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A family circumnavigating to EXPLORE, LEARN and SHARE
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SnapReads from a circumnavigation

Kava – the South Pacific heritage

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.

By dhoiland, 1 year09/03/2024 ago
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Somosomo village, Fiji

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…

By dhoiland, 1 year06/03/2024 ago
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‘The Pacific Drift’ is published !!

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…

By dhoiland, 2 years13/01/2023 ago
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We’re Escaping further west in 2023

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…

By dhoiland, 2 years02/01/2023 ago
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S1E3 – Bay of Biscay

S1E3 is out and we push on. This time we leave the north behind and arrive warmer waters after a bumpy ride across the Bay of Biscay. Click on the video (below) to see our travels of look at a previous blog ‘ life after 50+‘ on this page to Read more…

By dhoiland, 4 years11/11/2021 ago
Spanish Waters, CURACAO
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.. ‘this is the Curacao coastguard’ ..

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…

By dhoiland, 5 years15/07/2020 ago
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It is time

It is time now.  Time to go, time to EXPLORE, time to LEARN and time to share.   It is not like we have not explored or learned from the previous ten years of zigzagging the North sea and Scandinavia waters, but now we need to cross new horizons together as Read more…

By dhoiland, 7 years20/02/2018 ago
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