The easiest way to explore a town when you are boating is to have to find the immigration and customs offices to check in. No body ever knows where they are and you get a different set of directions from each person you ask. Finally we have the check i…
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Efate Island – Havannah Harbour
Our 6 hour trip from Maskelynes to Efate is boringly smooth. Glen and Trish were disappointed (Not) that we didn't have huge waves and howling winds. Upon arrival we adjust our chosen anchoring spot several times based on a variety reasons and fina…
Maskelynes
From Ambrym Island it is a three hour hop over to the Maskelyne Islands. This is a group of small islands off of the south tip of the very large island of Malekula. We choose to anchor in a calm bay beside the island of Awai. It is picture perfect calm…
Ambrym Island
By now, heading out for the 6 hour passage from Santo to Ambrym Island doesn't phase Glen and Trish at all. They can even walk up and down the stairs while we are underway and carry things in their hands to boot! We anchor in front of the village R…
Rendevous of Friends
Today, after a leisurely breakfast, all of us (5) pile into the rubber tender to go to the Aores restaurant where we catch the water taxi across the channel to Luganville. We are going to explore it's great expanse…. one main street. Half way acr…
Luganville – Vanuatu
We slid into Luganville on Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu at about 1:30 pm and anchored in front of the town, hopped into the dingy to go see the Customs, Immigration and Quarantine people. This is not hard, just time consuming as it entails visiting three di…
Final Stretch to Vanuatu
It has been a great day on the water today. We spent the majority of the day enjoying ourselves on the upper fly bridge. First land encountering should happen at 7:00 am Sept 26/11 when we pass between Pentecost and Ambrym Islands. We'll angle nor…
In the Middle
We've reached our mid way point on our trip from Fiji to Vanuatu. Strangely it looks exactly like every other point along the way since we lost sight of land – Go figure! Also a bit of a surprise is the number of fishing vessels (four so far) that …
Leaving Fiji for Vanuatu
So I guess you can tell that we're back on the boat, based on the flurry of blog entries, I finally have time to write. We had such a frantic month at home trying to fit all of our work in that all of my good intentions for uploading lots of pictur…
Fiji Highlights
Fiji has been everything and so much more than we had expected. The people stand out with their friendly welcoming attitude. They all holler "Bula!" and smile widely when they meet you. The landscape is beautiful, though no more so than any o…
