South Pacific, Here We Come!

I know the blog has been dormant for a while, but now I have a new ultrabook to create your sleeping pill substitutes. Therefore, I will try to regularly inform our family and friends that we are alive, having fun, and probably someplace interesting. In short we plan to zig-zag our way to Australia via Canada, New Zealand, Fiji, Vanuatu, and New Caledonia. We have plans to count the kangaroos from Cairns to Sydney, dive on the Great Barrier Reef, eat exotic foods. Anyone have a good platypus recipe?

Theresa and I enjoy skinny-dipping, and this trip will incorporate the ultimate in tanning venues. We will be sailing with our friends from Bare Necessities for two sun drenched weeks from Fiji on the Paul Gauguin. See https://www.cruisenude.com/index.php/fiji-itinerary for details.



Have you ever heard the cliché, that something is, "the most fun you can have with your clothes on"? Well... this is more fun. Ninety of us went on a smaller Paul Gaugin ship, the Tere Moana, for New Year's trip around the Eastern Caribbean and had a blast. This ship is larger, 332 passengers and boasts a crew to guest ratio of 1 to 1.5! We even have a retractable water sports marina for the zodiac, wind surfers and kayaks!

I'll fill you in as I get Internet service, assuming I'm not too worn out from the activities. We must try to stay out of the soup pot on the smaller islands. It hasn't been so long ago when an invitation to dinner meant something different from what we usually think. Many tasty missionaries got the invitation and became what the islanders called, "long pig"!



We fly to Vancouver in the morning and I'm still packing, and re-packing, and tossing things out of the suitcase and re-packing again. Only 50 pounds per suitcase... oh the humanity!