Friday, October 16th – Day 23 – Nomeau, New Caledonia Today is Nomeau (New-may-a), we're about half way between Fiji and Australia and we’re about to hit France. Yes France. New Caledonia is a cluster of islands in the Coral Sea that is blessed with a massive coral reef and is considered a French enclave. Noumea, the country’s capital, with a population of about 180,000 peoplecovers a peninsula on the largest island, the cigar shaped Gr...

Day 22 of our Sailing Adventure I was torn today. Go ashore or watch the Blue Jays Game 5 of the ALDS that started at 06:00 a.m. a day before they really started to play. Deborah convinced me that our tender tickets took priority, so after a filling room-service breakfast we headed out to the tiny village of Kuto on Iles des Pins in New Caledonia. I can see from our balcony why they named the island – Iles des Pins, the whole island is covered with pine tr...

Anniversary – Easo, Lifou New Caledonia Seventeen years ago today I was getting married on side of the caldera by the mayor of Santorini, Greece. Today we're on another tiny island in the South Pacific, more specifically Easo on the French island of New Caledonia. It would be really interesting to know just how miles we’ve travelled in the twenty-two years together, easily in the six figures I suspect. Lifou island is a commune of France in the Loy...