Wednesday 19th April Unfortunately, due to the terrible wifi here on fabulous Isabela Island, I have been unable to post Galápagos Part 2 and photos. So that will have to wait until we reach French Polynesia. In the meantime Hugh will be posting regularly from the Pacific, plus putting our

Sunday 19th March to Monday 10th April 2017 The days of being able to anchor in an isolated bay in the Galápagos and take a dinghy ashore to explore are long gone. Now tourism on the islands is strictly regulated with a view to conserving the environment, preventing the introduction

Saturday 11th to Sunday 19th March 2017 A lot of cruisers are bypassing the Galapagos because of the cost and hassle involved, but Hugh in particular was determined. He had originally envisaged The Voyage of Vega as a journey following in the footsteps of Darwin (although the great naturalist had,

Wednesday 8th to Saturday 11th March 2017     We left the mooring buoy at Balboa yacht club at 6.30am on a still, windless morning and motored out into the smooth, glassy sea. Keeping well to the edge of the buoyed channel we passed large cargo ships on their way

Thursday 2nd to Wednesday 8th March 2017 Cruisers often act as line handlers for other boats before their own boat goes through the Panama Canal so that you’ve got a better idea of the procedures involved, and we were pleased to help friends Terry and Carol in their boat Little