2010 Life at Sea

We spent the whole day opening and closing doors. About every 10 to 15 min a rain shower would come across the mountain. Would rain for about 5 min then stop. It did that ALL DAY! Jim went fishing with Rod “Lizzie”in his dink for a while, no fish, just got soaked. There are now […]

Boy did we have a lively ride back. Part of it was a following sea, looking out the back door the rollers were above the overhang on the “back porch” calmed a bit once we rounded the top of the island and as we got on the W side had a decent ride, not flat.

We saw Holly off at 1p this afternoon. She was on a twim otter prop plane. Glad it was only an hour ride to Santo. She should have another nice vacation, 2 nights in Oyster Island Resort, a 5-6 hour lay over in Vila. Think she’s going to take a taxi into Numbawan Cafe and

We came on around to Sola today (Sat). Tomorrow the weather is supposed to be worse. We’ll see Holly off Monday morning then head back to Waterfall Bay til the weather lets us head to the Solomons. We have a good signal on our local cell phone, maybe we’ll try to give you a call

Guess we’re not going to get up to the Reef islands while Holly is here. It’s just too windy and rough. We do have to get to the other side of Vanua Lava to Sola before Monday morning. Instead of going around the top we’ll probably go back south, around and up to the east

Waterfall Bay, It has rained for the better part of 2 days, and very windy. Yesterday we did a short fishing trip with Chief Jimmy, wife Lillian, and their 2 boys. It was sporty, had a couple of nice hits but the only thing we put on board was a rainbow runner one of the

We arrived at Waterfall Bay around 3:00p, no fish again. Had a bumpy ride everything got rearranged in the boat. Chiefs from both sides of the waterfall came out to greet us, hoping for fish. We did trade rice and sugar for some of their local produce. Jim has promised them a fishing trip tomorrow….not

14*18′.786S/167*25′.656E arrived here about 5:00p, the only thing to meet us was a lonely dog. OOPS forgot the big pod of dolphin about 2 miles out, they are always a welcome sight. This Island has been evcuated do to the Volcano being so active. This was the village we enjoyed so much last year. Such

The horse Holly was on was a stallion until 6 months ago. She had a brisk ride. Lope Lope Bay, Santo, Vanuatu near Oyster Bay 15*22′.458S/167*11′.424E Martha

It’s calm not a ripple on the water, cool and the sun is shinning. 6:45a. Jim is headed into Luganville with ASYLUM’s and LIZZIE’s. Holly and I are going to stay around here. Generator seems to be working fine. Having some issues with the auto pilots, sure not heading out with out those working right