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Update
#29 - Indo-China, Oct '08
Thailand,
Laos, Vietnam & Cambodia
The
Jesingers have achieved their ultimate ambition of retiring early to take
to the high seas for some serious blue water cruising. We can afford to
take our time and have been lucky in acquiring Amoenitas, a superb, high
performance, ocean cruiser capable of carrying us in comfort anywhere we
choose to venture. On 5th July '99 we set sail from England on a tradewind
circumnavigation which we thought might extend for around ten years. It
now looks as though we are going to be late back!
.
Plain of Jars, Phonesavan,
Laos (2nd August '08)
In 1999 we made our way to
the Caribbean via the Iberian peninsula, Gibraltar and the Atlantic
Islands of the Madeiras and Canaries. During 2000 we explored the
Caribbean Windward and Leeward Island chains before heading south to
Venezuela for our first hurricane season. After refitting in Trinidad we
headed north to Cuba via the Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico and the Dominican
Republic. We returned to Trinidad again that August to refit, before
setting sail along the Venezuelan coast via Colombia to the San Blas
Islands of Panama and the Canal.
We transited the Panama
Canal in Feb '02 calling at the Perlas Islands on the way to the
Galapagos. From there it was a 3000nm crossing of the South Pacific to the
French Polynesian island groups of Marquesas, Tuamotos & Societies,
followed by the Cooks and Minerva Reef to New Zealand. In 2003 we spent 6
months cruising Fiji, four of them in the magical eastern Lau Group before
returning to New Zealand for the cyclone season. The following year saw us
off on a 4,148nm (7,682Km) arc starting in the south of the Tongan chain,
up through to Samoa and back to NZ again via Wallis Island and Fiji.
Our third passage from New
Zealand in 2005 took us via Fiji to Vanuatu and on to Australia where we
spent two years touring by boat and car. In April of 2007 we left Brisbane
for Darwin and in July crossed to Kupang in Indonesia where we spent three
months transiting that huge archipelago, arriving at Singapore in October.
Then we made our way up the west of the Malay Peninsula to Phuket in
Thailand, returning in March '08 to Rebak Marina off Langkawi in Malaysia
for the SW monsoon season. During this period we spent 2mths in England,
2mths in New Zealand and 8 weeks touring Indo-China.
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