Na Kika Sailing – Just another cruising couple

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~they do move in herds~

~they do move in herds~

A couple of weeks moving from Komodo over to Bali

A couple of weeks moving from Komodo over to Bali with some of my favourite dorks in the world ❤️

In Saleh Bay we had the incredible opportunity to

In Saleh Bay we had the incredible opportunity to swim with the world's largest fish- whale sharks! It's an absolutely insane feeling to be next to these animals in the water. They were about 12 meters long but a lot more graceful than I'll ever be😅
Thanks a bunch to the guys at @go_whaleshark.sumbawa for an unforgettable day.

#whaleshark #cruisingindonesia #cruising #boatlife

Little Homage to what's easily the biggest and mos

Little Homage to what's easily the biggest and most delicious fish we've ever caught with our skimpy handline. One whopper of a spanish mackerel, that fed us for about a month. 🎣

#spanishmackerel #handlinefishing #cruising #boatlife

Mackay - Magnetic Island - Whitsundays - Cairns -

Mackay - Magnetic Island - Whitsundays - Cairns - Thursday Island - Torres Strait - Darwin
There's so much to see in Aus that there's no way we could have covered even half of what we wanted to do in two months. But we gave it our best shot and managed to find koalas, a dugong, hundreds of whales and dolphins, a kookaburra, crocodiles and even platypuses! We somehow never saw a kangaroo though, so Australia- we'll be back 🐊🦘🇦🇺

Some pictures from when we arrived in Australia. O

Some pictures from when we arrived in Australia. Obviously the first thing we did after a horrific passage from Vanuatu, was dive straight into deep Aussie culture by hitting the local pub raffle. Then we met up with linehandler Max from Panama, @sam.power.562 and our good friends from SV Oneiro for a cracking indian down in Brisbane, before boosting up the coat with Max, thankfully managing to dodge all the humpbacks as we went.

#boatlife #cruising #greatbarrierreef #xxxxbeer

Our last stop in Australia was Darwin, a real cowb

Our last stop in Australia was Darwin, a real cowboy city at the tippy top of Australia. And of course, you can't go to Darwin without dropping in for a jumping croc tour on the Adelaide river. Thank you Dillon for a fishing afternoon like no other! ❤️

#adelaidejumpingcrocodiletour #cruising #boatlife #darwin

All it takes is a big crater to prove that the cap

All it takes is a big crater to prove that the captain is just a big kid 🙂

#athertontablelands #hypipameenationalpark #cruising #boatlife

We're anchored off the coast of Australia, and got

We're anchored off the coast of Australia, and got a lovely little surprise visit from a humpback family this morning. Humpies fix the grumpies.

#humpbackwhale #cruising #boatlife #greatbarrierreef

We were lucky enough to catch one of the last land

We were lucky enough to catch one of the last land dives of the year on Pentecost. The leader of the area builds a tower, which young men jump off of with nothing but vines tied around their ankles. It goes back to a story in which a husband chased his wife up a palm tree, and she got away from him by jumping off with vines which stopped her hitting the ground. So originally the jumpers were all women, before missionaries decided it was too unladylike. All the local girls I talked to were pretty glad they didn't have to do it 😀

#landdiving #cruising #boatlife #vanuatu

Stop one in Vanuatu was Port Resolution, where we

Stop one in Vanuatu was Port Resolution, where we took a little hike up mount Yasur, a live volcano which brought us to our knees. Literally in my case, as I was too scared to stand on the edge and had to do a little wuss kneel to peek over the rim. Mount Yaaaasur Queen! 🌋

#volcano #cruising #boatlife #mountyasur

Quick little sail from Ambrym to Pentecost today,

Quick little sail from Ambrym to Pentecost today, we didn't drop beneath 9 knots the whole time- although it did cost us a block and a genoa batten. RIP.

It was starting to get cold, a sure sign that we h

It was starting to get cold, a sure sign that we had to move on. But before we sold the car, we managed to squeeze in another road trip around the north island to tick off the last few activities from our New Zeland list. Obviously this includes hobbiton, but also the Tongariro crossing and some more volcanic activity, 3 days of surfing and a whole lot of walking around in the woods with some of the biggest trees I've ever seen. We had a blast, thank you Aotearoa <3

We did a butt tonne of work on the boat while we w

We did a butt tonne of work on the boat while we were in New Zealand. The list includes:

Replacing the fire extinguishers
Installing a freezer
Stabilising all the railing stantions
Installing a washing machine
Mast and rigging check
Redid all the cables
Installed Ekrano and Multiplus
Got two new batteries
Got an asymmetrical spinnaker
Installed cockpit lighting
Sanded the hull and re-did our antifouling
Replaced water tank sensor
Fixed wind instruments with a new chip
Finally got Boran his Rocna
80m of new anchor chain
Got a new windlass motor
Installing 3 new shelves
Altering the lazy bag

The old girl has never looked so good!

On one of our last stops on the south island, we k

On one of our last stops on the south island, we kayaked up the coast of the Abel Tasman national park for two days and then hiked back to the car. Although the whole path is beautiful, a massive highlight was when we got lucky enough to meet a pod of bottle nose dolphins one morning. On top of that, we successfully guarded all our snacks against the crafty Weka birds, if you disregard a minor incident involving a tortilla.

We bought a car, drove south, the car broke down,

We bought a car, drove south, the car broke down, we found another car, caught the ferry, drove through the south island, and finally got to do some real New Zeland tramping on the Greenstone and Caples track. It took us 5 days and cost us 1kg of tuna and my walking boots, but it was totally worth it and we met a lot of new friends on the way. Shout out to Cat, Tom and Dan for teaching us Dutch and the importance of always carrying a stick.

#getyourselfagoat

Before Christmas we made the sail over to New Zeal

Before Christmas we made the sail over to New Zealand from Fiji. It was a bit of a beat into the waves but 10 days later we arrived in the beautiful bay of islands. First time in ages where we haven't had trade winds behind us and it was great to see that Na Kika can handle anything the weather throws at her. I wish I could say the same for Boran's internal thermometer.

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So all the sketchy weather has had us staying in F

So all the sketchy weather has had us staying in Fiji a little longer than expected, but what a place to be stuck! We've been hanging out on Viti levu with some boat buddies and alternating between sightseeing and hanging out at whichever pools have a good happy hour 🍹

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