Archive for June, 2010

On towards Solomon Islands

With the cyclone season upon us, the stay in Luganville had taken a little too long (due to spending a lot of time trying to find and order a satellite phone) for allowing one more stop in Vanuatu.  So, went by the offices, paid my dues, got all the stamps, and will be leaving tomorrow […]

Another feature added

Alright, so I have been doing some more web stuff. There is a now a way to export Morning Light’s tracks into Google Earth. This is done from an exports page.
Also, I have uploaded a few more Google Earth tracks to the KML folder, you can now browse the contents of the KML […]

Million Dollar Point

This is an interesting dive site here, not too far from Luganville. During World War II the allied troops where brought into Vanuatu, since an attack from the Japanese was expected (the Japanese had already occupied the Solomon Islands). Vanuata was never attacked, but for a long time many of the islands had military bases.
During […]

Cruising Vanuatu

Not really doing much cruising here, just making my way north.  Left Wednesday morning, at first there was decent winds, then the wind disappeared for a while, but just when I was motoring to an anchorage the wind came back, and I decided to keep going.  Was sailing between some islands and headed for Ambrym.  […]

Moving on

Well, never even made it to the music festival, unbelievable, but, guess I was just hanging out with the wrong people. It wasn’t as close as I thought it would be, that never helps (aren’t we all lazy by nature).
Had a scare Friday night. Came back from a pretty wild night, had all […]