Sandy Straits June 2026
Once we’d safely crossed the Wide Bay Bar and entered the Sandy Straits, we spent the next week doing what we enjoy most—slowly hopping our way up the inside of […]
Tag Archives: Cruising
Passage from Opua to Noumea
‘Paralysis by analysis’ is a figure of speech we have come to understand all too well when considering ‘weather windows’ for our ocean passages. It is so easy to over […]
Northward Bound
I know, I know- you have wondered what has become of Stars End 2? Have we become marooned on a reef or have we simply blended into village life on […]
Paul & Jenny’s visit to Fiji
Frank & I stood on the beach at Nanuya Island Resort in the northern Yasawa Islands, watching the seaplane slowly motor away from the beach, then struggle to take off […]
Port Vila to Fiji
This is a belated update as we have been so busy since arriving in Fiji, and I have not wanted to spend the time on my computer. However, my sense […]
Port Vila
We have been in Port Vila for almost 2 weeks, and now that Frank has fit the new freshwater pump that arrived a couple of days ago from Australia, we […]
Port Resolution to Port Vila!?
Through our contact person at customs in Port Vila, Stanley, we had organized permission for Frank to take a bus ride from Port Resolution to Lenakel in order to clear […]
I survived the trek to Happy Land!
The next morning, we were on the beach by 7am, ready for the long trek up the steep hillside to Happy Land, some 6 or 7 kms on the top […]
Ponyelongi – Erromango
Our 2 day stay at Ponyelongi (spelt Pongkil on our charts, but Ponyelongi by Chief ‘Jif” Jerry Tiki) will no doubt remain one of the highlights of this entire cruising […]
ERROMANGA OR NOT TO ERROMANGA!
After the fiasco of clearing in at Lenakel on Tanna, Frank & I were torn whether to take a few days out to recuperate from our rough passage to Vanuatu, […]