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Chris & Lyn Darch

Sun 12 Oct 2008 16:06

General view of Neifa harbour

Vava yacht club for the rich and infamous

View from the hill overlooking the harbour

View from the Paradise Hotel of Zephyr

The veg market

Lyn at work on the for sail repair

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2011

May 2011

Sat 7 May 23:13
- The Return of the blogger

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Dec 2010

Sun 5 Dec 20:50
- Edlevice

Nov 2010

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- Hi Di Hi
Fri 5 Nov 23:04
- The Hobbit saga

Oct 2010

Wed 20 Oct 21:08
- Hobbiton
Sun 3 Oct 20:10
- Spring has Arrived

Sep 2010

Wed 22 Sep 21:54
- Windy Wellington
Tue 7 Sep 22:23
- Shakers

Aug 2010

Mon 30 Aug 03:17
- More from the South
Mon 16 Aug 22:56
- Heating in the Southern Hem
Sun 8 Aug 22:14
- There she blows
Tue 3 Aug 02:33
- Return of the Veg man

Jun 2010

Wed 16 Jun 21:53
- Reporting in Pt II
Mon 14 Jun 23:13
- Reporting in Pt 1

Apr 2010

Thu 22 Apr 19:52
- Air tickets to Ashes
Tue 13 Apr 20:19
- The Weekly Rant
Thu 1 Apr 04:38
- Fans

Mar 2010

Mon 29 Mar 19:12
- Autum in the southern Hem
Tue 16 Mar 19:20
- News from Wellywood
Wed 3 Mar 08:24
- 20 20

Feb 2010

Wed 24 Feb 19:14
- Back to Welly
Thu 18 Feb 22:40
- Great Train Jourey of the dark incontinent
Fri 12 Feb 01:31
- Home at Last
- Position pm 10/02/2010
Tue 9 Feb 18:23
- Home Leg the Cook Straits
Mon 8 Feb 21:06
- Onward to the Cape
Sun 7 Feb 21:50
- The West Coast of NZ
Sat 6 Feb 18:53
- Opua bay of Islands to Wellington

Jan 2010

Sun 31 Jan 23:14
- Manawaora Bay
Sat 30 Jan 01:18
- Parekura Bay
- Urupukapuka Island
Wed 27 Jan 20:15
- Back to the Bay
Thu 21 Jan 01:25
- Tales of the expected
- The Road Trip North

2009

Dec 2009

Fri 25 Dec 05:45
- Yo Ho Ho
Wed 23 Dec 06:57
- Meery Crimbo
Fri 18 Dec 08:22
- Back to the Bay
Thu 3 Dec 05:48
- Santa in the sun

Nov 2009

Sat 28 Nov 06:17
- A Long Wait

Oct 2009

Mon 26 Oct 23:47
- Rescue Me
Thu 15 Oct 18:25
- One year on
Sat 3 Oct 18:44
- Tidal Waves

Sep 2009

Thu 24 Sep 05:50
- Refurb of Flats
Mon 14 Sep 19:51
- Spring Sun
Tue 8 Sep 18:50
- Update from 40 deg S

Aug 2009

Mon 31 Aug 20:00
- Spring down Under
Thu 27 Aug 13:56
- Shocker
Tue 11 Aug 19:44
- The last furlong
Thu 6 Aug 20:36
- North to South PIII
Wed 5 Aug 18:52
- North to South Pt II
- North to South Island Pt I

Jul 2009

Mon 20 Jul 10:13
- Holiday break
Fri 10 Jul 22:26
- News update from down under

Jun 2009

Thu 25 Jun 09:28
- Dust and Rubble
Fri 19 Jun 19:02
- Warm and Sunny
Tue 16 Jun 19:32
- Hobbiton
Sun 14 Jun 05:16
- Rip out
Mon 8 Jun 19:17
- Napier Art Deco Capital of the world famous in NZ
- Cold Front 2
Sat 6 Jun 05:36
- Cold Front

May 2009

Mon 18 May 02:04
- Big Splash
Sun 10 May 23:19
Thu 7 May 06:31
- Letter from Aoetearoa
Sat 2 May 05:19
- Thoughts from abroad

