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South Australia- Ceduna to Coffin Bay

During the night at St Francis Island, the wind turned to the NE and made the bay very lumpy and sleep was not easy!
The 30nm to Cedunna was pleasant although the southerly wind had increased throughout the trip to 30knts, but no seas as we had protect…

Where are we?

On our Prince William
Sound trip this summer, we started keeping a live, map-based travel log. We posted
updates several times a day during the offshore run there and bac…

Blue Mountains with Old Friends

After a week of city life, we escaped to the Blue Mountains with our good friends, the Giffords. Totem and Oso together again!We first met Jamie and Behan Gifford and their three wonderful kids (Niall – 12, Marin – 9, and Siobhan – 7) in Monter…

Road trip to Sargento

We took a drive south through the desert to Sargento with friends from Lilipad and Boundless Grace. We ate a tasty lunch and visited with a farmer on his acreage. He had a field of squash that he was very proud of. The cactus trees where very impressiv…

More sea Lion photos

We had so much fun at Los Islotes with the sea lions. These pictures where taken by our friend Lili on Lilipad, a Nordhavn 55. Her shutter finger  wasn’t quite quick enough to get Bills attempt at a costume malfunction though, which spared you all…

Bill swam with dolphins

While we where swimming with the whale sharks a few dolphin emerged. Bill got within a couple of feet of them and they where very curious and interested in him. As you can see I was very, very excited also… They’re graceful animals and can swim so fa…

whale sharks!!!

We swam with the whale sharks again, and again it was amazing!!! They are so big.

Good times with The Robertson’s

We had a couple of fun days with John and Vicki Robertson. They joined us in La Paz and we attempted to anchor out. Unfortunately the seas didn’t cooperate and we turned around and went back in to the marina. Hopeful for calmer seas in the future… &n…

Dolphins on the bow

These dolphins surfed in our wake and played at the bow for over an hour as we cruised back to the marina. They are amazing! You can see as they push off on the bulbous bow, it’s unbelievable how they glide along the bow.

Los Islotes

Swimming with the Los Islotes Sea lions. Los Islotes is located .5 miles off the NW tip of Isla Partida. We snorkeled with the sea lions. As you can see this big male bull was not happy with Bill. The bark and carry on when you get to close. We anchore…