Circumnavigation 2020 onwards
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The Komodo dragon’s hunting strategy is to ambush its prey & with one venomous bite that significantly tears the flesh, the venom prevents blood coagulation and drops the victim’s blood pressure. The dragon will then catch up with you later, once you collapse from hypovolemic shock.
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Fiji-NZ-Fiji
The first day or two out of NZ was a wild sail, reminding us that we hate sailing. I barfed a lot and we were…
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Vanlife in New Zealand
I didn’t really understand the aimless wandering from one Lord of The Rings-like scenic set to another, combined with suffering through camping cooking and timing…
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Swimming with humpbacks in Tonga
Just like ABBA hits, songs are shared by tribes of humpbacks across oceans and handed down to generations, resurrected as an oral tradition of a…
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Suwarrow in the Cook Islands
The Polynesians mastered navigation 4000 years ago as evidenced by their trek across the Pacific…
● About Us
Yo! It’s Ann and Ian on our 1984 Wauquiez Amphitrite. Photos & blog by Ann, keeping us afloat and moving forward by Ian.
● Of interest
Check if your gov’t has ratified the UN High Seas Treaty, if not lobby your gov’t – we can have 30% of Oceans a marine park and have a well-regulated global fisheries
Great podcast from Outside Magazine about military parajumper training in breath holding
See this story of Cook Islanders shipwrecked on Minerva Reef in 60s (film coming soon)
BBC Planet Earth: pack hunting – first documentation of snakes hunting the marine iguana in Galapagos
Book Rec’d: Christina Thompson The Sea People on ancient Polynesian Navigation (this is sooo good)
Sailing Afrikii 