Sunday 30 November 2014
Erromango in south Vanuatu is probably one of the least travelled islands in the country. This is simply because it doesn’t hold any big flashing light attractions, but for yachties who stop it’s one of the favourites as it offers a nice bay with good holding next to a village of friendly locals and is…
Sunday 30 November 2014
Tanna and village life Vanuatu consists of approximately 83 islands spread over 555 kilometres. While we might not be able to explore all of them, we’re certainly going to give it our best shot! Our first stop was the island of Tanna, famed for its Mount Yasur volcano which is rumoured to be as close…
Tuesday 18 November 2014
Adina is now in Dillon’s Bay on the island of Erromango in Vanuatu. We’ve had a fabulous stay and loved the local village. But move on we must, so we will up anchor 5pm Wednesday (6am UK time) and set sail on our final passage before stopping in Port Vila, Vanuatu for the cyclone season….
Monday 10 November 2014
When sailing offshore in the big open seas you’re always looking for a so-called ‘weather window’, a slot where conditions are good to go. Most of the time these windows do not and will not coincide with your nicely worked out itinerary and you sit around waiting. Arriving into Vuda Point Marina in Fiji it…
Monday 10 November 2014
The Lau Islands in eastern Fiji are rumoured to be a blast to the past, a group of islands where traditions are still upheld and the modern world is shunned. Sailors coming from the east, as we did, have to sail right past them when arriving in Fiji as customs have no check-in points in…
Tuesday 4 November 2014
So Adina is all set to leave lovely Fiji and head for Vanuatu. The last two weeks we’ve been exploring the more remote Northern Lau in the east and then had a brief stop in the well travelled Yasawa Islands in the west using Musket Cove as our base. For the last few days we’ve…
Sunday 2 November 2014
Getting a strong feeling our feet were slowly but surely sinking into the comfortable mud of the Savusavu creek, we decided the weather looked good enough and we needed to head off before we became citizens of Savusavu with its lovely people. Destination Fawn Harbour, a seven hour sail away to the east. Well, make…