Kate
professional mariner | full-time traveller | part-time blogger | amateur photographer | semi-circumnavigator | happy wife | made in South Africa
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I didn’t think I would have to write these words before the end of our circumnavigation, but journeys evolve and Melody needs a … View Post
I finally managed to get my hands on a digital copy of Sailing Magazine’s September 2017 issue! I’m especially excited about it because … View Post
This was our first stay in Mexico together – Rufus had never been except for our bus transit through from Belize to Cuba (Dec 2014) and … View Post
Every two months we leave the boat (we work on) securely in a marina and take a week off to travel, explore a destination … View Post
It’s been over a year since my last post… We have been fully focused on our work, running a private yacht, covering more … View Post
Our new job, setting up a new boat, means that we are bound to the marina here in Fort Lauderdale, while the works are … View Post
In my last post I briefly mentioned how we got the opportunity to travel to South Korea for 10 days with Kia Motors last year. … View Post
Facebook has been popping “memories” into my feed from a year ago. All the memories have been from our trip to South Korea last … View Post
For the better part of this year so far the plan has been to complete our circumnavigation in 2016, by crossing both the Pacific and … View Post
A few days after we arrived in Marquises, our friends Natali and João joined us after making the same passage from Panama on … View Post
FIVE WEEKS AT SEA. More than a month – 33.5 days to be precise – without contact to the outside world, other than our satellite phone and … View Post
And we are off! If you are reading this Rufus and I are sailing our way to Marquesas across the Pacific. The journey should … View Post
After we returned from our overland trip to Costa Rica and Nicaragua, we spend Easter weekend in Bocas del Toro and then made the … View Post
And we are BACK! If you follow our page on Facebook you will know that my MacBook charger took a walk in Bocas del … View Post
Rufus and I recently took a 10-day trip north to Costa Rica and Nicaragua. We left Melody on anchor off Isla Bastimentos and travelled … View Post
In the last post I mentioned that during our island hopping trip we stopped at Bluefield Lagoon and did a short overland walk to … View Post
Last week we arrived in Panama, after 7 days sailing down from Guatemala. We dropped anchor in front of Isla Colón which is part … View Post
On the third and last day we took the first water taxi we could get, across to the South West shore, to San Pedro … View Post
The next day it was back inland, with more offroad through sugar plantations, to Lago de Atitlán. The lake is situated in the … View Post
Apart from circumnavigating in our own sail boat we are also keen land travellers and we have a kind of overland bucket list to … View Post