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LONG WHITE CLOUD
Paula and Stephen Pepperell sail the world on their 45' Herreshoff mobjack Ketch 'LONG WHITE CLOUD'. Over the past six years. Long White Cloud has proven to be a fast yet comfortable cruising yacht and is custom built of New Zealand Kauri.
Being a bit slack...
Paula
10/10/09, Vava'u, Tonga

If anyone has been looking for updates on this blog and noticed that it hasn't been happening very regularly it's because we are having way too much fun. The internet is only available in Neiafu and we are only 'in town' briefly, to race in the Friday night race (came in 2nd last night) and to provision, spending most of our time out in the outer islands.


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Tsunami
Paula
05/10/09, Port Maurelle, Vava'u, Tonga

The tsunami had a less devastating effect for us than in Niue Toputapu. We were warned 10 minutes before hand and didn't really take the warning seriously. We did however drop our mooring and meandered out into the deeper water, then watched as the beach became a waterfall and disappeared every 2 to 3 minutes over the next hour or so. This photo is of the beach in Port Maurelle if you know it, you would know that this reef is never uncovered.


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Whale
Paula
03/10/09, Vava'u, Tonga

Rather a shaky photo, but this whale was breaching right next to the boat. One second later would have been a better photo to catch the barrel roll he did before crashing back into the water.



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