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- July 18, 2008by svmooseThis time Duncan is away and Ingrid, my niece in Holland, asked me, “what do you do now you are alone in Malaysia?”. All sorts of things. First of all, getting rid of animals! I had to get rid of the biggest spider (well, in my eyes, he/she was big enough :-) the first day Duncan was gone. I came...
- May 06, 2008by svmooseKakado National Park butts up against the southern coast of the Van Dieman Gulf in northern Australia and is probably the only way a person would ever get to see this wild and dangerous area. Yachts rarely if ever visit the rivers that debouch into it: the evocative East, South and West Alligators...
- April 15, 2008by svmoose23 October 2004 About three days out of Tonga, on the way to New Zealand, there is a very strange bit of land, if you can even call it land, because at high-tide most of it is awash. Minerva Reef is an atoll without topsoil or vegetation. It has a pass to its interior lagoon, which is thirty feet...
- April 12, 2008by svmooseWe stopped in Bawean island, halfway between Bali and Kalimantan. It had a very protected anchorage and we could do with a good night sleep. Calm it was, but we were still in Ramadan time and the mosques were going at full tilt… We went on shore to stretch our legs and saw all the men (and boys)...
- April 04, 2008by svmooseThe Galapagos, my enchanted islands I always wanted to go to the Galapagos, and all of a sudden we were 25 miles off the coast of San Cristobal. I could not believe it! We had left Costa Rica 6 days earlier to find a mixed bag of weather: no wind, contrary winds and even a day of sailable wind.......
- April 04, 2008by svmoose24th Mar 2004 The Panama Canal Once we’d received our boat identification number from the Panama Canal Authority we knew we’d cleared the last hurdle of a Byzantine bureaucracy. We would at some point transit the canal and sail into the pacific. Thursday! Thursday would be the day. Be ready to...
- April 02, 2008by svmooseCatch a medium sized wahoo. Filet same removing all bloodline flesh Rub both sides of servings with good quality olive oil Dredge in oregano Blacken in 1/4" smoking hot olive oil, don't even think about overcooking rice, couscous, potatoes or pasta are all possibilities, but copious amounts of...
- April 02, 2008by svmooseThe Galapagos, my enchanted islands I always wanted to go to the Galapagos, and all of a sudden we were 25 miles off the coast of San Cristobal. I could not believe it! We had left Costa Rica 6 days earlier to find a mixed bag of weather: no wind, contrary winds and even a day of sailable wind.......
- April 02, 2008by svmooseThe story of our visit to Palmerston Atoll was published in SAIL magazine in April, 2006. This piece is the unedited form. Palmerston atoll It had been a long six days out of Bora Bora. The wind had been like baby’s breath and the roll of the seas frequently threw even that out of the sails....
- March 29, 2008by svmooseThe Burnett River is a big slow-moving sort of river, turbid from eons of moving silt up and down. Where the Moose is anchored, eight miles up from the sea, the direction changes twice a day as the tide comes in and then ebbs. At high water the mangroves are fully awash and at low the muddy...
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