The weather in New Zealand is quite cold at the moment. I really dig it. The wet and cold city makes me feel like I’m back in Finland. This morning I decided to walk to the fish market but ended up to a totally different kind of market. More about that in the near future…
“You do know that you are not suppose to take photos of the pages. The library loses millions of dollars every year because people use cameras. You have to use the photocopier over there.”
I was speechless for a while. I looked again the page I was taking a photo of. Then I looked at the [...]
Maybe around 6 weeks all around French Polynesia was quite the adventure. So to put the experience in few paragraphs here is how it all more or less went down.
Arriving to Marquesas Island of Fatu Hiva having just suffered some set backs with health was quite the experience. Amazing landscape and friendly people all around. [...]
Staying in Tahiti for further notice. There are waves, mountains and cheap bread.
The past weeks I spend with boys from South Africa. It was a privilege to motor with them around French Polynesia.
Now I hopped of from their boat. After 4 months it’s nice to be facing the future with uncertainty. I do love that [...]
- 3000 sea miles (Galapagos-French Polynesia)
- blood poisoning in the middle of the Pacific? (red stripes from middle finger to my armpit)
- paradise (Fatu Hiva)
- going to Tahiti with a sailboat without a mast (next)
(I know french lines are the biggest NONO of blogging but I´m in a hurry and this is French Polynesia and [...]
We´re off to Marqueses tonight. The sail should take around 4 weeks. So that is probably the next time you´ll hear from me.
If you like following a dot on a map ;)
http://www.winlink.org/dotnet/maps/PositionReportsDetail.aspx?callsign=KL2VC
Keep the world in one piece while I´m away. Thanks!
Peace!
Lately I´ve been trying to really concentrate on getting the right exposure and also frame my shots more carefully.
My longest lens is fixed 100mm f/2.0 (meaning I don´t have x10 zoom). To get the idea of this lens just extend your arm straigh forward and spread your fingers as far a part as you can. [...]
So some of you might have checked our boats position (link in previous post). We hit the ground but not exactly where we thought it would happen.
Our current location: Buenaventura, Colombia.
We were advancing nicely but too strong winds (25-30 knots) straight in our face made going forward too difficult. Big storm was passing through Galapagos [...]
I’m off. So the idea is to sail to the Pacific and see what happens. With Nina and Flo I’ll get to Marques islands in French Polynesia. After a stop at the Galapagos it will be a month of sailing before seing land. From Marques I have to find another boat to hopefully go further [...]
I haven’t done this in a long while. I woke up early in the morning and went to take some photos.
Bird photography
