tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20752142401353553282024-03-12T19:55:18.532-07:00Our JourneyOur Journeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09884830842986533497noreply@blogger.comBlogger169125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2075214240135355328.post-40486922672052387692019-06-30T19:48:00.000-07:002022-11-21T13:45:33.231-08:00Our Rose SOLD<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: red;">We will update the blog shortly, </span></h2>
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<span style="color: red;">Our Rose is now sold and on a new Journey</span></h2>
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Our Journeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09884830842986533497noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2075214240135355328.post-56734606666719163552018-11-11T20:25:00.000-08:002018-11-12T20:30:42.934-08:00Christmas Kiwi Greetings from Richard and Jen 2018<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Early seasons
greetings to you… we hope your year has been one of happiness and prosperity.</div>
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<span lang="EN-US">From our end, we
have been somewhat remiss in our correspondence over the last year (if not 2!),
however, we can reassure you we are alive and well and continue to live life to
the max!</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Our travels over
2017 and 2018 saw us continue our sailing journey aboard “Our Rose” from the
East Coast of Australia, up to Thursday Island, across Indonesia Archipelagos,
and up the west coast of Malaysia and Thailand.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Highlights of
these areas were:</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">*New Years and Australia Day on Sydney Harbor</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">*5 week land
trip to New Zealand (1<sup>st</sup> time in 5 years)</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">*Helping with
stricken monohull s/v Balikcil across the Indonesia Islands, involving 7 boats
(amazing comradeship!)</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">*A month’s scuba
diving in the amazing Komodo Marine Park (world class)</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">*Exploring the
Hongs in Thailand (huge natural Island Caves)</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">*Enjoying the
Islands of Koh Phayam (Hippyville) and the Similan & Surin Islands for more
diving</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">*Having Julie
& Martin, then Anne and Neil join us on Our Rose, and meeting up with Hils
and Doug in Malaysia and meeting up with Matt and Jono in KL.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">We also enjoying
quite a bit of land travel during the Monsoon season (March – November), Hanoi,
Siem Reap, Cameron Highlands, Penang, KL and Jen did a trip to Port Douglas to
spend some time with our dear friends Julie and Martin.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The
Future???<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>well, we have been
invited to help with a Boutique Ski Lodge in Madarao Japan over the coming
winter season.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As we have not seen
a winter for 6 years and love skiing, we decided to say Yes!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So we will be in the best snow area of
Japan (10 – 13 meters average snow fall) from December to March.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Look up <a href="http://firsttracksmadarao.lodgify.com/">http://firsttracksmadarao.lodgify.com</a></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">As for “Our
Rose”, she is in the capable hands of a broker and yacht care company in Rebak
Marina during this time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As much
as we love and will miss her, we hope she sells so we can continue our land
travel journey in 2019.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The Boys… as
mentioned, we met Matt and Jono in KL during the year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Matt was on his way from New Zealand to
Scotland, utilizing the opportunity to work in the UK<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>for Kiwis under age of 31.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He is now working at a science museum in Glasgow and also
continues to enjoy his passion of swing and blues dancing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jono has been travelling and working in
Vietnam since early 2017 and has qualified with TEFL as a foreign language (English)
teacher and is now based in Bangkok.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We are very proud of them both.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">So,
that’s it from us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We hope you
have an amazing Christmas and New Year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Maybe see you in Japan!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Keep in touch; love to hear all your news</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">A
few pics of Our Journey in 2017/2018 (in no particular order)…</span><br />
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Hils had said she wanted to "run away" for her special birthday,</div>
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We all met in Penang, where we had her birthday...</div>
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A beautiful "Little Black Dress" tailormade was her birthday present from Doug</div>
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Of course no Little Black Dress is complete without the right shoes,</div>
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The finished product, ready on Hils Birthday...</div>
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Hils birthday dinner was delicious...</div>
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Lots of sightseeing in Penang...</div>
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After a wonderful time in Cambodia it was back to Our Rose...</div>
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Richards 60th birthday was had in style on Our Rose, with a beautiful 4 course meal</div>
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Heading back to Richard and Our Rose, </div>
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Our Journeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09884830842986533497noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2075214240135355328.post-47820069940067813952018-04-02T19:42:00.000-07:002018-08-03T20:24:40.872-07:00Cambodia<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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With Our Rose safe and sound in Rebak Marina,</div>
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we headed to Siem Reap, Cambodia for a month before Richards Birthday</div>
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We stayed at "Greenleaf Boutique Hotel" a non-profit Hotel, </div>
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who install water wells in very poor areas and help build schools.</div>
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Doing Yoga most mornings, being introduced to (and absolutely loving) Nia Dance,</div>
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and exploring the amazing temples and learning the history was fantastic...</div>
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The <a href="https://greenleafboutiquehotel.com/">Greenleaf</a> Boutique Hotel...</div>
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Mr Lin - the Manager (and his team) looked after us amazingly...</div>
