Many people have asked us for our complete world route. Sailblogs only displays a small section of our voyage when you click on ''Current Position". However if you download Google Earth you can see an accurate track of our circumnavigation. The flat map shown in this photo is not very accurate but does show our route.
I am busy working with my editor on my book which I hope will be published this year. In the meantime a couple of articles will be published in Australian yachting magazine Cruising Helmsman. I will let you know which issue!
Bill has been living on board Valiam in the rain these past few weeks whilst I enjoyed a girls holiday in Bali. We have decided to move back into our house at Easter but plan to take Valiam out on short trips until we can once again go cruising indefinitely.
I have also added other yachts with websites we met along the way. Dagmar is currently in Galapagos. (James was one of our line handlers transiting the Panama canal). Bisacyane Bay we met in Suwarrow. Sadly Garry and Lisa lost their yacht in Pago Pago in the tsunami. But they have their lives so they are more fortunate than some. Their story in in the current Cruising Helmsman magazine as well as on their website. Our story "A Route Less Travelled" will be published in the Cruising Helmsman in the near future. Here we describe our decision to sail to PNG, Palau, Philippines and Malaysia after leaving so late from Australia (end November). It is an alternative route to Cocos rather than via Darwin if wanting to avoid the cyclone season.
If you have any questions about our voyage you can email us on:
valiam1@hotmail.com
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It's great to be back 'home' enjoying our own space, our own bed and back doing the usual - the dishes, checking the batteries, rowing ashore and best of all listening to the waves and the wind.
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Above : My first cuddle with Tahlia Lily Rose. Caylan is so proud to be a big sister!
Yesterday Tahlia Lily Rose entered the world weighing in at 8lb 6oz at Townsville Birth Centre, QLD, Australia. We have been waiting for her arrival since we came to stay with our daughter Vashti and family before Christmas. She is absolutely adorable and the most beautiful baby in the world of course. (The names Lily Rose are those of Bill's grandmother. )We first heard the news that we were to have another grandchild when we were on passage from Grenada to Bonaire by satellite email. We then knew we had made the right decision to come home in time!
Now we have to tear ourselves away and begin driving the campervan down to Mooloolaba. We will then move back on board Valiam. I do miss her! The plan is to renovate our house to let it for the best price so we can go cruising again.
( I have also written the first quarter of my book of our voyage. My editor will be busy when I return to Mooloolaba!)
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