Toketie underway from Airlie Beach and headed for Townsville! First night, tucked behind Gloucester Island, was flat calm and so quiet you could hear a welcome silence after the party boat next to us in Airlie the night before!
A mere 45nm today, motor-sailing with very little wind. But Linda counted 9 humpback whales through the day putting on a display of breaching and sounding and spouting! Dolphins appeared and played as well!
We have tucked behind Cape Upstart and the wind has died down to a breeze. The swell seems to have followed us in, however, and Toketie hobby-horses over them as a bright red sun sinks into the sea.
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Taiohae ruins, Marquesas
Bahia Santa Maria, Mexico 2006
In August, 2006, S/V Toketie set out from Victoria, British Columbia and sailed South to Mexico, on to French Polynesia, Niue and Tonga following the well beaten path known as the 'coconut run' to New Zealand. In 2009 we sailed N to Fiji then on to New Caledonia en route to Australia! Toketie is now back home in British Columbia after a long passage via the N Pacific Ocean.
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Taiohae ruins, Marquesas
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Bahia Santa Maria, Mexico 2006
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- Only about 60,000 nautical miles under Toketie's keel...so far....but actively working to add to it! Six years in the S Pacific, living the dream as they say, and now back in beautiful British Columbia!!
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