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During our time there we met some really fabulous guests also... cheers Sarah</div>
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We were taken to a lovely spot for a cooking class...</div>
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lovely gardens reaching out toward the rice paddies</div>
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We were to experience yet another New Year - this one being Khmer New Year...</div>
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it was going to get "very" loud...</div>
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with dozens of speakers like this set up all down "Pub Street"</div>
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The children loved it - getting into the swing of things for three days, </div>
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everywhere we went we were shot with water guns...</div>
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We were so thrilled that Jono decided to come and see us while we were there...</div>
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We went and saw the <a href="https://pharecircus.org/">Phare</a> Circus which was incredible.</div>
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All performers, musicians, artists etc have come from homeless, abusive backgrounds, drug addicts and have turned their lives around, continuing to educate and help others</div>
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Yes, she shoots the bow and arrow with her feet and hit the target...</div>
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Another hotel had asked the Phare artists to come and paint a mural on one of his walls,</div>
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He put on a wine and food evening, and we went and watched the mural being painted,</div>
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it took a mere 3 hours and was incredible (all proceeds from the evening went to Phare)...</div>
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The first picture is when we arrived and they had been going less than an hour,</div>
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The second is the finished product</div>
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We certainly see some interesting signs and street art on our travels...</div>
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Land Mines are still a huge problem in Cambodia,</div>
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we went and saw the Dog Detection, </div>
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and also Mine Rats...</div>
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Check out the size of the rat in the picture below...</div>
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Of course Siem Reap wouldnt be complete without seeing temples...</div>
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We were anchored and saw all the fishing fleets heading in,</div>
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Our Journeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09884830842986533497noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2075214240135355328.post-52294567664737903942018-01-27T19:30:00.000-08:002018-08-03T19:30:53.481-07:00Matthew and Liu's wedding ...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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While at Port Takola Marina, Krabi, we were invited to the owner </div>
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Matthew and Liu's Wedding Reception - what a wonderful experience. </div>
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Kathy and Jeremy were also able to join us and what a fabulous time we all had...</div>
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Our Journeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09884830842986533497noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2075214240135355328.post-59306362099560474062017-11-20T22:36:00.002-08:002017-11-20T22:36:41.389-08:00Lombok, Bali, Singapore, Malaysia...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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There was to be a Funeral Procession for 3 members of the Royal Family - Suryas village were asked to make the food for the event, also Ketut, Suryas Dad was heavily involved in the ceremony itself - what an amazing experience to witness this...</div>
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The horses are built and mounted on huge bamboo carrying frames.</div>
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The streets are closed and they are carried by many men from the village, to the burial site</div>
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The top of the back of the horse is "cut out" and offerings are placed inside the horse, along with the remains of the person, until it is full,</div>
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It is a really huge occasion, as there are three of the horses, remains, offerings, blessings...</div>
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When they have been filled and blessed by the holyman, they are then lit and their journey to heaven is aided by the horse to take them there...</div>
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It was truly something very special to witness.</div>
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Nogal and Dragonfly had also come to Ubud and stayed in an incredible Villa Complex</div>
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inviting us all over for a evening was very generous and wonderful to experience their special piece of Ubud</div>
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We swam, drank, eat and were entertained with a show - thank you so much to Nogal and Dragonfly</div>
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It was JPh's 70th birthday, and we had lots of fun with the children from Nogal, Wakanui and Dragonfly on Our Rose making balloon hats for everyone.</div>
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They also decorated JP's birthday cake... and they did the most amazing job!</div>
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It is a timeline of his life, from left to right</div>
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"French Flag, JPh and Christine, JPh & Christine and their 2 children</div>
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JPh & Christine and their 2 children and their grandchildren,</div>
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then finally in the middle their beautiful yacht</div>
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and the candles in the shape of 70</div>
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The birthday celebrations that night were a lot of fun</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The hat the children made for JPh was in French colors and the largest...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">the children explaining the timeline on the cake</td></tr>
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We then made our way to Puteri Marina,<br />
leaving Our Rose and heading to Singapore for a few days...<br />
WHAT A CULTURE SHOCK, after Indonesia!<br />
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Back to Our Rose again, and what do we find at Pureri Marina...<br />
A New Zealand Restaurant - it was frequented rather well by us all!<br />
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From here it was off to Pangkor Marina.<br />
On a rainy Sunday, what better thing to do<br />
than have Harvey from Wakanui come over and make Peach and Apple Turnovers...<br />
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followed by his sister Melia, who made beautiful Apple Roses<br />
