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North to Cavalli Islands and Whangaroa Bay

January 8, 2026

When your Kiwi friends tell you not to miss the Cavalli Islands and Whangaroa Bay, you listen. So…

It’s Good

December 28, 2025

It’s official—our TikTok channel, if we ever had one (which we won’t), would be called Ice Cream Around…

I’ve Missed You

December 18, 2025

Hi, it’s me. Sorry I haven’t called. It’s so unlike us not to talk at least five times…

E aroha ana ahau ki a koe

November 27, 2025

Week 1 We were full of energy and happy to be back. Gerty was not even a little…

Pétanque Boules

October 26, 2025

If I were Queen of France for a day, I would toss aside my cumbersome gown in Paris,…

The Luxury of Time

October 10, 2025

Gerty is resting in the Raiatea boatyard, waiting patiently for her captains to return.“Soon,” I whispered this morning…

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

- Mark Twain -

Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!”

- Hunter S. Thompson -

Life’s like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending.

- Jim Henson -

I cannot remember the books I’ve read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson -

If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine, it’s lethal.

- Paulo Coelho -

Everything will be alright in the end … If it’s not alright, then it’s not yet the end.

- Sonny Kapoor -

A ship is always safe at the shore – but that is NOT what it is built for.

- Albert Einstein -

I intend to live forever, or die trying.

- Groucho Marx -