Friday 26 June 2015
In the midst of our worries from Tom falling ill, it was a very pleasant surprise to learn that we have been nominated for Sailing Today’s ‘Sailor of the Year’ Award for our work in the aftermath of Cyclone Pam. We certainly didn’t expect this and using Adina to help the people in Vanuatu was…
Thursday 25 June 2015
Tom suffered a severe infection last week whilst we were in the Morova Lagoon area of the Solomon Islands. Following initial assessment in Gizo Hospital and input from doctors overseas we have left Adina and flown to Brisbane, Australia, for him to have some further tests and checks. Unfortunately there are concerns that the infection…
Wednesday 17 June 2015
Having left the comfort of the Florida Islands with Jonny Ruka and his lovely family, we headed 65 miles north-west to the Russell Islands. En-route we landed a good-sized Barracuda. Barracuda have a reputation for carrying the fish poisoning ciguatera, although the Solomon Islands is meant to be ciguatera free. We elected to keep it…
Monday 15 June 2015
We had not planned on visiting the Florida Islands, a small group of islands that sit just off Honiara, the capital of the Solomon Islands. They’d had some bad press for demanding high anchorage fees from yachts, presenting lists of goodies requested to be brought to the chief and even petty robberies. But again and…
Thursday 11 June 2015
Adina set sail from Vanuatu, destination the island of Nende in the Solomon Islands. The trade winds were blowing and for once blowing from the right direction for us; Adina relished it, clocking up speeds we’d never seen before. A 167nm trip, we’d planned our arrival for around 8 to 9am. Come 2am we were…
Thursday 4 June 2015
As Adina proceeded on her way sailing north in Vanuatu we received a lovely e-mail from Larbert Village Primary School in Scotland saying how they had been studying natural disasters and the devastation caused by Cyclone Pam and had used our blog to bring it all to life. Naturally we were delighted to hear that…
Monday 1 June 2015
So after having done our small bit helping in the aftermath of Cyclone Pam, Adina headed north and slowly but surely sailed out of the area impacted by the cyclone. The green lush islands we knew so well returned, people came out with fruit and vegetables to trade. Vanuatu has to be the most fertile…