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Darryl, Jim and Us headed off to Penang for a week.<br />
Richard and I both had extensive medical checks done while in Penang,<br />
including ECG's, Chest Xrays, Abdominal Scans,<br />
many blood/urine tests as a general total all over health check - total cost... $200NZ<br />
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We really enjoy Penang, fabulous food, great walks, temples, and being a World Heritage Site the architecture and history is amazing, as is the street art!..<br />
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Our Journeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09884830842986533497noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2075214240135355328.post-2078130076063102092017-09-13T03:54:00.001-07:002017-09-13T15:19:53.226-07:00So Much Has Happened...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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So much has happened since the last entry, that I will break this post down into categories...</div>
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Balikcil Family... Diving... and Everything Else thats happened.</div>
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<b>Balikcil Family...</b></div>
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Our friends who lost their rudder coming over from Australia were rescued by </div>
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Daryl - Vimy and crew, Frank - Nogal and crew and Fiddler VI and crew,</div>
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this was achieved in awful conditions of over 50 knots, </div>
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with them being safely brought into Debut (as mentioned in my last post).</div>
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This was to be the beginning of a journey that took us just under 900nm with Balikcil</div>
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along with Vimy, Nogal and Auntie to get Balikcil to a port </div>
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where they could have their new rudder sent from France. </div>
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Due to us being in such remote areas, this would end up being </div>
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Lebuan Bejo (near Komodo National Park).</div>
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The trip meant that we did not ever allow Balikcil out of visual sight,</div>
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Richard diving to recover their bowprod in over 30 metres of water,</div>
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diving to release them from rope from a fishing net,</div>
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going onboard with Mustafa for a 2 day trip to help get the steering organised and Elif coming sailing with me overnight on Our Rose.</div>
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Along with this, we also had a lot of fun with what we now fondly call the "Balikcil Family"</div>
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Elif & Mustafa - Balikcil, Daryl & John - Vimy, Frank, Marilia, Julia & Sophia - Nogal & Eve Auntie</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">As we arrive Lebuan Bajo with the drogues behind Balikcil</td></tr>
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Finally the rudder installation...</div>
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Julia and Sophia did a beautiful job of decorating the Rudder Party cake I made...</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Elif and Mustafa - so happy at the Rudder Party</td></tr>
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While waiting for the rudder, and after installation it was time for some serious diving - being in the Komodo area - one of the top 5 dive areas in the world...</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">John helped us fill I dont know how many bottles over the time</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Julia and Sophias first dive off Our Rose once being certified - awesome!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">my one and only dive - hurting my ears...<br />
so I became the "dive boat" taking everyone to the dive site, dropping off and collecting on Our Rose</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Frank is right into his underwater photography</td></tr>
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<b> </b>End of July and that time comes around again very quickly - my birthday...</div>
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I was serenaded awake by Eve, Daryl and John (Auntie and Vimy)</div>
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Brought over this lovely happy birthday from Julia, Sophia and Marila - Nogal</div>
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I then cooked all day, making NZ Lamb Racks, Pavlova and other lovely food to enjoy with</div>
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Vimy, Nogal, Balikcil and Auntie for my birthday...</div>
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(sadly the photos of everyone were blurred - nothing to do with birthday cheer hahaha)</div>
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Most of our days when at anchor, we are woken with the call to prayer...</div>
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Muslim is a strong religion here in Indonesia, along with Catholic.</div>
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Banda, the original spice islands, we went on a lovely tour of the spice island</div>
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seeing these gorgeous children getting the water for their homes from the well</div>
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Of course we had to do a cooking course</div>
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and this is what was made... YUM</div>
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At Hoga Island - a very very deep anchorage, we sheared the pin on our windlass</div>
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So, our friends all came over, a temporary fixit was a success</div>
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until Franks nephew arrived from America with our replacement part...</div>
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While at Hoga Island, Julia and Sophia wanted to help "clean up"</div>
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so enlisted us all for a clean up morning</div>
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We have had such beautiful scenery, people and sunsets...</div>
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(dive guru Frank - Nogal organised to live aboard for 2 weeks while in Komodo)</div>
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We joined the Wonderful Sail 2 Indonesia Rally</div>
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which means that our paperwork for Indonesia is assisted with</div>
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(It has been the most difficult paperwork to deal with in all our travels!)</div>
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(There are 68 boats on this rally)</div>
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We left Hope/Thursday Island for the journey which took us 5 days, </div>
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slowing ourselves down to ensure arrival in daylight.</div>
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We were very lucky, as many boats encounted lots of problems on the way here.</div>
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There were more fishing boats and nets than we have seen anywhere - a number of boats got tangled in nets, one boat lost their rudder.</div>
