Hello today is December 27 2014 our travels begin in 6 days and this is a test of our blog site. First off we have to get ourselves to Florida to catch our ride to Easter Island. Ocean Princess is her name, she will be our home for 25 days as we travel from Fort Lauderdale Florida to Tahiti. From there we will spend sometime land based before heding back out onto the water. Stay tune

Wayward Wind finale, once we left Castaway Island we headed off for a night at a place called Musket Cove. It's a marina set up for yachties with a general store and bar and lots of boat parking spaces. Aaron and the Wayward Wind were pretty well known around here and we shared in some of the perks of having such a famous boat and crew. Our last night we decided to have a bbq onshore and Joy was put in charge of the grilling. With laughs and beers held high we ...

Wayward Wind Fiji, day four on the Wayward Wind and it finally dried out, the boat that is. Day one and two saw us sailing/motoring to our first anchorage and a heavy rain storm and day two was more of the same no sun at all. Waking on day three there was plenty of sun but the low front had the ocean still rocking and once we left the Blue Lagoon we were rocked by 12-15 foot seas. Turning Joy and I three shades of green and shaking everything loose in the fuel ...

Nadi, Fiji, South Pacific Ocean. After a 48 hour airport to airport ordeal we arrive bleary eyed and welcomed by 92 degree heat. We left Philippines smiling and happy having done some of the best diving we have ever done and also that after nine days our bar bill was only $152. We have spent that in a day on some cruises we have taken. Flying on Korean Air three hours and then another nine from Korea to Fiji I think we have watched every recently released movie...

Palawan, Coron, Philippines South China Sea. The lazy days of beaches. After Africa and the constant moving around Sangat Island here in Coron Philippines is relaxed. 35 minutes out of Coron by speed boat we are on a small one resort island surrounded by an underwater sanctuary. We can easily snorkel off our beach with no riptides or strong currents. Our first room was a two story Villa with its own private beach geared more for honeymooners then us two. So we ...