Category: Pacific Islands 2023

We finish our cruise soon, but there are 450 new customers who will be back in the Bay of Islands in two […]

Our very final sea day is quiet – in fact so quiet one might question if even 100 customers are onboard, let […]

Middle sea day in this final batch. By all accounts a very quiet day, the deck seems virtually empty, at breakfast we […]

The first of three sea days that get us almost to the end of our cruise. We have only one more port […]

Sailing into Vava’u is a bit like the approach to Stockholm which also has an archipelago. We slowly pass many islands, our […]

It’s going to be hard to sell Tonga’s capital Nuku’alofi. First off the warship which refused to let us in yesterday also […]

Overnight we lost a day and have jumped from Tuesday to Thursday.  Today was always going to be a sea day. A […]

We should be in Niue, a tiny coral island in the middle of nowhere approx 19S, 170W. Unfortunately it is impossible to […]

At sea once again, not just us, so is the boat building competition too.  Before then we do lots of deck walking, […]

This larger island contains 11,000 of the entire chain’s 15,000 inhabitants and is a very popular holiday destination. We decide to take it […]