Great Barrier Reef Here I am idleing along 25 miles off Cairns’ Harbour’s entrance through the Great Barrier Reef. The entrance looks really wide on the map, but our official policy is to do reef entrances during daylight hours only. (unless real inconvenient) This time we are anxious to get our first glimpse of the […]
The Solomon Island people have a habit that makes cigarette smoking seem like a clean, healthy, and desirable personal life choice. Ever hear of beetle nut?? Its walnut sized, green, soft covered nut. The user uses his teeth to peel and then chew some part of it. Then a small amount of lime (powered coral)
PT109 Now I know how sir Hillary felt on the mountain top. How John Glen felt when he stepped into the space capsule. I’m talking about the emotional high that comes to anyone who completes a life long goal. After months on the high seas, many countries, much paper work, tsunamis, escapes from pirates, sharks,
Flies Flies in paradise, flies in your food, flies on you drinks, flies in your face, flies on your hand, flies on your legs, feet and other unmentionable places, the South Pacific is flies. Seems to be no connection between areas with no village, and ones of with villages . The largest village we visited
Super salesmen In the US of A we all dread the day we have to actually go and purchase the car that we have been dreaming about, checking out the ads for, talking to others about, and making list of what we can do without to make the payments. We know that when we approach
Coconut Crab Survey If you have ever seen a little hermit crab out of its shell then you know what a Coconut Crab looks like. Just imagine the hermit crab on steroids. Like a monkey compares to King Kong. They don’t worry about a shell to live in for the same reason Great Whites don’t
Solomon Chicken Caper For the first time in 4 weeks Special Blend was not rocking and rolling. Port Mary, Solomon Islands was like heaven. The people were very friendly, beautiful bay, white beaches, palm trees, and best organized village we have seen, anywhere. The first night of our arrival, after a 300 mile 48 hour
More volcano stuff Gaua is a very small island about 10 miles across and is one of the northern most of the Vanuatu group. As all the islands of the group, it was formed by volcanic activity. Gaua ‘s central extinct volcano’s calderon formed a freshwater lake that is quite rare and large for this
Ain’t Right Our arrival at Asanvari had been anticipated by me since we left Australia. In 2008 Kip and I hooked a Blue Marlin while trolling in the dink, within ½ mile of anchorage. After 45 minute or so we lost him and caught a 50# Wahoo instead. Then Tom caught a 50# Wahoo. In
Diving for Pune According to the guide books and National Geographic the young men of Pentecost risk their lives by diving off a tower to insure a good Sweet Potato crop. That doesn’t make much sense in our world and after several conversations with the young men of Pentecost it doesn’t make much sense to
