Back in Canada
It has been one month since we arrived in Canada- back on land after more than five years of continuous cruising aboard the legendary Fata Morgana, a 38-foot Leopard catamaran built in South Africa. It feels like we just stepped out of a dream. A blue dream, filled with so many beautiful places and people. […]
A Day in Suva
. I remember the first time I heard the name Fiji, many years ago. Name of a country of tropical islands with extreme beauty somewhere on the other side of the world, in the middle of the Pacific, where rich people go on vacation. I was about Maya’s age, living in Bulgaria, dreaming about tropical […]
Passage from New Zealand to Minerva Reefs
. May 27, 2017. Our last morning in New Zealand. The boats in the anchorage are no longer here, the little island in the middle of the bay is missing and the trees on the hills of the shores are all gone, along with the hills and the shores. Nothing is left but Fata Morgana, […]
What are we going to do?
. The plan has changed. Again. It’s funny how cruisers change their plans all the time. Often when we ask fellow cruisers where they are going to be in February or when are they going to be on that island in Vanuatu, the answer is We have no idea. Often, you start for one place, […]
Road Trip in North Island
. Sometime in January we pack a tent and sleeping bags and contact a few people on CouchSurfing and some of our Bulgarian friends we met at the Christmas Camping celebration in Mangawhai, who live in various New Zealand cities. Svet and Dara kindly lend us their car called Rocky and we leave on a tour of […]
Christmas Camping in Mangawhai
Some of the campers in Mangawhai From Opua, where we spent our first couple of weeks in New Zealand and met the awesomest CouchSurfing host Willi, we sail south to Whangarei to meet Jordan and Gergana and their two boys Hristo and Boris. At Jordan and Gergana’s house They greet us like old friends, offering us warm […]
Exploring New Zealand’s Northland with Willi
. We arrive in Opua- a small boating community in beautiful Bay of Islands with a marina and a boatyard at the end of a deep bay, all sorts of marine shops, a yacht club and a restaurant and one small rather expensive grocery shop. . Checking in on a Saturday afternoon is as […]
Passage to New Zealand. Weather is King
. You will shut the doors, turn on the heater and watch from the window the lightning storm over the hills, sipping hot chocolate in your pajamas. The wind outside will howl while you watch TV inside. The rain will pound on the roof while you are falling asleep, glad it’s Saturday evening and you […]
Hina, my Beautiful Friend in Tonga
. Sailing to Tonga We met dolphins, almost run over a great big sea turtle resting on the surface of the sea, and landed a 6-kilogram dorado or mahi-mahi- two names for the same big ocean fish with beautiful golden-green skin and white delicate flesh. Our dinner for the next four days. . We crossed […]
Beveridge Reef and Niue
. All sailboats visiting Palmerston- four in total (three with Bulgarians aboard)- leave at the same time and head west. The wind looks favorable to sail to Niue, some 400 NM away, at least for the first couple of days. We sail together in a group keeping in touch on the VHF radio. Buddy-boating is always […]