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We had 3 "hitchhikers" along the way, staying for a couple of days</div>
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On arrival, customs and Immigration were brought out to Our Rose by long boat</div>
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Recollection of our passports was completed ashore...</div>
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As you can see by all the smiles, everybody is incredibly friendly.</div>
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The town of Debut do not get tourists, so we are a real novelty!</div>
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S/V Sedna, S/V Chase The Cat and us decided to go touring so we organised a driver along with a English Speaking Guide (fondly known to us now as Captain Ron).</div>
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Cost for 6 hours for taxi and Captain Ron was the equivalent of $45 total!</div>
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The children so excited to see us</div>
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Had a look at boatbuilding - they use 3 tools to build a boat!</div>
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Beautiful Cave Pools...</div>
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On the way to a beautiful lookout walk, this village was completing this for a religious ceremony</div>
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Here there are two prominent religions (that live in harmony together!)</div>
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On the way to the lookout the church</div>
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A beautiful beach, where we had dozens of people run up to us and want a photograph with us</div>
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The local children were "valet parking" for our dinghys</div>
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Richard speaking indonesian to the class</div>
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This was one of the english lessons they do...</div>
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(My favourite song!)</div>
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These fishing structures are our amazing - out at sea they are very hard to see, as they are not well lit</div>
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We were so thrilled this morning and went out to greet the "rudderless yacht"</div>
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finally arrived after being rescued by other cruisers</div>
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Sunrise at Scarborough Marina.</div>
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A tribute walkway to the Beegees, having come from this area</div>
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Waiting for a weather window to head north from Scarborough Marina was taking longer than expected, so we hired a car and headed up to see Carola and Jim (Koza) and Fay and Phil (Jigsaw)</div>
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We had had so much fun coming down through the Pacific with them </div>
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and it was yet again time for goodbyes... we will miss them as we travel on.</div>
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Middle Percy Island...</div>
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where there was a structure built for the cruisers to use, </div>
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with flags and parafanaleia from all over the world,</div>
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There was a lovely walk up to the original homestead, where they had put sayings along the way attached to trees...</div>
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At the time of arriving here, it was only about a month after the Cyclone and you could see it had hit some of the islands with a vengeance.</div>
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The damage from the cyclone very evident...</div>
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The views at the top were spectacular</div>
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Spectacular sunset at Airlie Beach...</div>
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Anchored off Mantes Resort Cape Glouchesr it was time for more goodbyes...</div>
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Another sad goodbye to Sea Adler... It was a delight meeting you all...</div>
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Arriving at Magnetic Island we were struck by how the island is made up of boulders</div>
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We went on some really lovely walks here, being lucky enough to see Koala in the wild</div>
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We made a day stop at Zoe Bay, and walked to the waterfall...</div>
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Heading to Bluewater Marina just north of Cairns it was time to reprovision before heading to Indonesia and sadly we also had to get a new outboard our Yamaha having corroded with a cracked block from the inside out. Considering this was flushed regularly we were pretty disappointed!</div>
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It was the longest we had ever been away from Our Rose,</div>
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We left her on a swing mooring with Cammaray Marina (<a href="http://www.cammaray.com.au/">www.cammaray.com.au</a>)</div>
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We would highly recommend! Kelvin went to Our Rose each week and checked her </div>
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Sunrise here was lovely...</div>
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We were so thrilled to have Jono with us for a month</div>
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First night enjoying a dram with his Dad</div>
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Disgustingly large jellyfish...</div>
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It was wonderful to have Jono with us, and see him strong and confident again</div>
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We first met Tracey, Scott, Will and Molly (S/Y Yollata) in Guatemala... </div>
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they are now based in Canberra (a lot of water under the keels for both of us since first meeting!)</div>
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Anchored off Boatworks, a beautiful calm morning</div>
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How fast the time goes...</div>
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- now nearly five years later we visit home for the first time.</div>
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What an incredible five weeks we had in New Zealand,</div>
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we are extremely blessed to have such wonderful friends and family</div>
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thank you, thank you, thank you to you all for making our visit home sooooo special.</div>
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Flying into Christchurch and heading to Hils and Doug in Geraldine</div>
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our darling friends (as Richards Cousin - how lucky are we!)</div>
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Hils and I went Raspberry picking,</div>
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We headed off to Dunedin for a night to see Peggy, Richards Aunty, </div>
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along with the Family, Jane & Steve, Sarah and Steven (who visited us in San Blas)</div>
