Our Journey

Right now, I think that I may have died AND gone to HEAVEN:) I am experiencing decadence:)) A steaming hot bath in the perfect Thai hotel!! All the children are out of the room and I feel peace almost ZENLIKE! This is my first bath since we left South Africa 27th August 2010 and today is the 12th Dec!  We are so sad...Charl and Darren are leaving us tomorrow! This morning we all packed. I squeezed a few extra kilos of excess clothes into their luggage as I brought toooo many clothes on the yacht! Not once have I needed all the jeans, jackets and jerseys that I packed! It has been wonderful having them with us! We have laughed so much and just had lots of fun! Charl having a dance at the Hotel In a few weeks the Palmers are joining us for the New Year! Lucky lucky us:) I could not ask for a nicer family to sail with us:) We are going to sail around Phuket with them.  We are staying for 2 nights  at this hotel. I can feel we are in Thailand as our rooms ar...

 Me at Starbucks in Patong:)  It is 8am and we have woken up to our 2nd day in Boat Lagoon Marina in Phuket Thailand . I am still doing my blogs on our journey through Indo but have decided to also do recent blogs in between our Indo adventure or you will only be hearing our recent stories half way through next year:)).   Sharyn having a zombie  It is drizzling outside and when I went out just now to bring all the linen in  that I had hung up to dry on the boats rigging for the night, I saw that our boat was quietly being moved forward on our jetty by the local  marine staff. It just shows:) We could be stolen in Micah by Thai pirates and we would not even know until we woke up! I woke Brent up and we watched to see what type of boat would be moored behind us in this very tightly jammed marina.  Au Chalong anchorage in Phuket A huge monohull like the boat from The Perfect Storm came sweeping importantly in from around the corner and she slott...

Ahh! We are leaving this beautiful island.(16/9) I have really got comfortable here. We anchored close to the shore and yet 2 days ago i put goggles on and went for a swim around the boat and we were in 20m deep water! White sandy bottom and one little fish was all i could see:)  Yesterday was so exciting (as usual!) It started off not so exciting as there were flies everywhere! I decided to quickly vacuum the carpets and then Brent started to clean the cockpit-much to Cody's horror as he stood one foot on the yacht and the other on the duck, surfboard under his arm while we were all scrubbing furiously. I must admit, what a difference to the feeling of the boat after a whirlwind springclean. Finally we headed out to find some surf! This time Louie stayed behind to look after Micah . Brent dropped Caden and I off on the palm filled island. I had 2 cameras, sunblock, towel, bottle of water and Cadens lunchbox! We had to walk along the beach for a bit and then deviate through ...

We are all taking turns tonight to do nightshift duty. I get the early morning shift (YAY!) Normally I use this time to clean, prepare the table for breakfast and make a tinpot of tea for those fortunate ones who wake up on time! Brent has set up one alarm on the right sugarscoop to alert the nightwatcher to an intruder! Lets hope they do not board Micah from the side:)! Tea and then off to bed... Good morning:)) Thanks to Brent- I got to enjoy an early morning -peace and tranquility before the rest of the boat wakes up. It is very difficult to wake up on a boat because you sleep SO deeply that you just want to carry on sleeping! Which is what i would love to have done ...but i was very appreciative that he did wake me up and let me stumble out onto the deck all bleary eyed to watch the sunrise:) It was quite exquisite. To the one side, the palm trees sqwauked away chattering noisily to each other like a big jostling crowd with nowhere to go. This island is just so pretty. It i...