Some South Pacific Islands 08:54.97S 140:05.98W 17th July 2016 Baie de Taiohae, Nuku Hiva Rob counted six magical temporary waterfalls cascading down from the Plateau atop this island after the deluge we had earlier, all clearly visible from Zoonie. It has turned the water around us into red/brown muddy streaks. We won’t be making water …

03:05.70S 095:53.95W Whale watching breakfasts and the Diva’s Return. The Early South Pacific. Sailing south of the Galapagos the ocean is alive with life. The only tropical  (Waved) albatross and swallow tailed gulls swing by us and two types of tiny petrels, Elliots and the White Vented, with its white chevron from wings to tail …

Back on the Briny, South Pacific 14th June 2016 Concerned that the earthquakes would have changed the riverbed contours we hired Ariosto to guide us back to the mouth of the Chone river past damaged skyscrapers, but looking at the end route as it appeared on the chartplotter we need not have done. Just moments …

Return to Chaos 00:36.38S 80:25.312W Last Days in Bahia. Our coach bounced along the rice road in a westerly direction from Guayaquil, people sitting at the side of the road beside piles of various sizes of sacked rice tagged with prices written on cards. There was little evidence of the earthquakes here. A film was …

Back home in the UK with family and friends for May 2016 England was greening with new spring growth when we started our drive south from Heathrow to Dorset and my side of our family. Henry and Ruby were getting ready for bed and Emily hadn’t told them we were coming so they would have …

Machu Picchu 13:26.60S 72:44.85W 1st camp @ 9000ft 27th April. We drove through Andean Peru as it awakened to another bright sunny day of toil. Shiny clean, uniformed school children rushed down to the main road from their farm homes to catch the school bus, as their grandmothers, tall hatted in their thick, knee length …

Leaving Lima for Cuzco 26 Apr 2016 12:12.18S 77:10.44W. The case of the lost handbag and Lost Portaloos Hotel We were herded, like a sack load of jungle frogs, into the departure lounge of Lima Airport bound for Cuzco, no room to move but a good opportunity for a chat with Wendy and Peter from …

On the Road to Guayaquil 12th April 2016 Yesterday we left hot & humid Bahia in a Reina Del Camino, Queen of the Road coach passing donkeys grazing the roadside towards Guayaquil. Cattle grazed in fields, each with their single white egret companion.  Plump horses and more private car ownership suggested a more affluent population …

Zoonie Crosses the Equator 02:00.36N 80:12.91W Nearing the thin blue line, Neptune’s Parlour Happy Easter Everyone! The Equator is only 120 miles ahead of us and one of the presents we will send Neptune is the shackle Rob sawed off the end of the anchor, linking it to the chain so we can re-feed it …

Waiting for the Blue 8:37.4N 79:01.8W V formations of cormorants and pelicans move purposefully across the sky, sometimes there are the two types in the same formation, led by Mr Pelican. We creep from our anchorage at 06.32am leaving behind oily brown water filled with manmade and natural detritus, pass the last anchored ships, Top …