am, and had to wait for high tide before entering the breakwater entrance to the marinas. We saw two boats leaving and figured it was the right time to enter. We practically surfed in and skidded the bottom and kept going! Whew!<br />
We chose to stay at Isla Mazatlan Marina, (it was the least expensive marina, but had nice facilities with free water and electricity) which is pretty much in the center of the main marinas in Nuevo Mazatlan, which is north of the Hotel Zone and the Old Town / Centro area. It was nice to have a fresh fruit and vegetable truck show up in the marina parking lot every other day! What a treat. The area had lots of support for cruisers with a cruiser's guide to Mazatlan. It was nice to have this guide when trying to understand how to take the bus(es) around Mazatlan, where to eat, get groceries, where the chandleries and boat services were, etc. <br />
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Entrance to Isla Mazatlan Marina (they were ready for Christmas)</div>
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We stayed in Mazatlan for about 5 days and really enjoyed our time in there. We went to the very large Municipal Market, where they sell everything from meat, fish, vegetables, shoes, candy, clothes, etc. We also went to an Organic Farmer's market, That was a nice treat to see arugula and quinoa. We also attended the First Friday Art Walk. The first Friday of every month local artists have open houses to showcase their work in their galleries around town. Although it seemed like it was catered to the North Americans, as everyone spoke English and was from Canada or the US, it was a really nice way to visit several galleries in one evening.<br />
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Lovely houses beautifully painted</div>
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Gallery viewing during the First Friday Art Walk</div>
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Pulmonia (open air taxi). Some are converted VW Things!</div>
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Beautiful Sunset in Mazatlan</div>
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Organic Farmer's Market</div>
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We also spent time at the beach in Old Mazatlan and also further north of the marina at Playa Brujas. The kids loved boogie boarding and swimming. It is such a nice way to get cool and relax!<br />
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Outdoor saltwater pool on the beach Playa Olas Altas</div>
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Kids splashing in the saltwater pool</div>
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Building sand castles on the Playa Olas Altas</div>
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Restaurant Mr. Lionsa at Playa Brujas, north of Mazatlan</div>
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Geoff watching the kids boogie boarding</div>
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Upscale mall with a Liverpool store (similar to Macy's)</div>
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<u>Isla Isabel</u></div>
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We had another overnight passage, leaving at 7:30pm and arrived in Isla Isabel around 5pm the next day. Isla Isabel is considered the Galapagos of Mexico. The main anchorage was packed. There were at least 6 boats in the small anchorage and there was some pretty big swell. We decided to anchor outside of the cove and surprisingly it was not too bad. It was rolly, but not as bad as we had noticed the boats rolling in the main anchorage. The next day, we rowed ashore and met s/v Shawnigan. They are from Sausalito, so, we are like, neighbors! They have children and it was nice to meet other boat kids. </div>
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The most unfortunate event at Isla Isabel, was that our camera froze up and we lost all of the beautiful photos we had taken at the "Galapagos like" site! We are bummed that we couldn't share it, but if you look it up on the internet, you will see what we saw. Thousands of iguanas, you literally have to watch where you are walking. Thousands of frigates and blue and brown footed boobies. The amount of fish swimming around your boat and what you see when snorkeling. It truly was a beautiful site. The center of the island was a crater with the most serene lake. Yes, there were mosquitos, but it was still a beautiful site.</div>
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Continuing southwestward toward Banderas Bay where La Cruz and Puerto Vallarta are, we made our way to Matanchen Bay, outside of San Blas. We have read and heard that this is a Jejenes haven due to the town being surrounded by mangroves. I was ready with homemade bug spray ( witch hazel, tea tree oil, eucalyptus oil, and lavender oil). But it was raining once we arrived and that kept the mosquitos and jejenes at bay. Horatio and Miriam were thrilled as they seem to really like us a lot! We anchored out and were completely alone in a very large bay. We were wondering if there might be something wrong with this place besides the jejenes. But another two boats showed up the next day. We rowed to town the next day, but on our way in, one of the dinghy oars broke completely in half It was a slight struggle for Geoff to row us all in and back, but he did it. He spent the next day repairing the broken oar! The beach town in Matachen Bay was very nice and the people were all very friendly - a very common theme in Mexico. </div>
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That evening, as Miriam was reading in bed, she heard a fishing panga close to our boat. She was thinking, maybe someone needs help, but it was midnight! She went out to look and noticed several boat lights completely surrounding us. She called for Geoff and he came up and said there were at least 50 boat lights on the bay. It really freaked us out, but we noticed they were all fishing, some so close their fishing nets were practically under our boat! They fished until 4 am!! It was one of the worst night's sleep Miriam has had in a long time.</div>
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This was during the day, but this is how close the fishing pangas were at midnight!</div>
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Notice the pelicans hanging out waiting for a good catch!</div>
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After two days we made our way to the small beach town of Chacala. We arrived late afternoon and met another kid boat, s/v Agamere. There were also several other boats in the bay and it was nice to see several cruisers. The town was very small, but very quaint. Nice restaurants on the beach and some beautiful vacation homes surrounding the bay. </div>