Apr 2009

Sat 25 Apr 05:14
- Foul Weather
Sat 18 Apr 06:04
- The Last Leg
Tue 7 Apr 05:27
- Photo Ashby's boat yard
Sun 5 Apr 03:52
- A tale of good weather

Mar 2009

Sat 28 Mar 19:59
- Leter from NZ 2
Sat 21 Mar 19:11
- Letter from New Zealand
Sun 15 Mar 01:07
- Back on the hard
Thu 5 Mar 20:42
- bay pics
Wed 4 Mar 19:24
- Back in Paradise
Sun 1 Mar 18:34
- Bay of Islands

Feb 2009

Mon 23 Feb 18:23
- Back in the Bay
Tue 17 Feb 19:50
- The long road back
Sat 7 Feb 22:50
- Whitangi WE
Sun 1 Feb 23:39
- Back Garden Makeover

Jan 2009

Mon 26 Jan 06:06
- Houses and horses
Wed 21 Jan 18:41
- Houses and huts
Sun 18 Jan 17:49
- Skull attack
Wed 14 Jan 18:19
- Kia Ora
Fri 9 Jan 19:22
- The great house hunt
Mon 5 Jan 01:21
- Doctors Drains Taps and Plumbers
Thu 1 Jan 18:16
- Happy New Year

2008

Dec 2008

Mon 29 Dec 18:07
- Midd Festive Break
Wed 24 Dec 22:10
- Blogamas Day
Sun 21 Dec 02:43
- Yule tide greetings form Down Under
Fri 19 Dec 19:08
- Yo Ho Dong
Wed 17 Dec 18:51
- Update
Mon 15 Dec 19:34
- Sea and Land
Sun 14 Dec 18:55
- Wellington a week on
Fri 12 Dec 17:45
- NZ pics
- Back to Welly
Wed 10 Dec 21:43
- Party time
Tue 9 Dec 17:53
- Wellington
Wed 3 Dec 07:45
- Long trail South
Mon 1 Dec 08:29
- Back in the Bay

Nov 2008

Sat 29 Nov 08:05
- Big Town
Tue 25 Nov 07:03
- Wild and Windy
Sun 23 Nov 07:51
- One Week on
Fri 21 Nov 14:11
- Last day's of sun
Tue 18 Nov 18:16
- Usless facts
Mon 17 Nov 09:51
- Load out
Sat 15 Nov 18:04
- The joys of being alongside at last
Fri 14 Nov 08:21
- Home at last
Mon 10 Nov 20:11
- Easy as she goes
Sun 9 Nov 23:01
- Swinging on a cloud burst
Sat 8 Nov 21:24
- Wrough rider
Fri 7 Nov 20:55
- Wind at last
Thu 6 Nov 22:12
- Another day on passage to home
Wed 5 Nov 20:29
- All in one day
Tue 4 Nov 20:25
- THE LAST PASSAGE

Oct 2008

Fri 31 Oct 18:57
- The Last Dance
Wed 29 Oct 07:46
- The last anchorage
Mon 27 Oct 19:54
- Away again
Sun 26 Oct 22:06
- Goat Island
Sat 25 Oct 06:33
- Lazy Days
Fri 24 Oct 23:32
- Sandy Attols
Wed 22 Oct 22:34
- Lifuka Island
Tue 21 Oct 16:14
- Another Attoll
Mon 20 Oct 08:50
- Days to do are getting few
Sun 19 Oct 08:45
- Art Ark
Sat 18 Oct 09:21
- Moving on
Fri 17 Oct 11:27
- Coral gardens
Thu 16 Oct 09:36
- Marina cave
Tue 14 Oct 17:40
- Swallow caves
Mon 13 Oct 09:10
- Back to Anchor
Sun 12 Oct 16:06
- tonga vava'u
- tongan feast
- whale watching tonga
Fri 10 Oct 08:23
- Back to work
- Fw: Sunny days are here again
Mon 6 Oct 08:31
- Dive Dive
Sat 4 Oct 08:48
- Disapointment
Fri 3 Oct 08:09
- Whales

