Western Samoa is no more. Its name was changed to simply Samoa in 1997. However, in an effort to differentiate it from its neighbor to the East, American Samoa, we continue to refer to it as Western Samoa as many others do. Samoa is between longitu…
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American Samoa
American Samoa has been a possession of the United States since 1900, and as such, it is the only U.S. soil south of the equator. The U.S. operated a coaling station and naval base in Pago Pago until World War II, and the islands were a …
Suwarrow
We had a bumpy 5-day passage to Suwarrow and almost did not leave when some air in the main engine had it running very rough. When bleeding the air, the vent plug broke in two pieces and luckily, I had a close match in my spares. We had a few engine …
The Society Islands
After the PuddleJump party, we stayed in Mo’orea for a few more days. We swam with sting rays and black-tip reef sharks and enjoyed a tour of a juice factory. We sampled all of their drinks and even bought a few bottles of vanilla and pineapple lique…
PuddleJump parties and Mo’orea
We started 3 days of PuddleJump parties on Friday night in downtown Papeete. Emily had a sail on an outrigger canoe and we picked up our free tee shirts and other information about the Society islands. About 70 boat crews were paraded through town be…
Tahiti
Papeete is a mere 200 miles from the tuamotus which is pretty short to get our new batteries and other things that were supposed to be waiting for us. We anchored for the first night and then went into Marina Taina the next morning. We …
Tuamotus
The Tuamotus used to be "real" islands, like the Marquesas. Over time, they grew fringing coral reefs, like the Society Islands (Tahiti) have today. But the Tuamotus are even older than the Societies, and the islands themselves have gradual…
Marquesas
All things considered we were ready to leave these beautiful islands. We were stuck in a rolly anchorage in Nuku Hiva for about a week and half since we needed the internet to formulate a plan to replace the batteries. In hindsight, it was time well …
Landfall in Paradise- Fatu Hiva
Emily Grace has dropped anchor after 21 days at sea and is enjoying blessed silence in the Bay of Virgins on the western side of the island of Fatu Hiva. This island was made famous by Thor Heyerdahl's book of the same name and the Bay of Virgins …
Far Out Man!
The crew of Emily Grace is way out there! As in we are mighty close to the one place on Earth that is the farthest away from any land. I googled that fact before we left the Galapagos and, sure enough, it’s a spot in the Pacific Ocean. The actual sp…
