Alex Rust 07 November 2010 | Out islands of Papua New Guinea We motored west out of Gizo on a sea of glass watching the fly fish leap from the underwater world to ours to perform their dance of escape with speed and grace leaving a trail of ripples the length of a football field[…]
Alex Rust 08 November 2010 | Solomon Sea, Papua New Guinea waters We drifted half the night well outside the atoll entrance waiting on light to navigate the coral and not long after sunrise we were approached by a lone canoe paddler even though we were four miles out at sea. We invited him aboard[…]
Alex Rust 08 November 2010 | Solomon Sea, north of Woodlark (muyua) Island We left out of Budi Budi with good light and headed west towards Muyua island where, on a large scale chart, I had seen a possible bay on its northern coast. We have no detailed charts on the region (I dont think[…]
Alex Rust 10 November 2010 | Trobriand Islands, Papua New Guinea It was dark as we approached the Trobriand islands. We could smell the burning coconut husk fires of land miles away and closer could see the flickering flames that littered the shore. In the distant skies that surrounded us I could count three different[…]
Alex Rust 12 November 2010 | Solomon Sea, Papua New Guinea waters Bubbles was hard aground off of Kiriwina island. We tried pulling/pushing with the dingy and even pirate swings with the halyard but with no light left and a falling tide our fate looked to be sealed for the evening. We grabbed a case[…]
alex rust 20 November 2010 | Umboi Island, Papua New Guinea It was morning when we first could see the mountainous island of Papua New Guinea (2nd largest island in the world) looming over the horizon well over 30 miles away and it took us all day to get there. Just before sundown we entered[…]
Alex Rust 22 November 2010 | Bismark Sea, outside of Madang We had nice 6 knot breeze from the east and so raised the spinnaker as we tried to make our last 100 miles across the Bismark Sea to the port town of Madang. Having each raised the spinnaker several times in the past few[…]
alex rust 25 November 2010 | madang, papua new guinea Some of what we saw in Madang while we called the Madang club our home – People walk around barefoot with gold nuggets in their pockets. Security guards carry bow and arrows instead of guns. Because of the lack of small change you can ‘sell’[…]
Alex Rust 27 November 2010 | Manam Volcano, Papua New Guinea After stocking up on water, fuel, oil, filters, mosquito nets, malaria pills, trading supplies, local produce etc etc we were ready to head out from Madang. It was dark and well past sundown but that didnt keep our adopted family, local friends, and random[…]
Alex Rust 28 November 2010 | Papua New Guinea Reed and Peter stayed with the boat (now with kids climbing all over it) while Ben and I went to shore accompanied by several natives to have presence with the ‘head counselor.’ On the way we passed copra drying stations and a disproportionally large catholic church[…]