Sep 2008

Tue 30 Sep 07:52
- Happy Hr
Sat 27 Sep 22:41
- Wild night
Fri 26 Sep 23:15
- Tonga luvvley jubbley
Thu 25 Sep 21:57
- Paradise again
Wed 24 Sep 23:50
- Yesterday
- Tonga Yo
Tue 23 Sep 00:24
- Wet Wet Wet
Sun 21 Sep 21:07
- Lazy Jacks
- Weather & Food
Fri 19 Sep 21:35
- Early Morning Rise
Thu 18 Sep 23:15
- French Onion soup
Wed 17 Sep 23:14
- What wind
- Ode to Tonga
Mon 15 Sep 20:47
- Life in the tumble dryer
Sun 14 Sep 23:34
- Day one o Tonga
- Depart Bora Bora
Sat 13 Sep 10:38
- pics
- Bora Bora Black out
Thu 11 Sep 10:20
- Sore Bones
Wed 10 Sep 17:40
- Five Guys and a bitch
Sun 7 Sep 12:56
- Cannons
Fri 5 Sep 19:43
- Dinghy day
Thu 4 Sep 08:44
- Another day in Bora
Wed 3 Sep 20:29
- Gusty Bora Bora
Mon 1 Sep 07:39
- Nick Nick in Bora Bora

Aug 2008

Sun 31 Aug 16:54
Sat 30 Aug 14:20
- The First Trek
Fri 29 Aug 01:44
- Bora Bora and the doggies
Wed 27 Aug 21:04
Tue 26 Aug 21:28
- Position
Fri 22 Aug 22:37
Tue 19 Aug 22:55
- Baboons and Huahine
Mon 18 Aug 09:59
- moorea pics
Sun 17 Aug 06:24
- Good bye Moorea hello Huahine
Fri 15 Aug 21:00
- Last day in Moorea
Thu 14 Aug 22:47
Wed 13 Aug 04:29
- Moorea
Tue 12 Aug 05:43
- Moorea Cooks Bay
Mon 11 Aug 05:03
- Depart Tahiti - Arrive Moorea
Fri 8 Aug 06:11
- Lyn and the Lift
Thu 7 Aug 19:35
Tue 5 Aug 17:31
- Day Five and Six
Sun 3 Aug 18:48
- Tahiti Day 3 and 4
Fri 1 Aug 21:52
- A Day missed

Jul 2008

Wed 30 Jul 17:08
- Tahiti Day Two
Tue 29 Jul 03:25
- Arrival Tahiti
Sun 27 Jul 23:43
- Windless and wine less
Sat 26 Jul 23:38
- Depart for Tahiti
Fri 25 Jul 01:20
- Calms and Warm Rain
Wed 23 Jul 03:26
- Rain at last
- pics marquesas
Mon 21 Jul 19:44
Sun 20 Jul 06:39
- Pics
Sat 19 Jul 20:12
- A Rum punch
Wed 16 Jul 06:26
- Rangiroa
Mon 14 Jul 21:16
- Day four Slow slow
Sun 13 Jul 17:40
- Squalls and roller furlers
Sat 12 Jul 20:43
- Astro
Fri 11 Jul 21:27
- Day Two Nuke to Rang
Thu 10 Jul 19:03
- Day one Nuka Hiva to Tuamotos
- Happy Wednesday
Tue 8 Jul 17:59
- Up ad Over
Sun 6 Jul 21:49
- Rock pools
Fri 4 Jul 23:38
- Anaho Bay
Wed 2 Jul 22:02
- NoNos Bay
- Shark bay

