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A little piece of Paradise-Turtle Island:)

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Cally looking Glam no matter where we are:)  Caden last Indo trip showing us a map of where we are:)  Look at the cracks in the seabed! Look at the colour of this water! Caden sitting and keeping a watchful eye for reef... Micah last year in Indo with Travis looking perplexed:) I must tell you about the most beautiful islands we went to for our anchorage 2 nights ago. The beach on the island looked so beautiful BUT the shorebreak was so powerful! From a distance, the islands were not spectacular. They looked like two flat black lines on the horizon. However, as we sailed past the first one, the sea became the most amazing blue - a blue that I do not think I have ever seen before:) A photoshopped blue:)! Barra lookng At Home in her anchorage:) To make our entrance grand, we even hooked a 4 star in the eating department (out of 5 stars:) ), coral trout! We were so excited because on our previous trip to Indo, we had hooked a large coral trout ...

Surf...and more SURF:)

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One of the many beautiful sunsets we have seen on our travels by yacht:) Wow! It is always ominious to see a ripple of huge swells in the distance and even the odd foamy so far out to sea! I checked the charts and there is a 10metre pinnacle so far out! This is volcanic area and it is frightening to think that the massive tsunami 6 or so years ago actually started here in the Simoleu area where we are... I guess those tectonic plates that run all along the Indonesian islands must be overlapping somewhere underneath us:(( Umm-ohoh! The seasick tablet is kicking in and I am starting to feel soooo tired! Caden and I in earlier days in the safe haven of a marina-stress free:)  Okay here I am hanging onto Brent-what can I say I am a "hangeroner. ":)  Hanging onto my beautiful daughter:) We are following our friends on their monohull Barbara Ann and another mono called Barra. Barro Barbara Ann  They are both faster than our catamaran but w...