Our Journey

There is a very noticeable difference in the swells today... much bigger:( We are in the real ocean now and no longer in the safer waters of the Malacca Straits. We are sailing next to the coast of the island of Simoleu.  Caden finds a butterfly far from land!   Brent has marked an anchorage on the plotter and we are going to try and spend the day here and have some fun!! Travis has already taken the cover off the duck and the weather is fine,fine,fine:) We slept well last night! We all slept in our bedrooms for the first time on this ocean voyage. ( or so I thought) The hatch above our room was open and every time I opened my eyes- I could see a magnificent starry night looking down on us! Brent decided to check on the children in the middle of the night to see that all was good. I was paranoid because a day into our sail from Puket to the island of Pipilee, We woke up to a thud in the night and found Caden lying on the floor of his cabin with a bloo...

Land is over there...  No it is over there.... Well we did not truly sail for very long before the wind dropped and took off to distant lands... ooh- I like motoring:) I can feel the yacht powering forward with determination to get to its destination-which by the way is an island called Simoleu. We should get there tomorrow at 7am. It is going to be so strange to be close to land again. I look forward to seeing yet another new place. I am dying to see white sands and pale blue transparent waters...     Searching for Land...      The island Asu-a dream come tru:) It is Tuesday the 14th of September 12.14pm. I had just gone to the bathroom when i heard the line of a rod singing the song of a " beeg" fish:) Pure excitement as the boat was brought to a complete holt and Brent reeled in with all his might...and then- a shark bit our fish and just its quivering big barracudda head was pulled onto the sugarscoop! It all happened so quickly-how ...

 Caden shooting for the Stars!  I can hardly remember yesterday that is how long each day is on the open seas. I do remember the absolutely beautiful sunset- again:) There was very little wind ( much to Brents disappointment as he is always rearing to do some real sailing instead of motoring:) ) I had a quick shower in the late afternoon and put on one of the little dresses I bought in Langkowi with our grocery money:) It is amazing how many items you can buy on sale in the supermarket when you are a little short on cash:) I tooks lots of photos trying to capture the sunset  as it set liquid gold and molten silver on the glassy smooth water to the right of Micah. And then to the left the sky clung mystically over the shadows and shapes of Japanese style landmasses and strange towering columns of clouds hung threateningly around us. What frightened Brent more though was the deep purple of the sky around the clouds... The purple sky looked like a giant bruise with a tempe...

I think that we are in Day 3 since we sailed out of Langkowi. This kind of sailing where money is not our primary objective, is so TIMELESS. None of us are wearing our watches and whenever I ask what the date or the time is, a variety of dates and times echo back to me.    Heading to the waves:)))   Todays sail has been in flat but choppy ocean. Not a little tweak on the lines UNTIL half an hour ago when Travis saw movement in the water and Caden truimphantly reeled in a beautiful yellowfin tuna:) he was so proud and made me photograph it from all angles. He just loves sushi and we have been so lucky to have a tuna sushi snack each day on this journey so far, since we left Langkowi. The power of positive thinking- Caden had asked Brent if we could have sushi today and Brent had said yes if we caught a tuna! Now I sit jotting this all down while keeping a beady eye on all the lines! I even pulled one in just now after convincing myself that there may be something on th...

Sunset smiles... Our highlights of yesterday  was for most of us, dragging behind Micah in the middle of the deep deep blue ocean:) The colour of the sea was an indescribable deep blue. I was too nervous (typical) to drag because if I let the rope go, it would take at least 15 minutes before they could bring Micah back around to pick me up and my theory Big Ocean-Big Sharks:)! Brent kindly stopped the boat for half an hour, so the children could cool down and also so that he could dive under the boat to check the annoids. Caden and I slipped into the inviting arms of the cool blue ocean... All the impatience and pending negativity, were instantly broken as we all laughed and relaxed...  Cally"s Cooling off Smile:)  I put goggles  on and looked under water... soooo deep, neverendingly deep with daggers of sharp light piercing into the depths of "nothingness and everythingness".... As the sun went down last night, we spotted a "fad" and we t...

  waves at sunset -Telos-Indonesia   The ocean was not nearly as glassy today as yesterday and the sun beat down on us. I fell asleep on the front of the boat in the narrow strip of shade from the mast, but the motion of the boat made me  have some delirious nightmares. By nightfall, the chop had increased as the currents whipped around us. We all slept in the saloon (except for Brent who has no problem sleeping in his bed which is right on the nose of the boat and has the most motion.) In the saloon, the leather couches are very comfortable as one feels the slamming of the swells under us-the least. I was nervous as I anticipated the worst! I imagined huge swells picking up to mountainous waves throwing our nose up to the evening star and then sharply down into the dark trough. Thank Goodness for Sleep:) Louie cooked us up a delicious dinner- bacon stirfry and rice.  Poor Caden-he felt wobbly and could not eat a morsel. Vince remembered that I had cooked some sag...

I let all the lines out again. This time I did not tighten the drag properly only to discover that all the line on the reel was nearly gone! Brent reeled it in and - wala! There was a tuna on the end! Right now, Caden is learning how to gut it:) The island of Asu in Nias. Mammas Silvis Island:)  Paradise! Caden has really been sponging up this experience. Yesterday he learnt how to tie a knot and how to tidy the lines up. He loves learning knew things! We are all (hopefully) going to come out of this experience having gained as much knowledge and experience as we want. This is proving to be an enriching experience for Cade. So far, Cody has not shown much interest in cleaning or sailing. mmm perhaps he will be more of a delegator. His comforts are KFC at Langkowi and the wii and dvds. Those are the comforts that are keeping Cody the happiest. Otherwise, he is here but his heart is not embedded yet in this adventure.Cally on the other hand has blossomed in looks as the...