We left San Francisco on February 10, 2010 with a plan to head south to Mexico and then make the innocently named "puddle jump" to the South Pacific (!!) this spring. From there, who knows?!?!?!? Maybe Fiji? Australia? New Zealand? For now, we're just thrilled to finally be out at sea! 
Last week, we took a trip to the Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary just outside of Brisbane. Along with Koalas, the LPS has a variety of other animals, reptiles and birds that are native to Australia. I was super excited to go because their website promised 1) you could hold a koala; 2) you could feed […]
Entries Tagged as 'shoe-cruising'
Who wants a Roo? (aka our trip to the Lone Pine Sanctuary)
November 29th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Australia, Famous Firsts, First Mates, Fun Stuff, shoe-cruising, Shore Excursions, The End
Tags: Brisbane·Kangaroos·Koalas·Lone Pine Sanctuary·wildlife
Scenes from Brisbane
November 26th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Australia, Beautiful, shoe-cruising
**Note – all the really great evening/night pictures were taken by JON! Can you see why we are loving it here?!?!?!? 🙂
Tags: Brisbane
Dear Brisbane, will you marry me?
November 12th, 2010 · No Comments · Australia, Beautiful, First Mates, shoe-cruising
After just one day of a LOT of walking around, I am SO SO SO SO SO in love with Brisbane!!! I’ve never responded to a city this way before, not even Paris, and I am a wee bit jealous that Jon will have so much more time to get to know this place. Despite […]
Weather waffling and McDonald’s in Noumea
November 1st, 2010 · 2 Comments · Fellow Cruisers, Life on the Boat, New Caledonia, On Safety, Passages, Random Thoughts, shoe-cruising
Hello!! I don’t know if I ever updated where we currently are, but we are at the Port Moselle marina in Noumea, New Caledonia. New Cal is an island country that is about 800 miles east of Australia. I was very excited because our guidebook hailed Noumea as “the Paris of the Pacific.” hahahahahaha I […]
The Volcano at Port Resolution, Tanna, Vanuatu
October 23rd, 2010 · 2 Comments · Beautiful, Famous Firsts, Our Route, shoe-cruising, Shore Excursions, Vanuatu
Since we knew we would be staying in Fiji for so long, it was never in our original plans to go to Vanuatu. Yes, we had heard interesting things about it, but we just felt like we didn’t have enough time. But, as fortune would have it, we randomly ran into fellow cruisers S/V Victoria […]
Tags: Crazies and Wackos·Port Resolution·Tanna·volcano·Yasur
Fiji Highlight – Musket Cove
October 21st, 2010 · No Comments · Cruising with Friends, Debauchery, Fiji, Life on the Boat, shoe-cruising, Shore Excursions
Musket Cove has long been a cruiser’s haven in Fiji. Located on Manolo Island, MC offers a fairly calm mooring field, laundry, hot showers, a mini-market, bars, restaurants, and access to a resort pool. No trip to Fiji would be complete without some sort of resort relaxation, so we hung out at MC for a […]
Tags: Musket Cove
Fiji Highlight: Port Denerau
October 11th, 2010 · No Comments · Fiji, shoe-cruising
I know most people won’t understand this one – not even most of our fellow cruisers – but I will always think of Port Denerau fondly. Yes it is the land of “expensive” dining, cheap touristy souvenirs, overly eager adventure hawkers, sunburned and dazed brash, still-drunk co-eds heading back to Oz, and occasionally loud and […]
Tags: Denerau Marina·Nadi
Life on the dock
October 7th, 2010 · No Comments · Fiji, Introspection, Life on the Boat, Our Route, Random Thoughts, shoe-cruising, Words to Cling to
After the last few weeks of sailing all around, it is kind of nice to be tucked into the marina berths here at Port Denerau. Some of our other cruising friends scoff at the high prices of the restaurants here and another referred to this center of tourist madness as “Disneyland,” but I happen to […]
Tags: Denerau Marina·Nadi
Neiafu, Vava’u, Kingdom of Tonga – a break from the sea (sort of)
September 4th, 2010 · No Comments · Beautiful, Boat Work, Our Route, shoe-cruising, Tonga
Vava’u is beautiful. We arrived fairly late in the day, dropping anchor in the lingering moments after sunset in a small cove just shy of the main port of Neiafu. I woke up the next morning and instantly fell in love with Vava’u – birds singing and chirping, clear blue water, and lush green tropical […]
La La La La Cruz, Mexico (where we lived this past March :) )
August 5th, 2010 · 1 Comment · First Mates, Mexico, Preparing for the trip, shoe-cruising, The beginning
Finally good enough internet to upload and post videos!! Here’s some video we took of La Cruz, Mexico when we were there back in March of this year, prior to our crossing. Pay no attention to my horrible non-editing 🙂