Thoughts on Tonga

Like many over the past several days, I have watched video clips and news footage covering the huge explosion of the Hunga-Tonga-Hunga-Ha’apai volcano in the Kingdom of Tonga. We are lucky enough to have stopped in Tonga during our Pacific crossing in 2011 and spent 3 months sailing throughout the island group. We visited the…

Action Packed August

I don’t know about where you are but here in Tonga we’ve had an action packed August so far. It started in late July actually, when we took a couple of Canadian guys who are running a restaurant here out for an overnight sail. They have been here for a couple years and haven’t seen…