Category Archives: The Pacific
Shark Bait! For The Love of Tomatoes
While tomatoes have always been one of my favorites in the fruit and vegetable group, I’ve previously taken them for granted, they don’t exactly fall under the “luxury” food category and are plentiful in any supermarket, at least that was before I came to the Pacific. I had provisioned really well for our 25 day […]
Correction to Post “Our Fabulous Week in Hiding””
It turns out that there is a restaurant in Anaho bay, it wasn’t “Chez Juliette” as mentioned in the guide book, but a sea facing room in a private house. There are no signs, nothing to indicate it serves meals; had it not been for our friends Sue and Alan we would never have known it […]
If It Can, It Will !
It’s 3am, I can’t sleep, so I’m sitting in the dark, in the rain, on deck, staring at the boats in the bay wondering again how any of us manage to live this way! I recently met a guy living on a sailboat without a water maker or any refrigeration, I asked him how on […]
Our Fabulous Week in Hiding
Anaho Bay Saturday 23rd April Early Saturday morning we followed our friends Rick and Roz, in their Oyster ‘Reya’, out of the bay of Taiohae, where we’ve been for the last three weeks, for a four hour sail around the coast to the sublime bay of Anaho. The sail around was a little rolly, but […]
Eating Out In Nuku Hiva
The Marquises are a group of mountainous islands of volcanic origin, the largest being Nuku Hiva with a land mass of 330 km. The main town in Nuku Hiva is Taiohae which has a scattering of houses along the shore and rising a little way up the steep hillsides, a hospital, one bank, two […]
My Amazing Provisioning Skill.
My family has constantly teased me abut being a horder, when it comes to food. My pantry at home resembles a fully stocked Gourmet section of Waitrose (upmarket UK supermarket). I think I must have been starving in a previous life, or had an experience that left me with a fear of never having […]
Nuku Hiva, Marquises
We arrived in a storm at 10am, on Saturday 2nd April Now (one day later) we’re bobbing quietly in the most beautiful bay, surrounded on three sides by volcanic mountains. The Island is as green as anywhere I’ve ever seen, but given the amount of rain they obviously get here, it’s not surprising. It also […]
Will this journey ever end?
Today was sunny with lovely blue skies and little white clouds, the sea was still rolly, but not too uncomfortable. Tonight its a different story; it’s 10pm, I’m just starting my 3 hour night watch and the ocean looks as black as engine oil, it even looks greasy, its so shiny. The moon is huge […]
Quick Update
Thursday, 10th March 2016. Day Five Some More Pacific Wildlife The beautiful Red Foot Boobie was still on the pulpit this morning at 8:30, but left shortly after to continue the days fishing. The sea was very flat and calm this morning, with no white water visible. The water maker had been making water all […]
The best Night watch experience ever…
Wednesday, March 9th, 2016. Day Four At last the arrival of the Dolphins, and the best Night watch experience ever… Despite all the motion I slept well and woke refreshed, happy to see calm sea’s once again. Bob spent the day working on the water maker, I’m in serious need of a shower and hair […]