Author Archives: Heather
4th Time Lucky
Thursday 16th June 2022 We’re heading back to Denerau today, for Karen and David to get their flight home tomorrow. We’re going to miss their company, they’ve been lovely guests. Although they’ll both be happy to be going home I’m sure; we’ve had a couple of restless, uncomfortable nights, with Daisy rocking and rolling to the extent […]
Searching For Lapita Pottery, and Abandoned on a desert Island.
Friday 10th June Back in the Islands, we’re anchored in the beautiful bay at Musket Cove, on the island of Manolo, where we were able to meet up with our friends Kristine and Bruce on their yacht, also anchored in the bay. Kristine is the friend who introduced me to Lapita pottery; years ago she […]
Post Covid, Back To The Islands of Fiji
Tuesday 7th June 2022 Bob and crew left for the islands exactly two weeks ago today, and since then I’ve been chasing around in my usual frantic state, working my way (as efficiently as possible) through an enormous list of “To Do” jobs. I don’t do the passages anymore, I’ll be flying to meet Captain […]
Introduction
Previously, May 2019. What my blog is about: Bob and I returned to New Zealand from Australia last August , after three months sailing with our friends Don & Lesley Brown, on their Oyster 66, ‘True Blue’, with the 2nd Oyster World Rally. We then took four months in America and Europe visiting family before returning to New Zealand […]
Perceptions of Paradise
Are we not all fortunate that the human race is so different, with different goals, ideals and perceptions. Take Paradise for example, we all have our own perceptions of that, although for most people it’s typically connected to some beach or vacation. I spend about five to six months a year sailing the Pacific, and […]
Trip Up Mount Yasur Volcano, Tanna
Tuesday 20th August 2019. We (meaning me, Bob, Glenn, Paul, Trish & about 25 other yachties) took the dinghy across to the yacht club here in the bay of Port Resolution, on the island of Tanna (Tanna means ‘Earth’ in Tannese), to meet Stanley, who runs the yacht club, and who had also organized […]
Beauty & the Beast!
Still in the lagoon at Falaga. We moved anchorge today from, what I shall always remember as ‘Mosquito Bay’, to another bay in the lagoon, that I shall think of as ‘Mini Conch Bay’. Once safely anchored, we took the dinghy ashore to explore. This beach was so much nicer than the slimy mud flats […]
On To Falaga, Lau Islands, Fiji
Having spent almost 13 years living on Crazy Daisy, and having visited some of the most beautiful and isolated parts of the world, I’ve become a little hard to impress when it comes to Islands, after all they’re just Islands. Palm trees, white sand beaches, turquoise blue water, what’s not to love, but at the […]
Oh For Water!
Our first few weeks in Fiji it seemed as though there was more time spent on fixing the damn water-maker than there was out having fun and exploring! Bob replaced all the water-maker hoses on Daisy in 2017, upgrading them to new tougher hoses, with a higher psi than was actually required, but, as they […]
Nutter’s who live on Boats!
Life’s rarely dull when you live on a boat, there always seems to be something going on. Yesterday, just as we were getting ready to go ashore, the rally leader, Nigel, came tearing across in his dinghy to ask for help, as one of the rally boats had managed to go so close to the shore […]