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It was so wonderful to see them all and we had a wonderful time with Peggy</div>
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Back to Hils and Doug and they took us jet boating </div>
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along with Dougs brother Peter and Hils and Dougs neighbors</div>
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saying a very sad "see you" to Hils and Doug </div>
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and we headed to Lynnette and Deans our darling friends<br />
who let us base ourselves with them at their gorgeous home while in Auckland.<br />
We were so wonderfully wined and dined - such fantastic friends...<br />
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Richard and Dean catching up and contemplating the world (with a glass in hand of course)...</div>
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Lynnette and her lovely Sisters and neices had organised a Indian dinner at Gaylenes home</div>
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next we headed to Northland - with our first stop being Jen and Bob</div>
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from here right up to Tokerau Beach to visit Terry, Doreen, Reuben, Devontay and Kalaye</div>
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it was so lovely to see them all - Reuben and Devontay children when we left are now adults!</div>
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Our darling friends Andy and Wendy invited us to their wonderful new Kiwifruit </div>
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Justine has started making and branding lovely soaps and bath salts - very cleverly called "JustMade"</div>
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Back home to Lynnette and Deans - such a peaceful spot - they truly made us feel like it was home!</div>
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Deans gorgeous Mum Anna had us over for a wonderful dinner (yes and more wine haha)</div>
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The weekend started with us leaving Gulf Harbour Marina on Karma and popping the Veuvre</div>
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Scalloping, Fishing, Kayaking, Lovely food, and wine and more wine.</div>
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It was so special for us to join family and good friends - we had the most fantastic weekend</div>
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Lynnettes most gorgeous grandchildren (Cody and Indi)</div>
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Clive telling us about the fish Cody caught and threw back moments before...</div>
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The Family - thank you all so much for including us in such an awesome weekend...</div>
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Finish as we began - fresh Scallops with lovely wine and sensational company...</div>
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The Boxing Day Sydney Hobart race was spectacular...</div>
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From Fiji we headed to New Caledonia.</div>
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There was an exhibition on from a New Zealand Sculptor which was extraordinary.</div>
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Fay and Phil (Jigsaw) told us about The Down Under Rally,</div>
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so we decided to join this to pave the way into Australia.</div>
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John and Leanne organised for Customs, Immigration and Bio Security </div>
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to clear us all in at Bundaberg Marina, </div>
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we then had a week of fun and seminars about cruising the Australian coast.</div>
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It was worth every cent, very professionally run and a really informative and fun week.</div>
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It was Melbourne Cup day, John and Leanne organised for us to go to the races</div>
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You know you're in Australia when you see these </div>
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They had a aboriginal from the local tribe play for us at our Welcome Dinner</div>
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At one of the seminars, Geoff from Bundaberg Marina had a tray of vegemite sandwiches for the people to try - the look on some of the faces was very amusing!</div>
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Now this is what we call a good sized chilly bin (or esky as they say in Oz)</div>
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We had an auction for crabs, then had crab races (the money going to Volunteer Marine Rescue)</div>
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Geoff and the team at Bundaberg Marina were fantastic.</div>
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We highly recommend Leanne and John from Down Under Rally... it made arriving in Australia very easy and the information we received was only what you could get with local knowledge.</div>
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Danny from Rockstar doing some kite surfing while we all waited to head across the bar at Wide Bay</div>
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We made our way down the coast, stopping at this gorgeous spot </div>
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and walking the sand hills with Carola and Jim (Koza)</div>
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Coming into the waterways at the Gold Coast there are some pretty amazing houses</div>
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You know you're in the Gold Coast when...</div>
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So, then it was time to hauled out again for antifoul touch up, cut and seal, sail drive work etc etc, all the usual preventative maintenance. Our Rose is really a very pampered girl!</div>
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The Boat Works is by far the best yard we have even been hauled.</div>
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The contractors here have also been absolutely awesome.</div>
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Our neighbour was the "New" Pirates of the Caribbean boat (movie not yet released)</div>
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Our Rose about to go back to the water where she belongs...</div>
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(stack pack yet to be reinstalled from being resewn)</div>
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We were lucky enough to be invited to The Boat Works Christmas party. </div>
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The theme was to dress us as someone using the first initial of your name - this lady was dressed up as Medusa (yes the python was very alive and real!).</div>
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Some of the amazing team from The Boat Works</div>
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Driving around over the weekend, the colors are gorgeous</div>
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Held just around the corner from here at his home - The Candy Mansion. 1000 guests!</div>
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Fay and Phil (Jigsaw) had invited us, </div>
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along with Carola and Jim (Koza) to crew with them for Muscat Cove Race Week.</div>
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What a "FUN" week it was...</div>
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Pirates Day was not to be missed, with the requirement to dress as a Pirate or a "Castaway".</div>
