Lessons from 7 Months & 2,300 NM Cruising Australia

24 Oct 2018
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We arrived in Coffs Harbour on December 4th, 2017 and left Thursday Island on July 21, 2018. That’s over 7 months cruising Australia, the longest Starry Horizons has been in any one country in one go. We traveled 2,300 nm on the east coast and spent 6 weeks traveling inside...
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Visiting the Emergency Room in Labuan Bajo

20 Oct 2018
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Indonesia seems to be hitting the cruisers rather hard.  While many have come down with occasional cases of “Bali belly”, others have had more serious issues.  I woke up one morning in Pasarwajo with some troubling symptoms – not debilitating, but concerning....
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7 Days with Komodo Dragons & Manta Rays in Indonesia

06 Oct 2018
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One of the highlights of our entire time in Indonesia was coming to Komodo National Park to see the wildlife.  This park is much more prestine than other places we’ve been and we enjoyed it so much. Table of Contents - Click to Jump About Flores and Komodo National...
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Exploring Indonesian Food in Buton Cook Class and Market

27 Sep 2018
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The Wonderful Sail 2 Indonesia Rally stopped in Pasarwajo, a small village on the island of Buton.  This would be one of our big stops thanks to the Festival Pesona Indonesia Budaya Tua Buton, but the festival was not just one day!  Two days before the grand party, our local...
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Festival Pesona Indonesia Budaya Tua Buton

08 Sep 2018
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The highlight of our rally so far has been attending the Festival Pesona Indonesia Budaya Tua Buton (Buton’s Festival of Traditional Culture) in Pasarwajo in the Buton Regency.  Pesona Indonesia, the Indonesian tourism board, holds the Pesona Indonesia festivals around the...
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Make Banda Pancakes at Home!

05 Sep 2018
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While spending time in Banda, Indonesia, we dined at the Delfika Cafe and really enjoyed the food.  We ate typical Indonesian dishes like nasi goreng and mie goreng, but we really enjoyed our Banda pancakes….well, actually we really enjoyed Carlos’ Banda pancakes...
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Hoga Island, Wakatobi National Park

01 Sep 2018
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After spending 5 nights in Banda exploring the Spice Islands and diving we took off for a 375 nm sail to Hoga Island, a small island in the Wakatobi National Park in South Sulawesi, Indonesia.  Wakatobi is a portmanteau (a new word for me!) of the four main islands in th...
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How to Read Hundreds of Books While Traveling (Mostly Free)

22 Aug 2018
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When you can do (almost) anything you want every day, what do you spend your time doing? For me, the answer is reading.  From a young age, my mom read us books like Little House on the Praire, A Wrinkle in Time, Redwall, and Narnia.   But reading as an adult is hard; before...
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Banda Neira, Indonesia – the Spice Islands

18 Aug 2018
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After a leisurely time in Walir, we made our way over to Banda Neira, the second stop for the rally. We’d spent so long in Walir that most of the rally boats had left. That was just fine with us. Table of Contents - Click to Jump Docking in Banda NeiraHistory of...
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