Of the Drinking Kind you understand Around the year 1870 there were many ships here in Baie de Carenage being loaded with chromium and cobalt. The chromium was washed upstream and brought down to the waiting ships at the quay on a little Decauville railway. While scrambling ashore at this old quay for one of …

Noumea Aquarium and a Bohemian Beer This is the last of my decablogs for you, the tenth for which you already have the photos before I can start on our current adventure, which I have been looking forward to because it is all to do with life on Zoonie, so here we go.. A walk …

Sliding south down the Tropics After the excitement of seeing the young humpback breach alongside us just a few metres away, Zoonie settled into her groove with her full headsail a taut wind filled curve and her kerchief of mainsail supporting her from behind the mast. The wind was a generous 22 knots at first …

Doroline’s Dream A young girl was travelling with her mom, who in accordance with tradition had moved from her birthplace at Craig Cove on Ambrym to marry her husband from Malakula, and father from their home on the mid-western island of Malakula, to Port Vila the capital of the Archipelago on the island of Efate …

Zoonie’s Good Effort to Efate During the waiting hours before we set off at 5.00pm we busied our minds on small chores to help the time pass and just before we left I was playing the Wordscapes Game on my phone when are rather worrying set of words started to real themselves. I will let …

Dear Readers, Thank you for your patience. Rob and I aboard Zoonie are now back in England and so I am bringing the text of our blog up to date as soon as I can for you. However as I am using my phone as a hotspot at the moment I cannot bring you the …