So sad to see this. Such lovely people who have had such a tough year already. We just spent a beautiful couple of month recently exploring Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and they were just ramping up the warnings for an explosive eruption when we left as there was a effusive magma cone building up on the top of the mountain while we were there (and they had shut the crater hike and had everyone on evacuation alert).
Hope these three early explosive eruptions are the end of it for them and not a precursor to something bigger. I guess we can now add dodging exploding volcanos to the dodging of hurricanes, tornadic waterspouts, border closures, quarantine, lockdowns, and general pandemic induced chaos of the past 12 months. You can read about the eruption here.
The drone footage from Cumberland Bay in the last video I posted (see below) was taken just over 6 nautical miles from the center of the volcano.
If this is true this is a whole nother level of fucked up.
Hmm. hopes its not.
Wow!
What amazing footage and super impressive sailing across the world with 3 small kids.
A very special family experience.
How long have you been doing it?
Yes it is quite a different lifestyle. We have been living on the boat for about 18 months now.
I have been contemplating it and also have 3 little kids (and 2 big ones).
You've shown that its possible through the toughest conditions and your kids look great and independent. A huge gift to their future. Your son's confidence is amazing.
90 days in crazy lockdown must have been hell, but you survived it.
I am ashamed of Australia's behaviour towards its citizens overseas. Doubly so because I know some of the guys in charge.
Do it if you get the chance. Life is much shorter than we as humans tend to acknowledge. People get trapped in the mundane and their own feelings of self construed importance in their narrow structured environments. They miss out on the subline side of what the world and this life has to offer.
I have a couple of other videos up on 3speak if your interested (not sure if you have seen them) (https://3speak.tv/user/intrepidphotos). I don't normally put personal photos/videos up, they are shot mostly as memories for us, but thought people might like to see them. I have a few more videos shot that I have to edit up also from Antigua and Barbuda.
Also a post from a while ago about what it has been like for us in the first year. I assume you have seen some of it as you know we were locked down for 90 days.
https://peakd.com/hive-194913/@intrepidphotos/one-year-at-sea
Not sure if you have read Wanderer by Sterling Hayden. But I will leave you with a quote from it to motivate you. It was written in 1962 but seems more relevant now than ever.
Sterling Hayden, Wanderer, 1962
Continue doing a great job dodging things :O
Hope the volcano is just being grumbly and goes back to sleep :S
Ha I will try to. Have also narrowly avoided two Tsunamis (SEA and Japan) and a few bushfires over my time. Sailboats are good for moving on when things turn pear shaped.
As for it going back to sleep yes we all hope so; but seems unlikely for a few days more at least.
Your life is a little bit too exciting for me x_x lol
lol; I am sure you would love it once you got out ;-)
Coldest I've been was snow in Melbourne and that was way more than enough XD
I see there was snow just outside of Melb yesterday?
I could look that up and find out, I'm on the other side of the country and generally oblivious to anything unless it crosses my radar for some reason (usually if I happen to catch it when passing by when the tv is on news or if it appears on one of my feeds or if someone tells me). We did the snow thing one year when we traipsed over there to visit relatives.
Double rainbow 🌈