18 October, Wednesday Hey! Dalton here. We eare currently in Noumea, New Caledonia. We have been here for about a week and a half. We sailed here from Vanuatu with our friends, the Hlavaceks, who also live in Charleston. It’s awesome here! New Caledonia is a French territory, made up of dozens of islands. It’s…

6/30/23 We cruised with Middletons for two weeks, making our way west via the Jean-Michel Cousteau Resort and Namema Reserve dive site (the inspiration for Finding Nemo), the Mamanuca Islands (where Tom Hanks’ Castaway was filmed), Musket Cove, and several other anchorages that checked the boxes of “full breeze, flat seas, noteworthy sunset, and a…

Hey, everyone! This is Dalton. The below post was written about 2 weeks ago, but we didn’t have internet service for about a month, so the posts are delayed. Here’s a bit of what we’ve been up to: June 1 Right now we’re in a place called the Lau Group in Fiji. We dropped off…

The weather is finally favorable and we are heading north to Fiji! After we filled several grocery carts, ran countess errands, did every stitch of laundry, and checked off the boat to-list, we have set sail with the spinnaker full!  Customs arrived on board at 8am to check us out of New Zealand. We refueled…

The weather is finally favorable and we are heading north to Fiji! This will likely be our longest passage of our year’s travels, at 8-10 days. Once we were feeling confident with our departure date, the preparations accelerated. After we filled several grocery carts, ran countess errands, did every stitch of laundry, and checked off…

Our 2 weeks in Auckland have been successful and enjoyable- all systems are repaired and up and running! We’ve enjoyed learning more about this fascinating city, as we’ve toured the museums, aquarium, Sky Tower, libraries…even the Urgent Care centers! I took an intensive 2 day Offshore Medical course, and promptly broke my great toe 2…

Hi, Everybody! This is Dalton, and I’m going to tell you about our most recent time in Russell. Russell is a cute little town with LOTS of shops and restaurants. There is a small town Craft Fair every Saturday, and we went to it both Saturdays that we were in town. There was a pizza…

We didn’t feel so sorry for them! This majestic, untouched marine reserve offered the most spectacular rock formations of walls and arches, impressive sea caves, and a myriad of friendly sea life. The Rikoriko (see our Instagram photos!) Cave is one of the largest sea caves in the world. Several of the subtropical fish living…

3 April This morning, John and the children went ashore for more beach and grassland exploration. I stayed on board and did a workout and prepared for our lengthy sail to The Cove. We had lunch and pulled up the anchor. We had our most beautiful sail yet to The Cove. We have not had…

2 April Coralie Bay is stunning. It is surrounded by high, white cliffs to the east of Great Mercury. There are shell laden beaches and perfect climbing hills, per Dalton and Hall. John went wing foiling and the rest of us explored on paddle boards. Hall and John enjoyed snorkeling, but the currents were strong.…