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day 130 sevu sevu

September 21, 2022

Naomi here, Another thing that happened in Suva is while robin and I were trying to find the itauki office for the cruising permit we got hustled by a guy,...

day 128 & 129: the nature trial

September 21, 2022

Naomi here, Wow Suva is a lot, yesterday robin and I did all the going to and from customs, getting our cruising permit from the itauki office, going back to...

day 128 & 129: the nature trial

September 21, 2022

Naomi here, Wow Suva is a lot, yesterday robin and I did all the going to and from customs, getting our cruising permit from the itauki office, going back to...

Megan's Photos!

September 19, 2022

Megan is winging her way back to work and life in Wellington and has kindly sent us some photos from her time on Bluebird to bring visuals to some of the...

day 127: NZ Warship

September 19, 2022

Robin here: I have been bequeathed the iPad because I was inches from keeling over but so much has happened today I simply can’t bail on the blog and sleep...

Day 125 and a half

September 17, 2022

Miriam chiming in after the fact…a liminal blog between blogs… Being with change and the subtle (and not so subtle) shifts of conditions and experience is...

day 125: scabrous dogs

September 16, 2022

Bula, Megan here. It is the final night of our passage, unless the ocean swallows us up. We have placed bets as to what time we will arrive in Suva: I am the...

day 124: peddle to the meddle

September 15, 2022

Jamie here: another day, and the planet xcomm is one day closer to being liberated by aliens thanks to our noble captain Crum. Always got busy important...

September 14, 2022

Jamie: today we realised we are not making time as well as we thought. The race is on, we shook out the reef now we are running full main sail and the big...

day 122 - tonys sunglasses tan line

September 13, 2022

Jamie here, as much as the 3-6 shift is shunted, it is great on sunny hot days like today where I can soak up the afternoon rays without being too hot, like...

day 121: chasing the sun

September 12, 2022

Jamie here, Today we continued sailing to Fiji. Thought about stopping off at a KFC on the way but thought we should save money. Made adventure bread and...

day 120: back to sicily

September 11, 2022

Jamie here: today we passed by Niue about 40 miles away , we couldn’t see it but that’s the sort of geographical realm we are in. A few weeks ago, in...

day 119: living on a prayer

September 10, 2022

Jamie: we’ve made to the halfway point of our journey from bora bora to Fiji and we are celebrating large. Hotcakes with Nutella today, bird masks by Megan,...

September 10, 2022

I missed another cache of photos so here's another taste of life on Bluebird. Shots from Tahanea and Fakarava atolls, plus flying the kite :)

September 10, 2022

Jennie here: Just in from Ellen who is back in wifi land now, some visuals from Makatea and Bora Bora, so lovely to be able to see the beautiful islands...

day 118: from squall to squalor

September 9, 2022

Miriam here, The moon is growing full, lighting the waves to silver. The light shift when a cloud passes by is dramatic, the entire scene going dark more so...

day 117 water water everywhere

September 8, 2022

Kia ora, Megan here! It’s becoming harder to remember what I have done each day, and what counts as “today.” One thing we definitely did today was take salt...

September 7, 2022

Kia ora, Megan here! Today, no meltdowns. Between around 10pm and 2:30am, I slept like a baby (a baby who did have water dashed into their crib at one point...

September 6, 2022

Kia ora, Megan here! The continuous day of passage, where time is demarcated by naps and seems to loop rather than move forward. But I don’t mind this loop....

day 114 rough toothed gang

September 5, 2022

Naomi here, A fickle winds night watch last night with plenty of slatting sails, but I got to watch a half moon setting over the ocean, so yellow it was...

day 113 fare well

September 4, 2022

Naomi here, Yesterday we arrived in Bora Bora, today we checked out of the country and left French Polynesia… A quick turnaround, it’s happened so quickly....

September 4, 2022

Just wanted to thank everyone that has supported this adventure happening, for all of us that were so fortunate to be along. Jennie and Bob, Tom and Shiela,...

Day 111: some sort of omen

September 3, 2022

Miriam: Passage life continues. It’s an interesting rhythm, everyone on slightly different sleep schedules, switching off every two hours to take our turn at...

September 3, 2022

Jennie: This spot came in an hour ago so I’m assuming they are anchored or on a mooring by now. They had to slow down last night and hang out outside, going...

September 2, 2022

Click on link below and Zoom way out to see where they are. Lat-16deg7‘48” Lon-150deg45‘48” Alt+012ft GPS Sats seen: 11 2015-06-29 13:27UTC...

day 110 or maybe 111

September 2, 2022

Naomi here We are free on the open ocean again, rolling about downwind. Makatea was truly a magical stop off where I found more shells and we also gleaned...

