Travels of Hew & Barb on our yacht Eleuthera
Repairs, Maintenance and Upgrade Planning Leaving the Caribbean and heading across the Pacific, we were looking forward to reaching the boat-friendly shores of New Zealand. We had planned a list of repairs, maintenance and...
We left for French Polynesia in flat calm weather, but when nearly halfway we hit a storm, took some damage and needed to return to New Zealand for repairs.
Departing Tonga Trying to leave Tonga becamse very problematic with the weather playing a large part in holding us up by causing us to sail up and down the chain of islands. On top...
Raiatea and Taaha are two islands within one atoll with many places to snorkel and dive. Paget and Stella were joining us for 10 days but, unfortunately, we only saw a tantalising tiny bit...
Arrival We arrived first thing in the morning everything was quiet and still. We had to wait for another yacht to clear with customs before we could go onto the fisherman’s wharf. The entry...
We dropped one crew , had two days and then took on the next crew – to be named the pink crew for their nails and clothing and then the gimballed Trollops for all...
We travelled to Fkarava to catch up with friends coning in from New Zealand as it was easy to fly to and to see what a big more populous atoll was like. Fakarava is...
After a leisurely two-day sail down from the Marquesas Islands, we arrived in Raroia. The only excitement was finding a flying fish in the sail bag one morning after a rough and windy night....
San Cristóbal is the Capital of Galapagos and surprisingly smart and tidy but also it is the island of sea lions which we loved. General San Cristobal is the eastern most island in the...
Floreana is a small island with only 150 residents but it is a real gem and was the most friendly and welcoming of all the islands. A very different feeling from the bigger touristy...
This follows on from the previous blog. https://kiwiflyingfish.com/2024/05/isla-isabela-1-puerto-villamil-tintoreras/ and is about a tour that was really a Trialthalon: Walking, Cycling, Walking and Beer. Day 2 Volcanoes: Sierra Negra The next day we decided to...
Arriving just on sunset the crew was very glad to drop anchor in daylight (just) as the entrance was narrow and the charts an approximate view only. We sometimes forget that there is no...
Post Canal Crossing and Pre-Passage We were so late after we got through the canal, that we found an anchoring spot the first night we ate onboard but by the second night everyone was...
The whole waterway of the Panama Canal is 82 km long 85 feet above sea level at Lake Gatun. The locks and cut-throughs were built in 1904-1914but the original idea was first proposed in...
We had spent far too much time in Martinique and Saint Lucia waiting for the Raymarine screens. We were ready to go. Crew Two weeks earlier I had seen a post on the Caribbean...
Fish / Flora & Fauna / French Polynesia / Pacific / Society Islands
Tantalising Time at Taaha and Raiatea
07/01/2025
