Fai Tira still in Antigua . 17:00.52N 61:45.90W Happy New Year to all our blog readers. Sunday 03rd January
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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 |