December 7 2009 Merry Christmas to all of you that have followed us this year and also to those of you just joining us. We are missing Special Blend, but are enjoying our Family and friends here in Florida. Martha —————————————————————————————————————- October 29, 2009 Admiral’s View # 4 I love this area. The Brisbane River […]
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November 3, 2009 Special Blend is now on the hardstand at Scarborough Marina in Australia. Jim and I will be on a plane tomorrow morning, making a stop in Hawaii to lay his Mother to rest in the National Cemetery in Honolulu with his Dad. On Nov 8th we will head to central Florida. We plan
October 31, 2009 I’m not sure that we’ll ever get this done before it’s time to leave. The entire boat has been wiped down in and out. We found out we can only have 1 checked bag each on our Sydney to Hawaii leg. It will cost $250. for each extra bag. We are not
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October 29, 2009 24 Hrs to Brisbane Well, we are almost back to where we started the season. The passage started really rough , but overall has been very pleasant. No fish because I didn’t put a line out…it’s kinda like my mind has flipped over to all the stuff to do when I get
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September 30, 2009 It sure is an eye opener to have an early morning wakeup call that a tsunami is heading your way. Got our attention, thank goodness it all ended well. This place is beautiful an atoll, several islands linked by bridges, and MILES of white sand beach. Reminds us of the Tumotos a
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September 5, 2009 Pentecost Island We are in Bwantnapne Bay 15* 39′.782S/168*07′.075E, we dropped anchor and went to shore. There to greet us, was Allen Burle’s grandaughter with our boat card in hand from last year. She was just a smilin’ looking at the card and then us. Chief Allen was so thrilled to see
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August 17, 2009 Wind is still kicking up a bit, but somehow these flies have learned to navigate in 25kt wind. It has been a rock and roll anchorage everywhere we have been for the last week. At the moment we only have a one day weather window and not sure if we want to
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August 4, 2009 We came back to Luganville to check out, all is OK with David and we got the money back. Tomorrow am we are going to the fuel dock, fill up and head North. Hopefully weather will hold for us. Today has been a nice day, but no time to really enjoy it…….tomorrow.
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July 29, 2009 Barnacle Chronicle #6 Tonight we went to the Aore Resort’s Independence celebration. Tomorrow is Vanuatu’s Independence Day. So tonight the restaurant was having a buffet, music, and custom dancing. Well we all had warned Dane that they might not be wearing many clothes. We were not sure if they came from a Big
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July 28, 2009 Barnacle Chronicle #5 Dixon’s Reef Yesterday was like being in an episode of the show “LOST”. I woke up after wondering if I was still alive and my body was hurting like I had been in a plane crash. It was only an 18 hour passage, but it felt like forever. I
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