If you’ve read the last few posts, you know that we have had a pretty special time in Suwarrow National Park in the Northern Cook Islands. The girls have been tasked with more writing projects lately and I was really pleased with the work they put into the recent posts. Thanks for all the very …
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Bird Island
By Elizabeth Vawter Bird Island is one of the many motus that surround the atoll of Suwarrow National Park in the Cook Islands of the South Pacific. This island has a cloud of birds that come there to nest every year. A rough estimate of the number of birds is five hundred thousand. We were …
A Reef Walk
By Adelaide Vawter (11 years old) Today in Suwarrow National Park, part of the Cook Islands and one of the most remote atolls in the world, we are going on a reef walk at 9:30 am. We determined that low tide was at 10:52am with our Navionics navigation software. It is important to go at …
French Polynesia to Suwarrow Passage – Day 6
Date: Sunday, September 30th 2018 Time: 17:00 UTC Location: 13°14.85′ S, 163°06.52′ W COG n/a SOG: 0 Distance to the Suwarrow: 0 nm 24hr Distance covered: 88 nm “LAND HO!” I heard hollered from just over my hatch, right after I had heard Cameron whisper to the girls to stay quiet so I could sleep. …
French Polynesia to Suwarrow Passage – Day 5
Date: Saturday, September 29th 2018 Time: 17:00 UTC Location: 13°33.29′ S, 161°38.37′ W COG 283° T SOG: 4.7 kts Distance to the Suwarrow: 88 nm 24hr Distance covered: 112 nm Cameron here .. Just 88 miles to go! We’ll probably be able to see Suwarrow before daybreak tomorrow. We’ll slow down as much as needed to …
French Polynesia to Suwarrow Passage – Day 4
Date: Friday, September 28th 2018 Time: 17:00 UTC Location: 14°03.14′ S, 159°47.75′ W COG 283° T SOG: 5.7 kts Distance to the Suwarrow: 201 nm 24hr Distance covered: 140 nm Cameron here. Yesterday afternoon our fishing dry steak came to an end. I was down stairs doing dishes when I heard that sweet scream of …
French Polynesia to Suwarrow Passage – Day 3
Date: Thursday, September 27th 2018 Time: 17:00 UTC Location: 14° 39.87 S, 158° 07.26 W COG 286° T SOG: 6.0 kts Distance to the Suwarrow: 304 nm 24hr Distance covered: 122 nm It is so mellow out here that we have been in anchorages more uncomfortable than this. Santa Barbara and La Cruz, MX come …
French Polynesia to Suwarrow Passage – Day 2
Date: Wednesday, September 26th 2018 Time: 17:00 UTC Location: 15* 40.8640 S, 155* 38.0181 W COG 286 T SOG: 5.0 kts Distance to the Suwarrow: 461 nm 24hr Distance covered: 119 nm The seas have settled and the winds are light. Banyan is still moving despite the sails flogging a bit more than we would …
French Polynesia to Suwarrow Passage, Day 1
Date: Friday, September 25th 2018 Time: 17:00 UTC Location: 16* 11.2 S, 153* 38.9 W COG: 280* SOG: 5.5 knots Distance to Suwarrow: 577nm 24 hr Distance covered: 136nm Passage making always leaves time for a little reflection. With our time in French Polynesia run out, it is time to get some miles under the …
Back to REAL Cruising
Whenever we are sitting in a city harbor, we don’t really feel like we are cruising. We feel like we are living in a small space where getting most things done is generally inconvenienced by that fact that we live on a small boat out at anchor. We met the families on SV Alondra and …