15/6/14 Espiritu Santo Espiritu Santo, known simply as Santo is an agricultural island. Copra, Coffee, Cattle and Coco dominate the economy. Logging has been a controversial issue over the years and now has a strict code of control to preserve key cultural and ecological areas. Santo was a key staging area for over half a …
We departed Bluff on 12 March with the intention of calling back into Carey’s Bay, Dunedin to catch up with the lovely people we had met there, Steve and Jo Little, owner of Carey’s Bay Historic Hotel and Richard and Helen who own the slipway and fishing berths. However, the seaway was so calm we …
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After returning to Australia for Scott & Sarah’s wedding, where I broke my wrist and had to have a Titanium plate surgically implanted in my wrist, we returned to Carey;s Bay and began our journey around to Bluff, the very bottom of the South Island of New Zealand. Due to my broken wrist and inablility …
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Southern Star departure Auckland to Dunedin 11/24/2013 We departed Viaduct Harbour, Auckland on 16 November 2013, after taking possession of the vessel on 27th August 2013. We are now sitting in Carey’s Bay, Port Chalmers, Dunedin, on the South Island of New Zealand. It is a beautiful area, we are berthed in a fishing boat …