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2001 New Years Eve celebrated aboard
AMALTHEA in Whangerei harbour, New Zealand. Tom and Nancy of EQUINOX pipe in the new year
while Paula digs into New Zealands favourite desert, Pavlova. |
Milan and Adrian of AMALTHEA during one of
our beach tramps in the Hapas'ai Group of Tonga. |
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Paula with Edi and Almuth of SINGLE MALT at
the Abel Tasman commemorative plaque on Tongatapu. |
Cyn and Bob of TUCUMCARI with Paula standing
by a turtle tiki at an archeological site on Hiva Oa, Marquesas |
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Wayne and Sally of ION |
Julie and Glenn of C'EST ASSEZ |
Couldn't
resist a photo of Ronald MacDonald in Tahitian dress. He stands at the entrance to the
Papeete MacDonald's. |
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Matt and Debie of AEVENTYR were our cruising
buddies to Isla Guadeloupe to barter for lobster with the local Mexican fishermen. |
Bill and Shelley of WOLF WILLOW, fellow
Canadians, walking along the crest of a dune in Morro Bay |
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The Peters family: Josh, Cathy, Allan, Lydia
and Joanna. Fellow Canadians of MORNING posing on the marina dock at Barra de Navidad,
Mexico. |
Cruising kids from NEW ADVENTURE, LOAFER, MORNING at a Paradise Village hot tub |
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Friends from PO'OINO and LOAFER
come to say goodbye the day we left Mexico for the Marquesas. PO'OINO stayed behind in
Mexico, LOAFER followed across the Pacific a few weeks later. |
YEHUDI with Sarah and Mike motoring with us
on the way to Isla Partida and the Y2K kickoff beach party. |
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TRIUMPH with George, Tish and Toby, flying a
chute on the way between Ua Pou and Raroia, French Polynesia. TRIUMPH is a large trimaran. |
SCALDIS with Richard, Marcie and Loren on
the same passage between Ua Pou and Raroia. SCALDIS is a 50 foot steel ketch built in
Germany in the 1930's. |
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Gary of NEW ADVENTURE having a relaxing
afternoon at the dock in Paradise Village. |
ALONS'Y with Larry and Lena aboard motoring
out of Paradise Village on the start of their Pacific crossing to the Marquesas. |
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AMAZON 1 at anchor off Punta Mita, Mexico.
We enjoyed our last sundowner in Mexico with Dieter
and Hildegarde. The next morning we raised anchor and sailed accross the Pacific to French
Polynesia. |
Kareka of Makemo. A lovely teenager from the
island of Makemo in the Tuamotus. Great hat too. We visited her family pearl farm in
company with the crew from TRIUMPH. |