Red, blue and purple colours were thrown into the air. Orange and green were smeared across my face. Everybody was laughing and screaming as they ran around throwing dyed flour onto each other. ...Read More
Laughter was drifting along the breeze, the happiness of Christmas filled the air, echoing off the huge rugged mountains that surrounded us, cows and horses grazed freely on the land, while the chicke...Read More
We are sitting in cyclone limbo, whilst being consumed and sucked dry by mozzies. The flies are sending me nuts. Mozzies are slow and I can flatten the little suckers in the blink of an eye, flies tho...Read More
Finally after 5days of IV antibiodics, living off one pair of undies, consuming my excess fat for snacks and completely stressed out of my brains, we finally left The hospital. Both AK and slade would...Read More
Ak’s condition wasn’t getting any better but she wasn’t getting any worse. I waited all morning for slade to arrive with toilet paper. At 10am I recieved a sat phone message. The pie...Read More
Majuro is like a little ray of light. After battling it out in some very deprived islands, the marshalls offer a much needed rest. Once you arrive you can drop the pick for free next to the mooring fi...Read More
One last drama or two before we leave Majuro. Slade lost our backpack with all our passports and boat paper work in it ! Looks like we will be stuck here in Majuro as refugees. Man they just can’...Read More
Let me tell you about raising kids onboard and abroad. Firstly lets start with the wake up routine. The kids wake up and put on long sleeve shirts and long pants no matter how hot it is, they are then...Read More
What a disaster. Slade is on the radio, radioing all boats in Nanumea to find an alternator belt. So far we have been extremely unlucky, all our spare belts are a size to big. The belts are per...Read More
We saw the dreaded words on our weather forcast last night. Tropical cyclone. We want to leave our options open so by clearing out if the weather gets bad and the cyclone develops, then we can get the...Read More