Dafne

Lagoon 500 with a family of five aboard, Paul, Lani, Stella (16), Cleo (14), and Jade (11).

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Posted: Tue, 27 Nov 2018 - 00:00

We've anchored the boat at Noel Hudson's marina in Liapari. He'll look after it for two weeks while we fly home.

Posted: Sat, 24 Nov 2018 - 00:00

We found a beautiful spot to anchor on our way to Liapari: Clear water, pristine beach. We'll spend a restful night here and then press on to Liapari, where we'll leave the boat for a quick (15 day)

Posted: Thu, 22 Nov 2018 - 00:00

We've stopped in Gizo just for the night to buy some cockroach traps for when we leave the boat next week.

Posted: Wed, 21 Nov 2018 - 00:00

Our friends on Pelican have dubbed this anchorage "fish soup," for the abundance of fish on the reef. It can get a bit sharky at dusk. But, we've had a pretty successful run here. I even speared a

Posted: Sun, 18 Nov 2018 - 00:00

We're anchored in a spot called Sarumara. It's on the outer reef of the lagoon, but still gets some traffic from fisherman and locals wanted to sell some carvings—which are pretty amazing. We've done

Posted: Wed, 14 Nov 2018 - 00:00

We're anchored across the pass from Mbili, a super friendly village with a robust volleyball tradition. We did a dive on the reef with a local dive master, Lisa, which was great.

Posted: Sat, 10 Nov 2018 - 00:00

We're anchored up in Peava, on the southeastern tip of the Marovo Lagoon. The diving, freediving, and spearfishing are great here. The girls did a freediving course at a local resort. We've also

Posted: Mon, 5 Nov 2018 - 00:00

We've spent several days here in Honiara, the capital, topping off on diesel and provisioning. The diesel has to be carted by hand from the petrol station, which is a bit of a pain. There's a bulk

Posted: Tue, 30 Oct 2018 - 00:00

Conditions are pretty light, so we're motorsailing. All day we've had the stratovolcano Tinakula off our port beam, replete with its frothy, exploding peak. Pretty spectacular.

Posted: Mon, 29 Oct 2018 - 00:00

It was hard to pull ourselves away from the villagers in Mol'a, but we finally headed out to the outer reef. This place looks epic in Google Earth, and it is indeed beautiful. But, on our

Posted: Mon, 22 Oct 2018 - 00:00

Wow. This place is off the charts. We followed Field Trip's track and anchored up off the northern tip of Fenualoa, off the village of Mol'a. The people here are wonderful. They greeted us with

Posted: Fri, 19 Oct 2018 - 00:00

We hit some pretty intense squalls on the way across to the Reef Islands, including a near whiteout. We had to anchor a bit blind, trusting our Google Earth images in Ovital. The village here

Posted: Mon, 15 Oct 2018 - 00:00

We've arrived in the town of Lata on Nendo Island (Santa Cruz) in the Solomon Islands. There's no place to anchor in front of the town, so we're over on a ledge across the harbor. The town is

Posted: Sat, 13 Oct 2018 - 00:00

We had a pleasant day sail over to the Torres Islands yesterday, our last stop in Vanuatu. It's been a fantastic two months. We've loved the people and the landscape. The village here on Tegua is on

Posted: Fri, 12 Oct 2018 - 00:00

It's pretty cool anchoring up in an extinct volcano. The harbor is a bit deep, but there's a ledge in the southeast corner, near the village, where we found about 13 meters with good holding. The

Posted: Wed, 10 Oct 2018 - 00:00

Lovely anchorage along the reef at Rowa, just north of Vanua Lava. Uninhabited, but some fisherman from a village on VL came over for the night, bearing fish! Had a great snorkel on the reef. Will

Posted: Mon, 8 Oct 2018 - 14:54

At anchor in Sola. All checked out, but the locals are having a celebration with lots of singing, string bands, and kastom dancing, none of which can be missed! The musical culture in this part of

Posted: Wed, 3 Oct 2018 - 17:00

Easy day sail around to the top of Gaua, ferrying a sick woman from a remote village here for medical attention. Anchored off Losalava.
Psyched to do the waterfall hike tomorrow.

Posted: Fri, 28 Sep 2018 - 17:50

At anchor in Hog Harbor, Santo, Vanuatu. Waiting for this freak TC Liua to head far away west before we continue to the Banks and Torres.

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