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Water Bombs and Water Guns were at the ready as we headed to Beachcomber for the festivities.</div>
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We were "kidnapped" by Pirates</div>
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made to walk over hot coals, </div>
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before being given a shot of rum (11am in the morning!)</div>
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Another day was the race to the Sandbar,</div>
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One of the competitions here was the "hairy chest" competition</div>
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The judges (women) had to stroke the mens chest and decide on a winner</div>
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(don't ask what the Woman competition was hahahaha)...</div>
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There were also Hoby Cat races, which Richard entered with 8 year old Will from Yollata</div>
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(what a gorgeous location!)</div>
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They won their first heat, and got to race again, to be pipped at the post...</div>
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The "Big" race was the round the island race...</div>
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Jigsaw and Out of the Bag are the same design, so the rivalry race was on!</div>
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Would you believe, we lead the race and got beaten by Bill by 1/2 a boat length over the line</div>
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After Race Week, we headed to Robinson Crusoe Island where we attended a dinner and show,</div>
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A Restaurant on Denerau Island - "cool"...</div>
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We had not seen our wonderful friends Ian and Wendy from S/V Outsider for 3 years, since Grenada.</div>
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In cruising life, like on land, you meet people that come and go in your lives, then you meet people who are very special and it was at Makogai that we met up again with these "special" people.</div>
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In February this year, Cyclone Winston hit Fiji, with a devastation that they had not experienced before. Being a Category 5 cyclone it left massive destruction in its wake.</div>
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Ian and Wendy were the first to respond to Makogai and found </div>
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90% of the village and the school totally destroyed. </div>
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Initially responding to the immediate needs - medical, drinking water, sanitation, shelter, clothing etc</div>
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Then began the assessment for rebuild. Wendy and Ian volunteered for Sea Mercy and with their assistance the rebuild begun. Ian spoke on radio in Australia and put out a request for help from anyone that was willing to come to this small island and assist with rebuilding.</div>
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The villages were in shock, having hidden under floorboards of buildings while the rest of the structure disappeared around them... when the floor started going, then running for their lives, carrying 8 month old baby, 80 year old women and hiding under the floor of another structure. How there was no loss of life was unbelievable!</div>
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During the period of rebuild, Ian and Wendy had approximately 30 boats, people of 20 nationalities and around 120 people come to assist in the rebuild. Early on, the volunteer work from Doctors and Psycologists was incredible for the villagers and of course the rest of volunteers being "anyone" who could do "anything" to help.</div>
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Some of the first people to arrive to assist were James, Hannah and their 3 children </div>
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They stayed for the complete project and were amazing with the rebuild and for support with Wendy and Ian who spearheaded the complete project.</div>
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All the materials had to arrive via boat, to give one of thousands of examples the following shows </div>
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This applied to everything, it would either come on boats or the barge and then carried ashore and to the village, the village women carrying large foundation poles, gallons and gallons of paint.</div>
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The rebuild project took 3 months. We only managed to arrive for the last 31/2 weeks and what a humbling experience it was to be involved with these incredibly resilient villagers. It is something that will stay with us for the rest of our lives.</div>
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We went via long boat each morning to the village - about 15 minutes </div>
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The artwork on the school building below completed by a artist friend of Ian and Wendy</div>
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Very frightened traumatised villagers now smiling and laughing...</div>
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The hand over ceremony was attended by Government officials, Sea Mercy and volunteers</div>
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- a truly moving experience with them dancing telling their stories of the cyclone in one of the dances, the rest being traditional dance.</div>
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The ribbon cutting completed by the government official</div>
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When Isa Lei (Fijia Goodbye) was sung to us tears flowed freely from us all</div>
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The elders of the church have a Kava Ceremony before the service begun</div>
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Her lovely old doggie joined us at Church and enjoyed sleeping under the pew</div>
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between walking around everyone to get some Sunday "love"</div>
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We offered to then cook lunch at Tupou's home</div>
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- obviously homemade Pasta by Francesco and Felicia</div>
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and I made Apple Strudel for dessert.</div>
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It was a really lovely long afternoon lunch.</div>
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One of the wonderful things about this life we have, is meeting so many wonderful people</div>
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However, one of the very hard things is also saying "until we see you again" to them</div>
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and the time had come for us to say "until next time" to Felicia and Francesco.</div>
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Richard and I put on a lunch for this happy, but sad occasion</div>
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We had all had so much fun and laughter together...</div>
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So it was time to say goodbye Tonga, and a 3 night passage to Savusavu Fiji</div>
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We caught Mahimahi along the way</div>
