What do you get when you join two volcanoes together in the middle of a freshwater lake? A fairytale beautiful island called Ometepe! Tour the island by motorbike with us, as we meet some of the locals, get up close and personal with some wildlife and li...
It’s officially the start of our 3RD YEAR CRUISING! And like always, our plans are ever changing… After a long passage to arrive in Central America, we decide to make an UNPLANNED stop and check-in to NICARAGUA! Scrambling, we hand-make a courtesy f...
The tropics aren’t all sunshine and calm seas… Offshore from Central America we sail through some crazy lightning storms, rain squalls, and then have dead calm periods in between. Even calm enough for us to jump in and go spear fishing in the middle o...
Off the coast of Central America, we find a juvenile Hawksbill Sea Turtle, badly tangled in plastic debris. When we jump in, we are amazed at the amount of sea life this floating debris has attracted (hundreds of small fish, a large school of dorado and a...
Beginning our longest passage to date, we set out for a 1300 mile sail from Mexico to Central America. What seems like a trying ocean passage quickly becomes a unique experience that can only be had on a sailboat. We get becalmed, adrift at sea 100 miles ...
While on our own adventure around the world, it's always great to meet other travelers and hear their stories. Celeste Byers is a traveling artist and muralist, who has done work all over the world. We catch up with Celeste in Zihuatanejo, Mexico while s...
Finally!! The day had come! After 1.5 years in Mexico, it’s time to go through all the formalities of checking out - complete with an inspection by Customs, document checks and paperwork from Immigration, and obtaining the all-important Zarpe from the P...
What’s life all about in Zihuatanejo, Mexico?! Come experience some awesome local street music, food and dancing! Ever wonder what the doctor’s like? Well come visit the local dermatologist in town! We also take our sewing machine in for a service,...
This is the real life sailing around the world - a broken dinghy, broken motor and lost oar… The good news is, we have family in town for a visit, bad news… we’re struck on the boat with no transport! Come find out how we finally get to town and sea...
Are we still sane after 5 weeks away from land?! Come join us on a passage as we almost run out of food, dodge container ships, fix broken sails enroute, host some local wildlife and make landfall for the first time in over a month!
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At one of the top dive sites in the world, we have an amazing encounter with a very friendly giant manta, and then get chased out of the water by sharks! Sailing to this incredible place is the experience of a lifetime, come along for our sail from Isla S...
What are we doing for Hurricane season in the Eastern Pacific? Watch our real time update from Zihuatanejo to announce we are switching our weekly episodes to Mondays briefly lay out some of our plans going forward over the summer. How do you avoid lightn...
Hundreds of miles offshore the Mexican coast lie a group of remote islands, have you heard of them? The Revillagigegos are volcanic islands home to sharks, manta rays, turtles, dolphins and so many fish! Sailing to Soccoro, we go jump in the water with t...
Would you get in the water here? Hundreds of miles offshore from Mexico lie a group of islands home to Giant Manta Rays, hundreds of sharks, and daunting volcanoes.
Anchored at San Benedicto Island in the Revillagigedos Archipelago, we go out for some wo...
What is your adventure? How you can embrace being uncomfortable and push your boundaries to live differently, you can see the world now!
We sit down and talk with Clif and Giselle aboard their Hans Christian sailboat in La Cruz, Mexico before they set of...
Climbing up the mast while underway, breaking our whisker pole in half while sailing down wind, and even doing a man overboard drill under sail to rescue a lost hat… This week’s episode is packed full of excitement! All while undersail as we say goodb...
We get up close and personal with one of the most incredible places we have ever seen - the hidden, endless mangrove forests of Magdalena Bay in Baja Mexico. Creating a world all their own, these mangroves forests are incredibly rich and full of life, fro...
Small fishing towns located in a place rich with natural beauty and wildlife are trying to make a change and develop an ecotourism industry. Here, in the waters off Mexico’s Pacific Baja coast, hundreds of Grey Whales come to give birth in the protect l...
Ready to see what this place is really about? Rewind to a time where everyone knows each other, people wave when you walk down the street, there are no chain stores. This is Puerto San Carlos, a small fishing community in Baja California Sur, Mexico. We...
Seriously - this place is AMAZING! We go into uncharted territory, sailing up beyond Magdalena Bay to a land of lush green mangrove channels, giant white sand dunes and amazing wildlife. It doesn’t get better than this - smooth sailing, epic SUP paddle...
Sailing on our own terms, we go against the normal cruising route and continue our sailing passage north, heading up the Baja California peninsula. We sail close hauled and try to keep the actual bashing to the minimum, tacking our way up the coast. We a...
We prepare to set off across the sea, leaving behind the island of birds for the open ocean, fish on the line and an epic good time. Come join us on board Varuna, as we go against the grain, and travel north in Pacific Mexico, using the wind to go off the...
On a deserted beach in Baja, Mexico amongst sand dunes, dolphin skeletons and sea shells we find a message in a bottle washed up on shore! Who was it from? What was the message? Watch to find out!
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Picking up a new crew member in Puerto Vallarta, we set out with friends to escape the craziness of the city to the island of birds, AKA Isla Isabel, or Mexico’s Galapagos. We have quite the interesting sailing passage, with challenging headwinds, engin...
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