Articles tagged with 'whale'

It was at around four this morning that the Tsunami warnings went off here in Tonga. Apparently this region of the Pacific received a meter high wave courtesy of the Chilean earth quake. For us here aboard Feelin' Good it was thankfully a non-event. Art has informed me that I slept through the whole thing, so I have no recollection of the tsunami's arrival. I will have no exciting...

After almost four months in the islands of French Polynesia we begin our passage to Tonga. Our plans are to make a number of stops along the way to break up the passage to be able to handle this with the crew we have on-board. This means we'll be doing 2-3 days passages at most before stopping and resting for a few days before moving on.

My cousin Murray and his girlfriend Cee came to visit for a while. Murray will be staying on doing the passage back to Europe while Cee just wanted to get some sunshine and sailing in as a respite from winter in the UK. We had a wonderful time cruising all around Antigua and were lucky enough to spot a humpback whale and dolphins. Another highlight was to be able to see some of the...

While sailing around Antigua today from Carisle Bay on our way to an anchorage in Nonsuch Bay on the east side of the island, Murray spotted a whale breaching up ahead of us. We quickly changed course and motored over to see if we could get close enough for some photos. Luckily this male "Humpback Whale](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/)Humpback_whale was not too worried about our little...