12 April 2024 | We are back aboard Tregoning in Mersin Marina, Mersin, Türkiye
02 April 2024 | We are in Toronto Airport, Canada: Tregoning is in Mersin Marina, Mersin, Türkiye
25 February 2024 | We are back in Gainesville, FL: Tregoning is in Mersin Marina, Mersin, Türkiye
18 February 2024 | We are in Glenwood, New Mexico: Tregoning is in Mersin Marina, Mersin, Türkiye
12 February 2024 | We are in Morro Bay, California: Tregoning is in Mersin Marina, Mersin, Türkiye
19 January 2024 | We are in Vancouver, BC Canada: Tregoning is in Mersin Marina, Mersin, Türkiye
01 January 2024 | We are in Washington State: Tregoning is in Mersin Marina, Mersin, Türkiye
15 December 2023 | We are in Minnesota: Tregoning is in Mersin Marina, Mersin, Türkiye
18 November 2023 | We are in Florida: Tregoning is in Mersin Marina, Mersin, Türkiye
29 October 2023 | We're in Florida - Tregoning is at B-dock, Mersin Marina, Mersin, Türkiye
21 October 2023 | 7 Oda Kapadokya Cave Hotel, Ürgüp, Türkiye
14 October 2023 | Hotel Aşikoğlu, Boğazkale, Türkiye
07 October 2023 | B-dock, Mersin Marina, Mersin, Türkiye
19 September 2023 | “Chez Jon & Angela”, Near Otterton, Devon, UK
14 September 2023 | Airbnb in Fortuneswell on the Isle of Portland, Dorset, UK
11 September 2023 | With Mike, Grange-over-Sands, Cumbria, UK
03 September 2023 | Ardington House, Ardington, Oxfordshire, UK
24 August 2023 | Near "Chez Joan and Peter", College of Roseisle, Moray, Scotland
11 August 2023 | Andrew's house (not exactly), Lichfield, UK
22 July 2023 | Chez Gail, near the New York Café, Budapest, Hungary
Tifu Update
10 August 2022 | Tifu Village, south Pulau Buru, Indonesia
Alison Stocker | Photo: Dock and anchorage seen from Tifu Village
After a rather uninspiring motor-sail from Ambon to the south side of Pulua Buru with rain for much of the night, we arrived on Tuesday morning (9th August) off Tifu Village. Or so we had to trust from the chart as we could not see any sign of nearby habitation along the steep, forest-clad shoreline. We cautiously entered an almost invisible narrow channel and found ourselves in the most delightful bay completely protected from the ocean. Thirteen rally boats were already anchored but there was still plenty of room for us. As Carl on SV Tamina said, we had not seen any anchorage quite this cozy and enchanting with hills all around it since the Marquesas Islands. It was a bigger, inhabited version of Fame Cove in Port Stephens, NSW.
From Tifu Village surrounding the head of the bay and at the base of a steep hill, we could hear the welcome festivities for the other boats which had arrived a day or two before us. We were too tired to go ashore immediately. While my health was certainly improving after the nasty cold, I was still feeling pretty lethargic much of the time. With gloriously calm water and no rolling, this could have been a good place to rest and fully recover.
Instead, we signed-up to go on an inland tour to see sunrise on Morafi Hill on Tuesday, which required meeting onshore at 4 am. Luckily it was a spectacularly sunny day helping to make it a very memorable trip, but it was certainly not restful. But more of that and the lengthy farewell festivities in a future posting.