Articles tagged with 'wildlife'

One of the most beautiful anchorages around. Search for Opunohu Bay and you'll come up with lots of people talking about how wonderful this place is. We add our support for it being one of most unique and beautiful places we've been.

The title of this post is just a tease into the real issues of planning a visit to the Galápagos Islands. Yes, there are problems to overcome, selection of an agency to assist in navigating the mindless governmental regulations, fueling regulations and exaggerated Eco issues to deal with but... it can be done.

Hiria, a sun-stained fifty-ish fellow of slight build, yet powerfully muscular arms, chats casually with Andrea, their conversation centered around the highly specialized speedboat Hiria is currently piloting. They converse in a jumble of French, English and local Polynesian dialect as the boat throttles full bore over the waves, it's deep-V hull slicing and dicing the sea without...

Another spectacular place to anchor just inside the pass. We didn't know how lucky we were when we arrived at 06:00 and found the pass quiet with a 1.4 kt current. A few hours later it was standing waves 2 meters high with the incoming swell battling against the outgoing current as this massive lagoon tried to empty itself. The tide tables can not predict when the tides will be with...

Galápagos, the name is familiar to hundreds of millions, perhaps even billions of this planet's inhabitants. Indeed, pretty much anyone you ask could tell you something they feel they know about this place, something they read, were taught in school, or saw in a wildlife documentary. It's one of those odd kind of places though, a place that everyone seems to be familiar with but very...

The last day of our passage from Columbia was an exhausting, seemingly never ending trudge for everyone, yet already it feels like a long time ago. The following day we awoke in a tropical paradise, surrounded by a festive party of impossibly pretty islands, each dressed in a petticoat of pure white sand, crowned with coco-palms and all dancing on a sea of turquoise. These are the...

We keep coming back here year after year as one of our favorite places to anchor in Antigua. It's about 3 nm west of Falmouth Harbour and well protected from easterly winds and swell. If the winds and swell are from the southeast then you need to anchor deeper into the bay.

Our summer sailing season started later in June after the crew had a well-deserved rest from our participation in the Loro Piana Superyacht Regatta in Porto Cervo, Sardegna. As our crew are all from Italy, naturally they wanted to show off their country to us and we were excited to see it through their eyes.