Nuka Hiva is still awesome after two and a half weeks. We have watched fishermen cutting up huge yellowfin tuna at the dinghy dock and throwing the entrails to huge sharks swimming around our dinghy in the water, we’ve drunk many glasses of pamplemousse juice and eaten more of the fruit (large sweet grapefruit, my …

Written 24hrs out from Nuka Hiva: As it was with leaving so it is with arriving, I won’t believe in it until it happens!… but it looks as if we will make landfall in the next 24hrs. That seems such a short time after 29 days, only one more night watch until a full night’s …

My (Suzi) first blog post and our last one for Mexico! I am drenched by a mist of unreality that has drifted in with the northerly winds and now surrounds us, our boat and our imminent departure to the South Seas. Or perhaps it’s that I have released the lines of expectation, tying me to …

After three great months visiting family and friends and escaping the oppressive heat that is Mexican Summer, we returned to a dusty boat yard in Guaymas, Sonora to see how our boat fared. It turned out that the Wendy Ellen did just fine during our absence. Nothing was stolen and no damage from wind or …

So… we braved the heat well into the Mexican summer while sailing in the northern Sea of Cortez until we could bare it no longer and we left the boat in Guaymas and flew to California to spend some time in the high Sierras. The trip was great and we got to see lots of …

So after our non-eventful crossing of the Sea of Cortez, we arrived in Algondones in the Mexican mainland state of Sonora… a wide beac-lined bay full of Mexican resorts (that’s resorts-for-Mexicans) and some private houses owned by Mexicans. We stayed one night to rest up, but having no place to grab a hot shower or …

Wow. Our first crossing of a major body of water. All night… all day (and that’s nothing compared to what we’ll see in the Pacific). We tried for a few days to get information as to other boat’s typical passage time so that we could make sure to time our own trip where we were …

We have been to Punta Chivato with the boat three different times in the last year. The first two times, the small anchorage was far too rolly to stay overnight, and we were forced to keep sailing to more protected waters. The third time we passed the point, it was with our visiting friend Dr. …

Our friend Dr. Anna, who helped Suzi on one of her Fiji trips, now works for the Australian Government helping to form environmental policy (her job is mostly research). She was fortunate enough to be sent to the UN in New York to help represent Australia in negotiations leading up to a 10 yearly International …

From Bahía de Consepcion, we sailed north with lots of westerly wind right on the beam but bazaar south easterly swell. We had planned on staying the night in the tiny anchorage just barely protected by Punta Chivato but after stopping there and eating lunch in constant rollers, we decided to turn a long day …