This is part of a series called Oceania 2025 On our final day, we visited Rottnest Island (or Wadjemup as it is known by the Aborigines, which means “place across the water where the spirits are”). Just 12 miles off the coast of Fremantle, it’s about 7 miles long and 3 miles across at its…
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This is part of a series called Oceania 2025 While really enjoying Fremantle, we really wanted to go down to visit Margaret River, about 150 miles to the south. Margaret River is famous for both its wines and a world famous surfing location. We were ready for the former, but not so much the latter….
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This is part of a series called Oceania 2025 So, we are at the start of another adventure; this time a nearly 2-month trip across Oceania. Many of these places we have wanted to visit for a long time; some of the places have meaning for Deb and me because they are where our fathers…
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This is part of a series called Chile from the Sea To paraphrase an old saying, “Into every trip some rain must fall.” Today we got that, both figuratively and literally. Today we arrived in Valdivia, known as the “Venice of Chile” because of the myriad of rivers that meet there. While traditionally settled by…
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This is part of a series called Chile from the Sea After the relatively calm of the fjords we had been traveling in, we headed out to the Pacific Ocean and things got pretty wild with wind, rain, and big waves. Luckily by morning, things cleared up for our visit to Chiloé Island, a beautiful…
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This is part of a series called Chile from the Sea Today we visited another small community — Caleta (or “Cove”) Tortel. It is located on the Chilean mainland between the Northern and Southern Patagonian Ice Fields. Similar to Puerto Eden, most of the homes are on the water and the main way of getting…
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This is part of a series called Chile from the Sea Today we stopped at Puerto Eden, one of the most isolated inhabited places in Chile. It is on Wellington Island which is largely a national park. This tiny town of 200 people can only be reached by boat — there are no roads, airports,…
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This is part of a series called Chile from the Sea One the the major reasons we stopped in Puerto Natales was to visit Torres del Paine National Park, a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve and the eighth wonder of the world (as declared in 2013). It’s a huge park of about 700 sq. Miles, so we…
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This is part of a series called Chile from the Sea Today was another sea day, but a wonderful day to gaze at the beautiful Andes mountains that we sailed along, and later in the day through to get to our next stop — Puerto Natales. To get there, however, we had to traverse the…
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This is part of a series called Chile from the Sea We spent the night in relatively protected Beagle Channel and it was a good thing — over 60 knot winds were recorded nearby. As a consequence, we started out a little early for our next stop to see the Pia Glacier. It sits at…
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