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Some of the restaurants on the beach in Chacala</div>
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Now we were heading into Banderas Bay and the marina in La Cruz, where we were planning on meeting friends for Christmas. The kids were soooo excited as the La Cruz marina is known as the "kids marina". It is suppose to have a Kids Club and a Kids Net (where only the children talk on the radio to share information). They could not wait to see other boat kids they already knew and have hung out with. But, we decided to anchor out in Punta Mita for a night before heading the about 8 miles into La Cruz. Punta Mita is on the far North side of Banderas Bay, with La Cruz toward the northeast and Nuevo Vallarta toward the east and Puerto Vallarta toward the southeast. It gave us a little downtime to just do nothing on the boat! Nice town with lots of big and beautiful hotels. The Four Seasons and St. Regis are both in Punta Mita.</div>
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<u>Guaymas</u><br />
Dia de los Muertos<br />
We celebrated Dia de los Muertos in Guaymas. We got to see 2 days worth of parades and celebration events. Lots of painted faces and good food. There was a very large table full of bread in the shape of a cross. It was the Pan de Muerto (Bread of the Dead). Bread that was blessed and then to be shared during the picnic at the gravesite or alter of the deceased. <br />
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Happy Halloween</div>
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ghost hanging off the bow pulpit of our neighbhors boat in Guaymas</div>
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Noah and Horatio during Dia de los Muertos celebration</div>
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The kids did some dinghy sailing in the bay at Guaymas with the Sang Vind kids</div>
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We enjoyed James Bond Movie Night in Guaymas with Phil, Debra and Ethan from Coastal Drifter, Alex, Paolo, and Raquel from Pesto and Frans, Sylvia, Dylan and Jayden from Sang Vind. The kids also had a great Minecraft party at Coastal Drifter's rental house in San Carlos. The kids got to meet new kids and have some quality Minecraft battles.<br />
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S/V's Coaster Drifter, Sang Vind, Pesto, and Enough families </div>
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We decided it was time to leave Guaymas/San Carlos area and start the trek down toward Puerto Vallarta. We have seen quite a bit of the Baja coast side and now want to see the mainland Mexico side of the Sea of Cortez. We left San Carlos and not even 25 minutes out of the bay, we hit a squall. It was blowing at least 35-40 mph. It was scary, but we were able to get the jib back in and reef the mainsail. We caught up with another boat, Gitana, after we anchored that evening in Punta Lobos, about 65 miles south of San Carlos. Gitana told us they lost their jib and broke their windlass. We felt pretty lucky as we did not break anything. </div>
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We made our way to Topolobampo and anchored off the entrance of the bay the first night as it was really windy about 22 mph and did not want to come into the harbor at night. The next day, we made it to the marina and saw Gitana and another boat, a catamaran, Hooroo. Hooroo mentioned they took the train to the Copper Canyon and we said that we had wanted to do that, also. </div>
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We toured Topolobampo, a very small town, but has Ohuira Bay which has lots of coves, islands and river inlets. There a quite a few river pangas to provide tours of the Bay.</div>
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Barranca de Cobre, Copper Canyon, is Mexico's Grand Canyon, but four times bigger! It is beautiful and breathtaking. The train ride up there is also quite an adventure. You get to see a lot of very small towns in the State of Sinaloa to Chihuahua. The railroad itself is 656 km long from Los Mochis (almost the Pacific coast) to Chihuahua, the central high plains. It was a great adventure off the boat.</div>
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We stayed in the town of Posada Barranca and visited the Canyon and the Adventure Park that has a cable car and a few ziplines.</div>
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Eating breakfast in the dining car of the Chepe (Chihuahua-Pacifico) train</div>
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We stayed in the town of Posada Barranca which had great views of the Canyon</div>
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Hiking the canyon with a view of the Mirador Hotel above</div>
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Noah in front of the Teleferico (cable car)</div>
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Miriam and Noah on the cable car</div>
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Miriam and Noah at the cable car stop</div>
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Local Tarahumara selling their wares at the cable car stop in the Canyon</div>
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Geoff and Horatio at completion of their 7 stop Tirolesa (zipline) tour of the canyon</div>
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7 ziplines and 2 bridges </div>
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Noah lost a tooth while in Topolobampo and the Tooth Fairy left him a two dollar bill<br /></div>
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We left Topolobampo and made our way to another small town called Puerto Altata. It is about 40 minutes west of Culiacan, the capitol of Sinaloa. We were only planning on staying one night at anchor, but got news of Hurricane Sandra and decided to stay until the hurricane passed and then make our way to Mazatlan. They just finished building a marina here last year. It was empty except for us! There are two other boats in the marina, but belong to local Culiacan residents. The marina here is brand new, so it is very clean and has nice amenities. The restrooms are clean and the showers are very modern. The laundry is free and the restaurant serves great food. The only downside is that it is very close to the mangroves, so there are lots of Jejenes (no see-um) bugs. They are tiny black bugs that bite and leave mosquito like marks. Overall, this is a very nice surprise of a marina. </div>
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Thanksgiving dinner at the restaurant in the marina</div>