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The fish is the most amazing color, which changes as life ebbs</div>
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On arrival at Savusavu Tonga</div>
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we were greeted on the radio by Jolene from Waitui Marina...<br />
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Jolene organised the various officials to come to Our Rose.</div>
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Jolene made our arrival to Tonga and subsequently our stay here an absolute pleasure,<br />
helping us with everything she possibly can. <br />
For our cruiser friends following, we would highly recommend Jolene at Waitui Marina.</div>
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Anyway, our arrival day happened to also be my birthday. <br />
By the time we had cleared with officials it was late in the afternoon,<br />
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Along with Carola and Jim from Koza, we headed to Daku Resort for lunch.</div>
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When the resort heard it was my birthday (albeit the day before)</div>
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they came out with a candle and singing Happy Birthday</div>
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while there, we met a lovely group of people<br />
who were there with a fantastic artist (<a href="http://www.chrispostle.com/">www.chrispostle.com</a>) for a art course.<br />
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In true Jen form, after a wine or two,<br />
I invited them all back to Our Rose for Tapas and Wine the following afternoon.<br />
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Including Jim and Carola, there were about a dozen of us...</div>
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My tapas were made up of Tuna 2 ways, Crayfish, NZ Sirloin, Spicy Pawpaw Salad, Fresh Bean Salad Oriental style, Balsamic Tomatoes, Fresh Bread Rolls and lovely fritters Carola made.</div>
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Of course, this was all followed by Pavlova!</div>
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It was a really fantastic afternoon/evening,</div>
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the guitars coming out after many liquid refreshments and the cuban cigars (hahaha)</div>
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A few days later,<br />
I went up to look at the artwork they had completed during the week<br />
it was really amazing!</div>
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Chris (<a href="http://www.chrispostle.com/">www.chrispostle.com</a>) gave Richard and I this beautiful painting </div>
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Thank You, Thank You, Thank You...<br />
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We have the perfect pride of place for it on Our Rose.</div>
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We were so excited - Hils and Doug were coming, </div>
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after not seeing them since leaving home over 4 years ago, </div>
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you can imagine the catch up was going to be "BIG"...</div>
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After arriving here in Vava'u, we found the provisioning for Meat, Chicken and Cheese appalling, so I put a SOS call in to Hils and Doug and said - "Please bring meat",</div>
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so along with the obligatory Jaffas, Pineapple lumps and Yoghurt sachets,</div>
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they brought beautiful NZ Sirloin and Lamb Racks</div>
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It didn't take long to Hils for find a comfy spot</div>
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and our first dinner together, Hils and Doug already looked relaxed...</div>
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We had so much fun together, and in no particular order of the holiday the following photos show lots of food, wine, fun, snorkelling, diving (the only photo that didn't come out was the whales!).</div>
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Swallows Cave the light was beautiful</div>
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Francesco and Felicia joined us for many get togethers with lots of laughs and wonderful times...</div>
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and the most fantastic homemade pasta</div>
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Hils having some lessons with Francesco...</div>
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tended to end up like this...</div>
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(and yes that is Hils pole dancing hahaha)</div>
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sometimes Francesco would make special coffees and Doug would enjoy a cuban Cigar</div>
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in between all this partying we also did lots of other things</div>
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Scuba Experienced...</div>
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After Snorkelling and Hils enjoying the sun while sailing</div>
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Phil and Fay from Jigsaw kindly offered for us to join them in the 4 July race</div>
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What fun! Jigsaw was all dressed up with her flags before the race and it was great seeing most of the boats behind us</div>
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We had a "dress up" dinner to celebrate a very early birthday for the girls enjoying some very special wine that Doug and Hils had brought over from New Zealand...</div>
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we had Smoked Crayfish and Smoked Tuna as an entree...</div>
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followed by NZ Lamb racks, Lyonnaise Potatoes, Ginger Carrots - with this gorgeous bottle of red!</div>
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At a village we went to at Hunga Haven, we met a lovely local lady who was weaving a mat in preparation for a wedding - this mat was 15 feet long and 7 ft wide</div>
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On our last evening together we went to 'Utule My Tongan Home"</div>
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Tupou invites you to her home, where you experience Tongan feast and cultural performance</div>
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it was really a great evening...</div>
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with Molly from Yollata invited to join the girls dancing</div>
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It was a wonderful two weeks, with wonderful times. </div>
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Hopefully this sunset will be one of many we will all experience together in the future...</div>
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Thank You Hils and Doug for joining us...</div>
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Our friends Wendy and Ian from Outsider had let us know that if the weather was right</div>
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that we would not regret stopping at Maupiti and Mopelia...</div>
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The entrance to Maupiti was nerve racking, with a pass in the reef, where the current ran fast</div>
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and a dog-leg entrance, Richard helmed and I did the throttles, maintaining enough power so that we didn't lose steerage of Our Rose. It was beautiful there.</div>
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After a couple of days, we then did a overnight sail to Mopelia</div>