Jun 2008

Mon 30 Jun 02:14
- Rain and wind uh
Sun 29 Jun 08:05
- More rock and roll
Sat 28 Jun 04:00
- Taiohae Bay Nuka Hiva
Fri 27 Jun 03:41
- Ua Poa day 2
Wed 25 Jun 22:00
- Ua Pou
Tue 24 Jun 04:09
- Bay Hanamenu
Mon 23 Jun 18:55
- All shipshape
Sun 22 Jun 18:18
- Maintanance Day
Sat 21 Jun 18:39
- Calm anchorage
Fri 20 Jun 04:14
- Up Hill Down Dale
Thu 19 Jun 03:19
- Aloa
Wed 18 Jun 04:09
- Hiva Oa
Mon 16 Jun 21:32
- Arrival Hiva Oa
Sat 14 Jun 20:39
- Penultimate Day 20 Galap to Marq
Fri 13 Jun 23:36
- Day 19/20 312 nautical miles from land.
Thu 12 Jun 23:09
- Galley Poo Poo Day 17
Wed 11 Jun 21:49
- Day Sixteen the roll continues
Tue 10 Jun 23:17
- Conkers in the Sky Day 16
Mon 9 Jun 18:45
- Day 15 on the high seas
Sun 8 Jun 21:40
- Day Fourteen Galap to Marq
Sat 7 Jun 20:33
- Day thirteen galap to Marq
Fri 6 Jun 17:49
- Ships at Dusk
Thu 5 Jun 17:45
- Day Twelve Galap to Marq
Wed 4 Jun 16:40
- Trial by Bloggers Day ten Galap to Marq
Tue 3 Jun 17:48
- Day nine Galap to Marq
Mon 2 Jun 19:29
- I was framed!
Sun 1 Jun 23:30
- Day Seven Galap to Marq

May 2008

Sat 31 May 13:51
- Day six Galap to Marq
Fri 30 May 15:21
- Day No Five
Thu 29 May 13:30
- Day Four
Wed 28 May 15:19
- Day Three
Tue 27 May 19:54
- Day Two
- Day two Galap to Marq
Mon 26 May 12:45
- Galapogus to Marquisers Day One
- Brown underpants
Fri 23 May 03:22
- Day Eight Galapogus
Thu 22 May 01:58
- Day Seven Galapogus
Mon 19 May 14:02
- Day Six Galapogus
Sun 18 May 13:47
- Galapogus Day 3 and 4
Thu 15 May 14:32
- Galapogus Day Two
Wed 14 May 18:01
- Galapogus Day One
- Acadamy Bay Galapogis
Mon 12 May 20:16
- Day Eight Panama to Galapogus
Sun 11 May 16:26
- Panama Canal
- Day No 7 , Panama to Galapogus
Sat 10 May 19:23
- Day 6 Panama to Galapagos
Fri 9 May 17:00
- Day Five Pan to Golap
Thu 8 May 16:42
- Day Four Pan to Galap
Wed 7 May 16:11
- Day three Panama to Galapogus
Tue 6 May 12:30
- Day 2 Pamama to Galapogus
Mon 5 May 12:21
- Depart Panama day 1
Fri 2 May 13:10
- Isla Contradore Las Perlas
Thu 1 May 11:49
- Las Perlas Isles

Apr 2008

Wed 30 Apr 12:44
- Outward Bound at last
Sat 26 Apr 11:43
- Progress in the Lazaret
Thu 24 Apr 11:21
- Auto pilot update
Sun 20 Apr 12:27
- Balboa a plesant suprise
Thu 17 Apr 23:38
- The Pacific chapter begins
Wed 16 Apr 02:19
- Big day minus Two
Sun 13 Apr 11:42
- More O'dore Colon
Fri 11 Apr 13:28
- Odour de Colon
Wed 9 Apr 15:29
- Panama City
Sun 6 Apr 17:30
- Exploring in my shorts
Thu 3 Apr 13:59
- Banking Panama Style
Tue 1 Apr 23:57
- Transit merryground

