“If you wanna be a different snail, drop your shell and hoist your sail”
…meet it, greet it and endure Maybe it was because of the bananas, for it is an old superstition not to bring bananas onboard, and we had a bunch of at least a hundred. Or maybe we had offended King Neptune by saying that we did not like this sea of doldrums. Or maybe we […]
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by Klara Johanne Braga Jakobsen #1 Crocodiles at your Doorstep On land you do not have to worry about your house being surrounded by ginormous reptiles making leaving or returning a rather scary affair. Wet season in Northern Australia is mating season for the crocodiles, and unlike many species these beasts are doing extremely well
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by Klara Johanne Braga Jakobsen mUSLIM PRAYERS AND cHRISTMAS tREES We have now been in Indonesia for over two months, and I think we are getting in the groove of it. Everywhere we go, whether city or rural village, people greet us with so much enthusiasm, kindness and generosity it glitters my world and makes
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by Klara J. B. Jakobsen https://web.facebook.com/blackduckatsea a gardening excursion Have you ever seen a politician in gardening gloves? We saw five the other day on a mountain peak in Ambon. On Monday the 29th of November 2021 we were lucky to partake when five politicians from the Capital Jakarta and Ambon went on a little
Lebebae – for a Sustainable and Musical Ambon Read More »
A look at Hidup Mandiri, an Indonesian trading vessel owned by a family of four. Hitup Mindiri means Independent Life, and so it looked when we went onboard the other day.
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come rain or shine Three days, two nights through calms and countless squalls we sailed from Wakatobi to Buru.We can never be too practiced in our reefing and sail-trimming. So, thank you NW Monsoon for these valuable lessons. One thing we have learned during our latest passages, is that our rain jackets are in fact
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In a childhood dream Sampela is definitely one of the most remarkable villages I have ever been to. Riley said it was like being in a childhood dream, which is the perfect way to describe it.Imagine a colourful village on the water, completely disconnected from any land. Only a string of thick cable, hung from
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It is not all downwind sailing on a flat sea. Sometimes we love it and sometimes we throw curses at the sea and ask ourselves, why again it was that we went sailing.On a sailing-boat emotions seem to roll in in steep waves. And on the passage from Darwin to Kupang we asked ourselves exactly
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