Niue Island

We are on our way to Vava’u group of Islands in Tonga. Our first stop will be Neiafu at Latitude 18 44’ S Longitude 174 W. We left Niue last Night at 10 pm. It is a short trip about 250 miles west of Niue (36 hours).

Today is a beautiful day [...]

 
Rarotonga is our first stop in the Cook Islands and they speak English. They are closely affiliated with New Zealand with a population of 12,000. So it is a pretty busy Island, they  even have a movie theater, the old fashion big screen kind and of course we went, but as usual I do not [...]

Well I got my first tattoo or should I say Tattoo’s. In Polynesia tattooing is a very a very ancient custom. They use to cover their complete body with tattoos. They did it not only for ornamentation and distinction but to guard their heath and spiritual well being. Each object is comprised of a number [...]

After swimming with the whales our life is going to sound boring. That was such a highlight. Anyways we left Huahine for Taara last Saturday and stayed there for one week. Taara is about 20miles from Huahine. We visited about four different anchorages in that time. It was a very pretty island, but we mostly [...]

We did it and it was the most awesome and scariest thing I have done underwater. We were getting ready to leave Huahine, without having pursued diving with Humpback whales. The cost was going to be $400 for the three of us with no guarantee we would see any whales. Anyways I meet a boat [...]

Huahine
We left Moorea on Thursday night for Huahine (latitude 16 43’ S, Longitude 151 02” W) which was 90 miles away (15 hours). We only had a double reefed main and were doing 6.5 knots. It was blowing 25030 knots all night with 8 -12 ft seas. I loved it.
Huahine is another beautiful Island. On [...]

We left Tahiti on Monday and arrived in Moorea (latitude 17 30’S longitude 149 50’W) staying in Opunohu Bay. It was only an 18 mile trip from Tahiti, so all went well.
After arriving we discovered that the repair to the refrigerator system was not working. So we had to go back to Tahiti to get [...]

Tahiti is what always represented the pacific Islands to me. This is where Capt. Cook and his motley crew of sailors first encountered the beautiful and free loving Tahitian women. I am sure things have changed since then but I really don’t’ know yet as we have stopped at out of the way anchorages on [...]

Well we made it to Rangiroa Atoll without anything else going wrong. What a beautiful place this is. It is totally different than the Marquesas Islands which are very Mountainous. These are coral atolls, no hills, highest point 35’. It is hard to describe an Atoll but basically it is an Island with the center [...]

Well, well, well here we are at sea again. We left on a Friday!! Old sea lore says “never leave on a Friday for a sea voyage”. Well we did and guess what?? We won’t do it again.
Let’s see, it started out OK, nice winds, blue sky, mild seas, only a 3 day 500 mile [...]