Bora Bora is well known around the world as a tropical paradise in French Polynesia. We were there for a week and found it to be our least favorite island. Yes the water was very clear in some of the ...
We arrived at Raiatea at the Fa'aroa Bay. Although it is a far cry from clear water, we had come to check out a organic farm and Botanical gardens just up the river. Once again we traveled with Gordon ...
After an overnight passage we arrive at the pass for Huahini. Getting in the pass wasn't too bad even with a south swell pumping and the surfers enjoying the perfect wave conditions. However navigatin ...
Moorea is just a short day sail from Tahiti. We picked an anchorage on the North Side of Moorea, but it was crowded, there were lots of bommies, and there were tour boats whizzing by. The next day we ...
Papeete in Tahiti is about as different as you can get from Tikehau. We booked at slip a Papeete Marina so we could be right in town close to all the restaurants and hardware stores.The Papeete marina ...
After a very restful night at The Garden Farm, we traveled to Tikehau Manta Cleaning Station. It's located just off a small Motu. Motu is word the Polynesians use for a small island in an atoll or off ...
We left Nuku Hiva for our next 5 day passage. We started in the afternoon, and were rewarded on our first night with around 20-30 dolphins that stuck around for about 30 minutes. We hadn't seen many d ...
Our first stop was Hanamoenoa Bay. What a treat! We finally enjoyed a calm anchorage and caught up on sleep. This bay is known for being one of the few calm anchorages, plus we had the opportunity to ...
We left the Galapagos Islands for Marquesas Islands on March 4th 2026.The Galapagos are south of the Equator so now where officially sailing in the southern hemisphere. Luckily this passage was mostly ...
After 50 years of dreaming of coming to Galapagos, I've finally made it! Our Passage was rather more eventful than I was hoping. Our original Starlink finally died. Naturally we were in the middle of ...