Fai Tira Blog 16.00 UTC  Sunday 03rd January

Fai Tira still in Antigua .   17:00.52N 61:45.90W

Happy New Year to all our blog readers. 

Well we are now into our fourth month of our adventure and year 2010 will see us crossing the Caribbean and following Venezuela coast and its inherent chance of being confronted by pirates and then onto Panama with the canal transit in February.  We are then in the Pacific Ocean crossing the equator en-route to the Galapagos Islands.  We then encounter the longest passage to the Marquesas Islands which will take about four weeks.  We will then head west via Tahiti, Tonga and Fiji to eventually arrive in Australia in August to meet friends who live out in Aus.  Fai Tira will be lifted out there and anti-fouled before heading north through the Great Barrier Reef and around the top of Australia to Darwin.  We then head up to Thailand for Christmas and New Year but not before we have sampled the delights of Indonesia and Malaysia.  Well that’s another year gone and about 12000 miles travelled.

Back to Antigua and Christmas and New Year with Judy, Dee and my Dad.  We had a lovely time staying in the air conditioned rooms of the Admirals Inn.  Most days were spent chilling out in the hotels garden or on the beach.  We ventured out to the main town a couple of times.  John and Dee loved the atmosphere there.  We also ventured out in a hire car for the day.

New Year saw us at a cafe bar called East meets West.  There were about thirty of the rally participants and guests.  Chris and Debbie did us proud and produced great food and whilst the heavens opened to produce a deluge of wet stuff.  We were lucky as it all cleared up in time for the New Years fireworks.

Judy and Dad have now gone back to the cold of winter in Dartmouth and Dee is leaving tomorrow.  We are the only BWR boat left here in Antigua and we are looking forward to heading south to Guadeloupe and Dominica.

Bye for now.

Pete and John