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THE JOURNEY |
Scorpio has now arrived in the Indian Ocean and is presently cruising in Thailand and Malaysia. (Click on the photo for a blow up of Scorpio on a beam reach, flying the mizzen stay sail) After several years in the Atlantic hemisphere we entered the Pacific Ocean in May 2005 following a transit of the Panama Canal. We then spent almost a year in Ecuador, South America, before we, in January 2006, started the crossing of this huge body of water, which covers one third of the Earth's surface. During our crossing of the Pacific we spent two months in the fabulous Galapagos Islands and several months in French Polynesia. From Bora Bora we sailed through the Cook Islands, where we visited Suwarow (made famous by hermit Tom Neale in his book "An Island to Oneself"), and to Apia in Western Samoa, former home of Robert Louis Stevenson. We then traveled south along the chain of islands of the Kingdom of Tonga before taking off on the leg to Opua in New Zealand. After 18 months in gorgeous New Zealand we sailed back to the Tropics, where we arrived in Fiji in May 2008. In September 2008 we sailed further west, to Vanuatu, a country of great scenery and wonderful people. Our crossing of the Pacific was completed when we finally reached Bundaberg in Australia in November - 3,5 years after our transit of the Panama Canal. Six months later, in May 2009, we rounded "the Top of Australia", Cape York, and entered the Indian Ocean. From Darwin we sailed to the fabled Spice Islands of the Banda Sea, and then spent 3 months cruising through Indonesia before arriving in Singapore in September 2009. From Singapore we sailed north, up the Malacca Strait along the shores of Malaysia and Thailand. Our "Blue Water Cruising" started 18 years ago, but we are still only half-ways around the globe. Our intention was never to do a circumnavigation, but we want to be where the sun is shining, the water is warm and the wind is blowing from behind. Now that the trade winds have taken us to our present location, there's no other sensible route back to Europe than continuing westwards, carefully timing our progress with the rhythm of the monsoons and trade winds. |
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Click on speaker and listen to Curly opening his morning show on the VHF in Savu Savu, Fiji.
Below are some photos from Sydney, Australia and Chesterfield Reef, New Caledonia: |
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Two famous landmarks (in the background) |
Caught by hand, Chesterfield Reef |
The route situation in June 2009 (click for blow up) |
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Scorpio anchored in the distance, the only yacht around. |
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Suomeksi - in Finnish - Lue purjehduksesta Kuubassa. |
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