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Screenshot Once we left Melbourne we stopped in Tazmania, and then sailed west(.net), and we are still sailing west 3 days later.  Even though we have been here several times, I didn’t realize just haw big Australia is.  It’s as big as the continental US.  Crazy.  At...

We are in Australia, the land down under.  And now we are in Melbourne, the very south point of Australia.  So, we are, down under in the down under.  We arrived in Melbourne at noon, it’s kind of like Portland in that we took on a pilot at 8 this morning and wondered...

We were scheduled to leave Sydney harbor at 4, but there was a medical emergency involving a crew member and we didn’t leave until a little after 5.  We later found out that it was Samuel.  Samuel is the wonderful voice you hear when you order room...

What a difference a day makes. No, an hour makes. Yesterday was so rough that I actually got a headache and queasy stomach.  Then at about 4 pm the seas calmed, just like that.  When we got up this morning, it was already 68 degrees.  This is wonderful.  Well,...

As we travel through the South Island of New Zealand, it just keeps getting colder and wetter.  A few years ago, I said that New Zealand is very much like the Northwest.   Well, it really is.  Rainy and cold. It's also Latitude 46 degrees South, at home, we are 46...

We were in Auckland for 2 days.  Nation LA to Tahiti Tahiti to Auckland Australia 13 23Austria 2 0Belgium 8 5Bulgaria 3 3Canada 34 34Denmark 3 3France 2 0Germany 12 16Ireland 5 5Netherlands 6 7New Zeland 4 10Norway 2 2Sweden 2 2Switzerland 6 6United Kingdom 36...