The Île des Pins, or Isle of Pines, is an island located in the archipelago of New Caledonia, a territory of France. The capital of New Caledonia, Noumea, is on the main island, but the Isle of Pines is located two and a half hours via ferry from Noumea. While Noumea is certainly small for…
Kyle really wanted to do a tour to Nokanhui Atoll, and with it being one of the top 5 things to do in the Isle of Pines, New Caledonia, we readily agreed. We booked a trip through Nuuana Sarl, who arranged transport to Vao for us to meet the boat. We climbed onboard and took off! Meeting…
We exited the Panama Canal on March 10th, 2016 and we arrived in Australia in December of 2017. That’s 21 MONTHS sailing the South Pacific! Cruising the South Pacific is amazing. When we look at the 24 countries we’ve visited on Starry Horizons, the island nations in the South Pacific clearly dominate our favorites. We’ve…
Friday night the weather was forecasted to be fairly clear, and thankfully it held out for us because we were booked in to do the biggest attraction on Tanna Island – the erupting Mount Yasur volcano! At 3 pm, 15 cruisers met at PRYC and piled into two trucks to start the tour. Black Sand…
Vanuatu is one of the lesser-touristed countries in the South Pacific. We had originally planned to spend a few weeks there, but instead found ourselves only spending a few days. Thankfully, though, we decided to spend those few days on Tanna Island, doing one of Vanuatu’s most popular attractions – the Yasur Volcano. Where is…
While traveling through the islands of the South Pacific, we were moving from Fiji to Port Resolution on Tanna Island, where there was not an ATM available. We needed cash to be able to clear formalities and pay for things in Port Resolution, so for the first time in my life, I went to use…
April 30, 2017 – Seattle, Washington This is the presentation we gave at my Grandma’s retirement community in Bellevue, WA on April 30, 2017, covering the first half of our sailing circumnavigation. We cover a lot of topics from how we got started and the basics of Starry Horizons all the way to some of…
With our departure from Fiji this week, we conclude four and a half months sailing Fiji over two seasons. Our first visit was in 2016 for six weeks, where we hung out in Savusavu, one of my favorite cruising ports in the South Pacific, did some amazing hiking based in Suva, popped down to…