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Four relaxing days at sea. Then we arrived at Hilo, the main town on the “Big Island” of Hawaii. This volcano, Mauna Kea, is now inactive. Hard to believe from this view it is 14,000 feet, plus more than 20,000 … Continue reading →

For those enjoying the photos I have just posted updates to the postings for the last four ports … Papeete, Huahine, Rangiroa, Nuku Hiva … … love this free wi-fi in Starbucks in Hilo, Hawaii … visited the volcanoes this morning … … Continue reading →

… is the main island in the Marquesas about 1000km north of Tahiti. It’s different again … a kind of dark and forbidding looking place: very dark green sea, dark chocolate brown sand (where there is any), high and steep … Continue reading →

Rangiroa is completely unlike our other stops in French Polynesia. It is a vast rugby ball shaped atoll 20km wide and 80km long. We anchored at the entrance to the lagoon on one side, and the other side was mostly … Continue reading →

Huahine is quiet and impossibly beautiful … It has a small population of about 6000, a tiny airport for domestic flights, a narrow and hazardous entrance to it’s harbour suitable only for small ships to anchor, and hence not many … Continue reading →

Papeete is the bustling capital city of French Polynesia on the main island, Tahiti. We actually sailed the 18km or so from Mo’orea to Papeete at 3 in the afternoon and arrived in Papeete at dusk. Next morning the Papeete … Continue reading →

Mo’orea is bigger than Bora Bora, and the island itself is prettier. It just doesn’t have the fabulous lagoon. We approached in the early morning, past the reef in beautiful calm conditions.    The sun came up, and here we … Continue reading →

… would be a finalist in any competition to judge the most beautiful island in the world … a massive central mountain surrounded completely by a fringing reef enclosing a spectacular lagoon … We appraoched before sunrise … …wind and … Continue reading →

First day, Raiatia and it’s twin island of Taha’a … rain and a huge surf breaking on the fringing reef of Taha’a welcomed us … it was something of an indication of the day to come … sunny breaks between heavy … Continue reading →

What a contrast. Samoa is as steep and covered in dense jungle, as Tonga is grassy and flat with coconut palms. We crept into beautiful little Paga Pago harbour before sunrise. Parked right in town, surrounded by a substantial fishing … Continue reading →