words from the wanderers

South Minerva Reef, 400 nm from the closest land in the South Pacific Reef Ho! 801 nm, 5 days and 1 hour after departing New Zealand, we put the hook down in the beautiful gin clear waters of the reef lagoon at S Minerva. A special corner of the South...

Marsden Cove Marina, New Zealand We’ve checked out of the country, filled with diesel and thrown off the dock lines. Arriving back in Whangarei only a week ago , we were thrilled to get a weather window to sail to Fiji so soon. Not ones to take anything...

Whangarei Town Basin Marina, New Zealand Turns out our last post was very prophetic, since one week later we were alerted to the news that a Category 3 hurricane would make landfall on the north island of New Zealand as an extra-tropical cyclone. So back...

Otaio Bay, Urupukapuka Isl It is hard to believe that 23 years ago we were in the midst of preparing for our first offshore adventure on Manu Kai. Back then we devoured every book we could find that was written by those who had circumnavigated, those...