Changing Oceans Like Most People Change Socks
Welcome to Asia It feels like just yesterday, L'ORIENTals. A comfortable routine............wake up, breakfast, gym, boat work, happy hour, dinner, repeat. We lived in our comfortable Pacific Ocean marina near Brisbane, and had access to a nice comfortable life. We traveled extensively......Tasmania, Outback, Sydney, Whitsundays, the beaches, etc. But the cruising life is about saying hello and goodbye, and after a total of 18 months off and on in Australia, it was time. Overnight we have turned from slow cruisers to people in a hurry. As we neared the northern most point in Australia and turned through the Torres Strait it suddenly struck us - we are leaving the Pacific. We entered the Pacific in 2020 and our first sail from Panama City to Nuku Hiva coincided with the start of COVID. Now, six years later, we were saying goodbye to the amazing Pacific with a bit of a lump in our throats. Ahead was a body of water we never thought this boat would take us - the Indian Ocean. Have we ...