Our Journey

Today has been a beautiful day! How can we be so luck? We are in the middle of the Indian Ocean sailing across the Straits of Mallacca, 20 nautical miles east of Sumatra. It is the busiest shipping lane in the the world and we -all 15 x9m of Micah- have to cross this expanse of water to get to surfing paradise-Indo. It is very busy. Huge bulky tankers charging and chugging stubbornly on their paths, leave us turning politely to starboard to stay clear of their razorsharp bows.The autopilot is causing havoc with our afternoon shade as it swerves us along in a zigzag path fighting against powerful currents.The meandering snail trails are all that is left to remind us of the cargo ships that have  passed. It must be about 6pm and the sun is setting to our right. It lures me temptingly with its golden arm as it links itself to our boat. I almost feel like stepping off the side and gliding across its fiery path on the waters surface, just to stay connected to its warm embrace and the ...

I cannot believe it... We are on our final leg of our long trip from Home to our Yacht Micah-which is patiently (or impatiently:) ) waiting for us to arrive... It has been an incredible journey for Us from the conception of this "courageous" idea  of ours, to this very point... Our house has been rented out for a year...the children have been taken out of their good schools...our bags are packed...our boat has spent months being sailed over from Durban to Phuket with a few hiccups on the way. Quick Thought: No Jabu to wash our clothes! Fears: What if we get sent back before we even get to our boat? I have always been extremely respectful of the ocean. I love to admire it from a distance and through the lens of the camera-capturing its awesome beauty from a safe distance:) And now...I am looking down at the vast ocean miles and miles of it...from our plane as we finally come to the last leg of our flight from Durban-Jhb-Singapore-Puket. The contours of the coast...