we are anchored at matiu island in morova lagoon, lizzie is with us and boat we met last year, miami, is here. asylum expected. great little anchorage, kind of place could spend several days and no locals. went to community where we anchored last night and they had a carvings showeing, bought a few things, […]
Marovo Lagoon, arrived about 8:30am. Had a nice ride most of the way. The first few hours out of Honiara was the worst. The moment the anchor was dropped we had a visitor.This is a Seventh Day Adventist area today,Saturday, is their sabbath. Guess John skipped church! We told him we were going to take
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Yesterday morning Jim went to the Heritage Place, a beautiful resort hotel , met with Trixie, the manager on duty at the restaurant, we wanted to have a late lunch. She said they quit serving at 2p. Jim explained it was our 43 anniversary and we didn’t want to be out and about going back
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Hot again, but busy getting stuff ready to head out tomorrow or Fri. Need a new VHF antenna. Jim got one yesterday but when we got back to the boat it was the wrong one. SO back again to the store way out of town. Our boat guard is doing some boat work today, shinning
I have NEVER been so hot. We cannot run the air com enough to suite me. Yesterday when we went into town Jim and I went to a little cafe for lunch, had THE best salad, well let me tell you I started doing the quick step to the bathroom about 4am. WHEW!!!! I’m tired!
09*25′.672S/159*57′.394E, we arrived around 1pm, checked out just how we were supposed to anchor and tie up to the rocks. Rod “Lizzie” put his dink in to help us tie, them Jim went with him. I can say for sure this is NOT the best place we have ever been. We will stay on the
We had a wonderful trawler day on the water. Dropped anchor about 2:30p Lizzie picked us up for a short snorkel, didn’t find a good spot so we walked around the small island in the bay. While having sun downer drinks on our boat (or when we were snorkeling) someone took the deck chairs off
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We have just spent the most memorable 4 days at the Tavanipupu Private Island and Resort. Pamela Kemberly and her staff treated us like family and royalty. Paul, the chef, served magnificent meals. I don’t know the last time we ate out this many nights in a row. Any one cruising out this way, this
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PaPa Roberts was born on Fri 13th of August in 1885 and i think today he was looking after me this morning. We are anchored in the most beautiful lagoon, bow anchored and stern tied to a mangrove root. About 2:30am something woke me up, I sat straight up in bed and yelled “what was
10*05′.319S/161*22′.557E 36nm to the entrance of Guadalcanal.we’re traveling 5.2kt heading 307*. We left Port st Mary yesterday about daylight, around 5pm we pulled into Selwin Bay for dinner and a nap. Our speed had been up and we were going to get to the entrance around 3am. So instead of hanging off the reefs and
