SAILING the BLUEWATER of New Caledonia - Ep 69

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Sailing the bluewater of New Caledonia
Where there is water there is life. We love sailing the clear turquoise blue water of the lagoon In New Caledonia, which are teeming with sea creatures. The many islets that surround Noumea are nature reserves. No harm will befall the turtles that swim in these waters, so they have become very chilled and accepting of human attention. We enjoyed checking out the reef sharks and abundance of sea snakes that make Amedee Island their home. We even spot a funny new turtle.
Rob also proves he doesn’t just eat plankton and noni sandwiches. In this episode he tucks into a delicious chocolate éclair, a treat for the palaver that was checking out of Noumea customs. Did anyone say Passport!

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Music
Luna Keller – I don’t know where I’m going
Kylie Odetta – Only gets better – Musicbed
Chptrs – Obvious instrumental – Musicbed
Ellie Schmidly – There is more – Musibed
David Mumford – Ball and chain – Creative Commons

WHO ARE WE?
In 1997, after a disastrous Olympic rowing campaign, Rob decided to row a seven-metre plywood boat, 2500 miles from Tenerife in the Canary Islands to Barbados in the Caribbean. It took 6 weeks and he and his rowing partner, Phil Stubbs, won the inaugural Atlantic Rowing Race.
Skip forward to 2014, we invested in Javelot a 43 ft Fountaine Pajot catamaran. Armed only with Robert’s 3 years of racing P class yachts from the age of 11 to 13, and Rachel’s non existent sailing knowledge, we set off to learn the ropes of ocean sailing. We broke stuff, replaced stuff and got to know our boat before heading offshore with our three children, Finn 17, Declan 15 and Ivan 12, in tow.
Through trial and error, we have become confident wayfarers, kind of.
Our plan? To sail around the world, meet the locals and record our adventures. Learning the art of photography and editing as we go.
Part of the journey will be retracing Rob’s eldest brother Kerry’s travels at sea. Using Kerry’s original letters from the 1970’s we will re trace his movements from Australia through Indonesia and South East Asia to Cambodia where Kerry’s life was cut short after straying into Cambodian waters in 1978. Kerry and two friends were attacked by a Khmer Rouge gun boat, captured, tortured and executed.

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