August 23rd, 2011 What a shock to the system!  Not only has the landscape totally changed; gone are the low lying islands with a myriad of shoals and reefs to watch for, replaced with tall green, lush, rolling hills with lots of protected anchorage to tuck into.  But the town is nothing like Steve remembers…

August 4th Well, things have been anything but boring and predicable on board in the last few weeks.  It seems that the settled winter weather is taking it’s sweet time getting to Tonga, instead we’ve had wave after wave of low pressure coming over from New Zealand, those roaring forties are screaming now, giving us…

We’ve done it! We’ve successfully modified our little boat into a time machine. Yes, right now, you are reading a message from the future! However, we’re still have a few problems with the space time continuum as time seems to pass faster inside the cabin than outside on deck, especially when you are the one…

Hey Guys!! Well, it has been a great couple days here in Niue, we love the place!  We were fortunate to arrive a few days after the monthly ship was in port so the shelves at the store are overflowing, not that we require much but free veggies, and they are rather expensive. We treated…

We made it to Niue,it was a bit of a rough trip, the last two days we had near gale to gale force winds. Yesterday was a public holiday here so this morning we finished checking in, got some money at the bank and are now checking out “town”.  Have a few things to send…