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View of the marina restaurant and lighthouse from our boat.</div>
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Back in Breckenridge, the kids wanted to learn how to shoot a rifle and a shotgun. Geoff took the kids to a shooting range in Dillon. He taught them about gun safety, aiming, and how to handle a rifle/gun. The enjoyed it and were actually really good shots.<br />
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Geoff teaching Horatio</div>
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Noah celebrated his 9th birthday with a Donut Hole cake! He didn't want a cake, but wanted donuts, so that is what he got. We stacked about 30 donut holes on top of 6 regular donuts. I think we all went into a sugar coma after that!<br />
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Noah's 9th birthday Donut Hole cake</div>
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Noah gets braces for his birthday! (Great party favors from his Aunt Catherine)</div>
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Phill, Griffinn, Noah and Horatio enjoying the party favors</div>
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We celebrated Oktoberfest with our friends Don and Kristi DesFosses and their son Christopher.<br />
Main Street in Breckenridge had lots of beer, food, music and some activities that the kids could enjoy.<br />
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Horatio trying to hammer a nail with the sharp end of the hammer, while Noah and Christopher await their turns.</div>
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We couldn't believe that Fall was happening so quickly. We felt we had just left the summer heat in Mexico and now the leaves are changing and the weather is starting to get cool. <br />
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One of the fishing ponds in Silverthorne</div>
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Hiking in Frisco - Horatio, Noah and Pippa</div>
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Crossing a log bridge</div>
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Made it to the lake after hiking past some beautiful Aspen changing colors</div>
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All geared up and ready to skydive</div>
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Not sure if it's clear, but two moose where next door to the house eating</div>
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Catherine celebrated her birthday with Pizza and Poker (All in)</div>
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We knew our time was coming to get back to the boat, since it was now snowing in Breckenridge!<br />
We cannot believe we went from Summer, Fall and now Winter so quickly! What a weather change.<br />
We sure are glad that we didn't swelter in the summer heat and humidity in Guaymas and got to experience 3 season changes with our family! It was beautiful. <br />
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Breck ski resort with snow</div>
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We made our way back to Guaymas and the weather is still warm, but not as hot and humid. We are getting the boat back together and ready to sail. While in Guaymas we have run into friends again, which is great. The people you meet while sailing are really an amazing group of people. Everyone is so friendly and so helpful. All of the people in Mexico are also the same way. We will be staying in the Guaymas/San Carlos area for about a week or two and then making our way make into the Sea of Cortez and crossing over to the Baja side and visiting places we've been to and also places we missed on the way up. We will eventually cross back over toward Mazatlan and head to Puerto Vallarta and hopefully make our way on the Pacific Puddle jump across to French Polynesia next Spring.<br />
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Horatio and Noah with the Sang Vind kids, Dylan and Jayden. Getting ready for Halloween and Dia de los Muertos which is a two day celebration this weekend - Oct 31-Nov 2.</div>
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Hiking to the Sandia Crest in Albuquerque, NM</div>
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Hiking with friends and their dogs at Sandia Crest in Albuquerque, NM</div>
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Soda Springs in Jemez, New Mexico</div>
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Horatio in front of a petroglyph at Petroglyph National Park - Albuquerque, NM</div>
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Horatio completing his Junior Ranger program at Petroglyph National Park - ABQ, NM</div>
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Noah at Mesa Verde National Park - Cortez, CO</div>
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Horatio and Noah climbing out of the Cliff Dwellings</div>
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Horatio climbing out into one of the Pit Houses at the Long House</div>
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Noah climbing down</div>
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Miriam, Noah and Horatio down in the Long House</div>
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Mesa Verde National Park</div>
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Lots of cows on the road back to Breckenridge</div>
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We have been catching up with old friends and enjoying spending time in Colorado. The weather has certainly been beautiful, with average temperatures in the mid to low 80's. It really is a beautiful.<br />
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Enjoying the Demolition Derby in Kremmling, CO</div>
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Geoff celebrating his birthday with Strawberry whipped cream cake</div>
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Horatio and Noah at REI in Denver</div>
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Watching the USA Pro Challenge Cycling race in Breck with Christopher DesFosses</div>
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Cyclist coming downhill</div>
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First lemonade stand with neighbor Madison</div>
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Here comes the fox</div>
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Feeding the fox an egg at the Breck house</div>
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Cardboard warriors</div>
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The fox wants to drive the Corvette</div>
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