Mar 2008

Mon 31 Mar 14:01
- Releif from Irigation
Sat 29 Mar 14:00
- A day out to Gatun Locks
- The booze cruise so far.
Fri 28 Mar 11:44
- Photos
Thu 27 Mar 13:35
- Free Zone
Mon 24 Mar 17:23
- San Blas Island Photos
- photo test
- Two heads are better than One
Sun 23 Mar 13:32
- Another Colonic Interigation
Thu 20 Mar 22:46
- Ikes Colonic interigation
- The Pilots Underpants
Wed 19 Mar 14:24
- Happys days in Colon????
Mon 17 Mar 17:31
- Strangers in the night again .. a repete of an old favorate
Sun 16 Mar 13:25
- At Anchor
Sat 15 Mar 13:48
- Colonic paperwork
Fri 14 Mar 02:24
- Christobel Panama canal entrance
Thu 13 Mar 01:00
- Portobello
Sun 9 Mar 23:08
- Paradise lost
Sat 8 Mar 21:45
- Arrival
Thu 6 Mar 11:55
- Day Five Martinuque to Panama
Wed 5 Mar 13:50
- Day 4
Tue 4 Mar 12:23
- position day 3
- day 3
Mon 3 Mar 11:43
- Day TWo to Panama
Sun 2 Mar 11:30
- 1st day

Feb 2008

Sun 24 Feb 11:07
- NZ visas

Jan 2008

Wed 30 Jan 23:39
- The Fable of the Gen set
Sun 20 Jan 01:21
- The Martinuque shuffle
Tue 8 Jan 12:43
- Still Alive Just

2007

Dec 2007

Tue 25 Dec 22:45
- Just another day in Paradise
Fri 21 Dec 14:41
- End Of Passage phase
Sun 16 Dec 11:14
- Rum Punches and rain
Thu 13 Dec 23:35
- The end of pond jumping
Wed 12 Dec 14:35
- Wednesday again Dec 12
Tue 11 Dec 13:35
- Zephyrantes Day 15
Mon 10 Dec 12:44
- Day 14
Sun 9 Dec 13:33
- zEpHeR dAiRy DaY 13
Sat 8 Dec 14:20
- Day Twelve
Fri 7 Dec 13:38
- Day 11
Thu 6 Dec 13:34
- Day 10
Wed 5 Dec 10:05
- Day 9 (it seems longer)
Tue 4 Dec 11:18
- Day Eight
Mon 3 Dec 15:08
- Day 7
Sun 2 Dec 10:48
- Day Six
Sat 1 Dec 11:51
- day 5

Nov 2007

Fri 30 Nov 09:54
- Day 4
Thu 29 Nov 09:54
- Day 3
Wed 28 Nov 17:14
- Fw: Position DAY 1
- Position Day 2
Mon 26 Nov 07:43
- Departing Cactus Island
Sun 18 Nov 20:53
- Fw: Cactus Culture
Sun 11 Nov 18:05
- Back to Blighty

Oct 2007

Tue 9 Oct 20:39
- Good bye Madeira Hello Lanzarote

Sep 2007

Thu 27 Sep 13:08
- Have a glass of Madeira My Dear
Tue 18 Sep 20:22
- Position Madeira Quinta Do Lorda
Sat 15 Sep 22:39
- The owl and the pussy cat went to sea in a beautiful awlgrip boat
Fri 14 Sep 15:17
- Position Porto Santos
Fri 7 Sep 12:59
- Close encounters of a fishing kind

Aug 2007

Fri 31 Aug 19:34
- Strangers in the night exchanging glances wondering what the chance is theyed be dancing through the night
Sat 25 Aug 20:19
- The Current bun returns
- Postiion 25 08 2007
Thu 23 Aug 13:53
- Position
Wed 22 Aug 20:25
- The Baby Blake and the pickled onion
Sat 18 Aug 15:37
- Musical fuel berths and tha saga of Sada
Mon 13 Aug 19:22
- Noahs Progress The pilgrims tale
Thu 9 Aug 18:32
- La Coruria
Mon 6 Aug 19:41
- Position Ria De Cederia
Sun 5 Aug 13:47
- Noahs Progress Another Tale from the rain
Sat 4 Aug 10:16
- Position Ria De Vivero

Jul 2007

Thu 19 Jul 16:56
- position
Mon 16 Jul 09:13
- Fw: Noahs Progress
Wed 4 Jul 21:56
- position update

Jun 2007

Sat 30 Jun 11:38
- Position
- Test transmisiion

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