Archives for the '2008 - Australia and Southern Indian Ocean' Category
Reunion Island, Indian Ocean - Nov 2008
We have spent a week at St Pierre in Reunion, and met some friendly liveaboards in the marina there as well as cruising friends on our route. The first week is free for visitors so we took full advantage! Unfortunately we were there during the first truck and bus drivers strike for four years and […]
Mauritius, Indian Ocean - Sep/Oct 2008
We were pleased to find that the marina fees in Port Louis, Mauritius were very reasonable compared to most places we had been so far. We met a retired Frenchman who had a yacht and Nigel designed some self-steering gear for him, and in return he paid for our new mainsail. We had until then […]