Blue Sky: SailBlogs

South Indian Ocean

Jim Mather — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 05:17:15 -0500

The photo is Blue Sky rounding the northern tip of Madagascar, Cape d'Ambre. This is a very rare calm here! (Continued...)

South East Asia

Jim Mather — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 19:16:20 -0600

We are back in the Talaga Marina on the main island of Langkawi, Malaysia. We have spent the last three months cruising southern Thailand. We visited the Thai islands south of Phuket, working our way up into Phang Nga Bay. There we stopped off in the Krabi area before rounding the bottom of Phuket Island and enjoying the west coast and getting out to the amazing Similan Islands. The Similan Islands have the clearest water in South East Asia. The children swam with turtles in amongst coral and tropical fish. (Continued...)

Rebak Marina and Resort

Jim — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 20:36:56 -0500

Emma, Phoebe & Drake had a world circumnavigation by air. They left Malaysia in July for a 6 week holiday. They first flew to the US, landing at LAX. They were met for the transfer from International terminal to the domestic by the entire Morgan family, Peterdog & Pam! They had a couple of hours together before Emma and the children boarded a flight to Tucson. There they relaxed with Grandma and Grandpa Byrne-Quinn. My family including all three sisters then made the trip from their home to Tucson for a few days of BBQ's, Mexican food, site seeing and golf. Emma and the children then flew back to Redondo Beach and had four days of fun visiting friends and neighbors. The Port Royal Yacht Club hosted one evening where friends from all over Southern California could converge for an evening of fun! After a fantastic few days, they boarded another flight for London. There they were joined again with Emma's parents. They spent a few days in London site seeing and staying with Emma's sister Sarah. They then boarded another flight up to Inverness, Scotland. There they headed to Emma's cousin, Ted's wedding. They had a plenty of time to enjoy the scenery and it reminded them of our time in New Zealand. Once back to London they boarded a direct flight from London to Kuala Lumpur. One more quick flight from there to Langkawi and a ferry ride out to our island marina and they had completed their first circumnavigation. (Continued...)