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Plastic Jellyfish??

  Walking along a pristine white sand beach in New Caledonia, we came across this gorgeous green turtle washed up on shore – unfortunately dead. The locals speculated that the turtle mistook a plastic bag floating in the water as its favori…

Almost made it!

We are tied up to a mooring buoy just outside the Gaton locks. It took us a little over 3 hours to cross the Gaton lake and get to the buoy. We are now scheduled to pick up a new pilot at 1:30 tomorrow afternoon. We are trying to move this u…

MIRAFLORES LOCK

We are scheduled to be at the lock at 9:20 am central US time.

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Dugong Encounter

(Stock photo from the internet)New Caledonia is known for its population of dugongs – which is a walrus-like animal that looks like the manatees of Florida. Since arriving a month ago, we’ve kept our eyes pealed for the elusive animal. Finally we…

The Queen Mary

Well today we decided that we needed some exercise… And 8 miles and a couple of blisters later we arrived at The Queen Mary. Actually the walk was really nice. We hiked along the ocean the majority of the time, and enjoyed a clear blue sky, a cool br…

We visited The Queen Mary in Long Beach today

I don’t know if you call this riding shot gun or not?

Life boats on The Queen Mary

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Bill on The Queen Mary