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Pacific Islands Stories and Logs

Hawaii and Line Islands

• Aloha: San Francisco to Hawaii
• Hilo to Honolulu
• Fuel for the crossing
• Drone aerial photography
• Opening day
• A night at the races
• Heading to Palmyra
• Palmyra arrival
• Palmyra ashore
• Palmyra above and below the water
• Palmyra Ternado
• Palmyra Diving
• Diving and flying at Palmyra Atoll
• Fanning Island
• Trip map logs:
  • San Francisco to Hilo
  • Hilo to Honolulu
  • Cruising Oahu
  • Honolulu to French Polynesia via Line Islands

South Pacific

• From Hawaii to French Polynesia
• Marquesas Islands
• Diving Anse Amyot
• The Tuamotu Archipelago
• The Society Islands
• Beveridge Reef
• Tonga
• Fiji:
  • Lautoka and Nadi
  • The Mamanuca and Yasawa Groups
  • Yadua Island
  • Namena Marine Reserve and Makogai Island
• Vanuatu and Yasur Volcano
• Trip map logs:
  • Marquesas Islands
  • Tuamotu Archipelago
  • Society Islands
  • Tonga
  • Fiji
  • Vanuatu

New Zealand

• On the hard at Norsand Boatyard
• New Zealand's Bay of Islands
• The economics of sea freight (replacing the house battery bank in NZ)
• Auckland's Sky Tower
• Hauraki Gulf Marine Park
• Milestones (rounding Southwest Cape and reaching 47 degrees 2 minutes south)
• Wellington
• Fiordland
• Trip map logs:
  • Northland (northern end of North Island)
  • Hauraki Gulf
  • Coromandel to Marlborough
  • Fiordland
  • Stewart Island
  • South Island and Wellington