Our SnapReads are meant to Share insight to our Exploration and Learnings. They are like any picture – only in painted with words.
SnapReads may be detailed and focused or blurry writings for fun.
We share them with family, friends and whomever takes the time to lean back and enjoy reading them.
To stay true to our Explore – Learn – Share, we had to try the Kava of the South Pacific. We read up on it long before we dropped anchor in Fiji in September 2023. Now was time to EXPLORE it and LEARN something about a 3.000-year-old tradition.
After arriving Fiji in the beginning of September 2023, we spent three weeks back and forth between marina life at Vuda Marina and tourist life in Musket cove. After having Escape on land for maintenance and repair, we needed to get away. We headed for the Yasawa, a group of Read more…
Vetle had an encounter with a Grey Shark in Tahanea in French Polynesia. He did not panic, kept hands and feet together always facing the shark. Exactly what to do.
We are members of Ocean Cruising Club (OCC). It is a club for blue water cruisers with some miles under the keel. We regularly publish articles in the club magazine – the Flying Fish. Below is the article on our Pacific crossing in April 2022 – ‘The Pacific drift‘ as Read more…
It sneaked up on us yesterday evening. At night. Late. Ten minutes before midnight. It starts in Kiribati, a small island group just west of the international date line. In 1994 the government of Kiribati decided that all of their 33 small atolls, spread over more than 5 million square Read more…
I sat on the side of our dinghy with my feet already in the water. We, Theresa, Morgan from Nomadica and myself, had just arrived the false pass at Totegegie, an island in the Gambier Archipelago. We had carefully gone through the pass and dropped the dinghy anchor in a Read more…
We have had request for ‘The ESCAPE red cap’ ever since we wrote about it in our blog here. It is a cool cap that can be used for sun or rain We then decided to open a small shop for Escape West merchandise to share with our followers our Read more…
we finally arrived Curacao after 14 months of waiting. We are ready for the next chapter in our Explore- Learn – Share
‘On behalf of the entire Ocean Cruising Club I’m delighted to congratulate you onbeing chosen to receive the David Wallis Trophy for 2020 for your delightfulFlying Fish story entitled, Voyagin With Vetle’. To our big surprise, we were awarded the David Wallis Trophy for our article in the OCC Flying Read more…
The VHF radio sparked again. It was 4 am on March 20th. I was setteling in for the final approach to Curacao. ‘sy Escape, this is the Curacao coast guard. Please answer‘. I pushed the send button ‘Good morning curacao coast guard, this is sy Escape‘. ‘Please state your intentions Read more…