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This pass was extremely narrow - only 40ft wide between the reefs</div>
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with a outgoing current that was fast!</div>
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These passes made the passes in the Tuamotos feel very tame!</div>
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Mopelia has only 20 people living there.</div>
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The family that we spent all our time with, were people introduced by Wendy & Ian.</div>
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They were the most wonderful people.</div>
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On our first day, we were invited to dinner with the family</div>
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Crayfish, Marinated Fish, Fish Kebabs, Coconut Crab, Rice, Salads - amazing</div>
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We had only planned to be there for 4 days, however this turned into two weeks</div>
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as the weather was not conducive for us to leave.</div>
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What an amazing two weeks we had!</div>
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On arrival day, we were given these beautiful necklaces</div>
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During our time there, Richard got up at 4am and went fishing with Hio (son)</div>
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Hio's uncle caught a huge Wahoo, which was then shared with the 6 cruising boats,</div>
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we smoked our piece (the photo is of the smoked wahoo on a "dinner plate"!)</div>
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It was a big fish!</div>
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Richard also went crayfishing with Hio</div>
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This entailed going at night to the reef, and the crayfish "walk" over the reef and you pick them up</div>
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Easier said then done - Richard "saw" one, Hio got a sackful</div>
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We also met and spent time with Francesco and Felicia (cruisers)</div>
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Francesco is from Italy.</div>
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One night, Francesco decided to make homemade pasta for us all - delicious!</div>
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Our contribution to all this wonderful food was cakes and desserts - that was what was requested, so I baked often.</div>
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I even made them sausage rolls - a kiwi favourite!</div>
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Hio also gave us a huge tray of sea bird eggs, so of course I had to make them a Bacon and Egg Pie</div>
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Hio tagged a turtle, and we were there for the day of release to freedom</div>
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The location is absolutely gorgeous... what a place to be "stuck"...</div>
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and he had caught some fish, so we had a bbq</div>
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We dropped anchor at Pitu uu Tai - lovely glass calm with no other boats.</div>
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Snorkeling was colourful...</div>
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On arrival at Vaitape we were immediately invited by Jim & Carola (Koza) to join them </div>
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They found the trail to be very steep <b>all</b> the way, including ropes on rock faces. </div>
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all of us having to report back to the police station at 07.00 the next morning for them to be informed how much a helicopter would have cost if they hadn't made it out!</div>
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Our lovely Tem makes paddles - he races in the local boats, so we had him make us one</div>
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It really is lovely (and will also be used in our kayak)</div>
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We hired a car and drove around Raiatea.</div>
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We were shown the process at a Pearl Farm, where the oyster has a host piece harvested from one oyster, inserted into another along with a "foreign" ball. <br />
The harvested piece is what will determine the colour of the pearl</div>
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They are then put into these cages and put back in the sea for 18 months, </div>
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when the pearl has developed.</div>
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Taputapuatea is a large Marae complex at Opoa. </div>
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The site features a number of marae and other stone structures and was once considered the central temple and religious centre of Eastern Polynesia.</div>
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The Marae was established by 1000 AD.</div>
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Most significantly a truce known as the Faatau Aroha was established with the surrounding islands divided into two alliances known as Aotea (East) and Aouri (West). This alliance lasted for many years and promoted an intense period of exploration, leading to the discovery and colonisation of all the islands of Eastern Polynesia, including Hawaii, Rapanui and Aotearoa (New Zealand).</div>
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The scenery is lovely with tropical plants and waterfalls...<br />
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and dramatic backdrops<br />
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Look what we found in the supermarket - Yes, NZ Lamb - as in a whole one<br />
plus anchor butter and Hokey Pokey Ice-cream - heaven!<br />
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Over at Tahaa we went snorkelling at a spot known as "The Coral Gardens"<br />
The coral was so healthy with lots of marine life - I will let the photos tell the story...<br />
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After Tahaa, we headed back to Raiatea to collect our Screecher which had been repaired.<br />
We were then ready to head to Bora Bora.<br />
We had just gone through the pass when the stiching on our Headsail came away along the bottom and up most of the outer side - the UV had disintegrated the thread<br />
so, it was turn around and back to our wonderful sail repairer.<br />
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As it was a long weekend, it could not be repaired until she reopened on the Tuesday.<br />
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I had found NZ Lamb shanks in the supermarket, so I slow cooked these with red wine, rosemary, whole head of garlic (halved across) star anise, onions, carrots etc etc<br />
4 hours later when ready, these had to be enjoyed with a very special bottle of red wine.<br />
Our darling friends Chris & Michael had sent a special bottle over for us with Lynnette<br />
Thank You, Thank You<br />
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Tuesday our headsail had been repaired - using Tenana Thread (teflon coated) which will last many years. Wednesday morning it was goodbye Raiatea and Tahaa<br />
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Hello Bora Bora<br />
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