We got up early and headed to the beach so that our room could be serviced and we could come back for a feast of bread and jam for breakfast. After an hour reading on sun loungers we headed back only to find that it hadn’t been done yet so we decided to have breakfast anyway as we were starving. Full of baguette we headed back to the beach to read our books for a while to kill some time before we set off on the transfer to the nearby motu which was offered by the watersports place on the beach. [View Full Entry]

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We were woken by the sounds of people going for breakfast again around 8am, and by 8.30am I’d dragged Matt out of bed so that we could go and see how expensive breakfast was in the bar. The lagoon looked very inviting even at that time in the morning when it was sunny but not too hot. We ordered a couple of crossiants and coffee each (£8 in total) and we made a pact to go and buy more bread so that we didn’t have to spend this much for breakfast again. Although we’d been missing coffee, this was more like [View Full Entry]

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Our room doesn’t have very thick walls so I was woken at 6.30am as people started going for breakfast. I managed to doze off but every now and again I’d be woken by someone else opening their sliding door. By 8am the cleaners were into the rooms vacuuming. Although breakfast wasn’t included in the rooms, it seemed that everyone at the resort was heading to the bar. When the cleaner had finally made it to the room next door at 8.30 I thought it was time we got up. I dragged Matt out as we’d decided the night before to walk [View Full Entry]

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We set off back into town first thing to change some travellers cheques at the bank. The bank was completely different to ours - there were just three desks inside and each had little cubicles around them and it was all very old fashioned. Everything had to be written down manually twice which took ages. We must have been in there for 40 mins by the time we finally got our money, and then the banker just opened his unlocked drawer and took out a wad of cash! Maybe in Tahiti people don’t rob banks as it didn‘t feel very secure! [View Full Entry]

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The passage to the Tuamatu’s was fairly uneventful. Once again, we ran out of wind after the first day and had to motor for the remaining three. If we had of left two days earlier, we would have had too much wind…seems to be a reoccurring theme. The Tuamatu’s are a group of 78 coral atolls that generally enclose a lagoon. The pass into the atolls are to be navigated with care as they are relatively narrow and have strong currents running depending on the time (high and low tide). Best time to attempt the passes is during slack water, though [View Full Entry]

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.........before departing Bora Bora for Samoa. We will provide details of our time in The Society Islands when internet access is more readily available. Happy days. [View Full Entry]

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Once upon a time, in a land far, far away, Sailing Yacht Woodsia arrived in the mysterious land of Marquesas. The people spoke a strange tongue but they all looked like Kiwis. It is a tropical island with tall volcanic mountains that jut sharply into the deep deep sea (1,185m high and 40 - 100m deep). It was warm and the hills were lush and green, a magnet to clouds that had never seen land (it rained a lot). Anyway, fairy tale stories aside on our arrival at the island of Niku Hiva, we were welcomed into the harbour by other [View Full Entry]

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Close your eyes and imagine for three weeks you and one other (recommend that it is someone you get along with rather than someone you fantasise about), are confined to your lounge room, kitchen and bathroom, now divide that space into one third. With the exception of email, you have no contact with the outside world, no television, no newspapers and no internet. You are only able to prepare meals with food that you currently have available to you and the alcohol has been confiscated. By the way you are unable to use the microwave, bread maker, freezer, food processor or [View Full Entry]

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.Tahiti Part 2 Hi everybody and sorry for the delay for Tahiti Part 2! Part 2 of my trip in Tahiti. On Monday my father and I took the ferry to Papeete to join my twin who arrived the day before, and my mum. Had something to eat and then we went to the movie and see 'Bienvenue chez les ch'tis' obviously by the title a french one. It is the most popular French movie of the decade I think they sold 20 million tickets. It's about the Ch'tis; Ch'tis are from North of France so it's more about cliches and [View Full Entry]

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May 30 OK, here’s the text that did NOT get uploaded to the blog in the Marquesas. Well, we’ve been living on the boat for about four months now, we’ve sailed over 5,000 nautical miles together, and we’re all still friends! We left the Galapagos over two months ago, spending 22 days at sea on the crossing to the Marquesas Islands. At 3,210 nautical miles, that will be our longest ocean passage between home and New Zealand. (A nautical mile is 6,000 feet, a bit longer than a statute mile, so that works out to almost 3,700 of the more familiar [View Full Entry]

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