September 1, 2022

Jennie here: Things seem a bit confusing right now as the Noforeignland site shows Bluebird still on a mooring off Makatea when in fact they left there this...

day 109- kiss kiss

September 1, 2022

Ia orana Megan here. Tonight we are about to be rocked into deep sleep- we’ve sailed 150 miles, we’ve explored a new motu, we’ve found a home for the night,...

day one-hundred-and-SAILING

August 31, 2022

Ellen here. Guess I was the only one up for writing a blog entry last night… Our cotter pins may be creative, but the prop is on and spinning, and we are...

day 107 megan’s sentence continues

August 29, 2022

Ia orana, Megan here. Again. Now previously one might go so far as to say that not completing the blog because I didn’t feel like it at the time or I fell...

day 107 straight to heaven

August 29, 2022

Ellen: The day started with the usual gorgeous dawn pastels, tinged with the remnants of disturbing dreams and resigned wondering if it was even worth asking...

day 106 pick up sticks

August 28, 2022

Jamie : today we went to school. Outboard school. The teacher, mr Q, is firm but fair. We took apart the outboard motor and went over the basic workings of...

DAY 100 SEA SHANTY LYRICS

August 28, 2022

So we can all sing along together, To the tune of “the wellerman” , you know the one about, to bring us sugar and tea and rum, etc. A hundred days A hundred...

August 27, 2022

Q Lovely day, onshore wind and waves making dinghy landing and launching a bit exciting. Had a wave come clear over not only the side of the boat, but the...

August 27, 2022

-----Original Message----- From: Sent: Fri, 26 Aug 2022 10:34:44 -1000 Subject: day 104 Ia orana, Megan here. This morning I went to shore, connected to the...

August 27, 2022

IVE BEEN WRITING THE WRONG EMAIL ADDRESS HERES OUR OLD EMAILS OK -----Original Message----- From: Sent: Fri, 26 Aug 2022 10:27:17 -1000 Subject: day 102 Ia...

August 27, 2022

-----Original Message----- From: Sent: Fri, 26 Aug 2022 10:28:45 -1000 Subject: day 103 Naomi here, Today I developed a new technique for shelling, which was...

August 23, 2022

Ellen here, THE BOATYARD - that’s where we are, otherwise known as purgatory. Don’t get me wrong - this is an amazingly beautiful, tranquil, friendly...

Did you email us recently?

August 23, 2022

Hello friends, family, and devoted fans. We have had some trouble with receiving email recently. We have reason to believe upwards of 5 emails have spiralled...

August 22, 2022

Q here day not 100 for me maybe 50ish Sad starting to think about planning going home. Don’t get me wrong, I love my home, friends, farm and the daily life,...

August 21, 2022

Ellen: Gentle rise and fall of stern and bow, great eastern swell walking us downwind through the pool of stars. Long low rolling southern swell, sedate and...

day 97 dark riders

August 19, 2022

Ellen- To bicycle on an atoll and see across from here to there, from wild empty outside roar, windswell tearing at the reef, inside calm ripple fringe and...

August 19, 2022

Jennie here : Fantastic to get a dose of internet from Bluebird today thanks to Megan for forwarding some photos to share. While I have you, in answer to a...

days 95-96 Megan beats the ocean into submission (and is returned in kind)

August 19, 2022

Ia orana, Megan here. Yet again, dear readers, my companions have published the blog without my contributions. Of course, they did offer, and I declined, not...

day 97 - future sailors

August 19, 2022

Jamie here - last night we endeavoured a feat of sailing excellence from tahanea to fakarava. All auxiliary engines were engaged and the team pulled through...

August 16, 2022

Hello it’s Naomi Today we went for a really nice sail all over the lagoon and we counted our lucky stars we didn’t leave yesterday when the cloudy windy...

deja vu - with lobster

August 15, 2022

Q here Ahhh yes, Discover Boating, beautiful sunrises and sunsets, long walks on the white sand beaches ! Colourful reef fish, plans turned upside down and...

August 15, 2022

Megan here. We seem to have lost track of what day it actually is. Yesterday, yet again, I bravely plunged into the water on my own and swam to shore. On a...

Day 87 - titanium toms

August 13, 2022

Jamie here, I didn’t get off the boat today. I pottered around doing some boat jobs. Made bread (we’ve already polished off one loaf hehe) As I was cleaning...

Day 96 - moving day

August 12, 2022

Ia orana, Megan here. Today we packed up and moved out - across the lagoon. I had a final kayak and frolick along the shore. I added sandpiper and fruit dove...