Wednesday 1st to Monday 20th May 2019     Leaving Bundaberg for Lady Musgrave Island At long last we were ready to escape from Bundaberg marina. The alarm woke us at 3.30am from a deep, deep sleep. Outside it was pitch black and very windy as we slipped our lines

Saturday 30th March to Saturday 6th April – Tasmania  We had a week to explore ‘Tassie’, a hire car and a rough idea that we wanted to do a circuit of the island with some hiking in the National Parks. Our flight arrived at Hobart in the evening, we had

  Sunday 3rd to Friday 8th March 2019 – Back to Australia (via Hong Kong) It is a long flight to or from Down Under which we’d already done three times in the last 18 months so we decided to break our journey. Neither of us had been to Hong

Tuesday 11th to 18th September 2018 – Luganville, Espiritu Santo Island, Vanuatu Vanuatu had probably been our favourite place in the South Pacific and although there were many more islands yet to explore we were both feeling rather homesick after seven months away and were also concerned that Hugh’s 95

March 2019. We are now back in Australia after four months home in Bristol, getting Vega ready at the marina in Bundaberg. The plan is to spend a couple of months sailing and exploring the Queensland coast before crossing to the Louisiade islands of Papua New Guinea then three months

Tuesday 14th to Monday 27th August 2018 Erromango The next island up the chain of islands of Vanuatu was Erromango and having left Port Resolution at dawn for the 55 mile sail, we anchored before dusk in Dillon’s Bay. It is not an ideal anchorage, getting a strong swell from

Friday 3rd to Tuesday 14th August We cleared out of Fiji with Customs and Immigration at Vuda Marina, filling in all the forms about firearms, livestock and alcohol quantities on board yet again, in duplicate, and were given the departure certificate which we would need to present on arrival in

Friday 20th July to Friday 3rd August Suva  It was a glorious six hour sail north from Kadavu to Suva. With only 7-8 knots of wind we were finally able to try out the new top-down furling system for our cruising chute that we’d had installed in New Zealand. The sail

Wednesday 11th to Friday 20th July   Kadavu & the Great Astrolabe Reef Another overnight sail, leaving Matuku at 4pm to cover the 80 miles west, we arrived at the top of the island group soon after dawn and enter through the northernmost passage in the reef. We had arranged

Wednesday 4th July to Wednesday 11th July 2018 From Vanua Balavu we set sail in the morning for the 120 mile overnight sail southwest towards Totoya, one of the less visited of the Fijian islands. We said goodbye to our fellow cruisers, two of the other boats going south and two