Selected travel tales
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All at sea during the pandemic
Don Quijote rolls gently at anchor off the island of Antigua as Beef O'Keefe and Jana McGeachy sit to Sunday night toasties. For two months a mercurial coronavirus has left them dancing between anchorages around the tiny Caribbean island. With their cruising permit expired and nearby sea borders closed, the Aussie-Canadian couple say they feel like refugees of the sea...[Read More]
Snorkelling with turtles
Electric green parrot fish dart around soft and hard corals.
Just under the surface, giant sea turtles sway in the gentle swells. I take a breath and dive down. As if strutting its stuff on the catwalk, a leopard shark glides past and swishes its tail in my face before it turns around for another look...[Read More]
Treasure Island: Escapades with the Sleeping Lady
Keri Algar finds a peaceful and serene island with a rich history, the Pacific’s equivalent to Venice and spectacular scenery. A place where no happy hour is necessary...[Read More]
P is for Pohnpei, P-Pass and Paradise
The Federated Sates of Micronesia have been home to a secret for some time, don’t tell anyone, but it’s SURF, plenty of it, perfectly formed and almost completely deserted. Keri Algar finds herself alone on breaks from heaven...[Read More]
Surfing the Sollies
On the western edge of the Pacific lie scattered 992 islands, wonderfully remote, fringed by reefs and exposed to ocean swells year around. For the adventurous surfer, Solomon Islands is matchless in the South Pacific... [Read More]
Experimental Gentlemen: Exploring Surfing in the South Pacific
The year is 1770. The place: somewhere in the South Pacific. Writes James Cook: “For here they are reefs of coral rock, rising like a wall almost perpendicularly out of the unfathomable deep…and here the enormous waves of the vast Southern Ocean break.” The Captain takes stock of the situation... [Read More]
The wave with Undies
It is a truth known among seafarers that life on a boat either forges the strongest of friendships, or breaks them. Nothing tests character like being confined in a hull with withstanding the whims of the sea in foul weather...[Read More]
New York to Kenosha
The maiden voyage of Loose Wire, Don Larsen’s Riviera 525 SUV (now the 545 SUV), proved to be a spectacular inland adventure as she cruised to her home port through the Midwest of the United States...[Read More]
Don Quijote rolls gently at anchor off the island of Antigua as Beef O'Keefe and Jana McGeachy sit to Sunday night toasties. For two months a mercurial coronavirus has left them dancing between anchorages around the tiny Caribbean island. With their cruising permit expired and nearby sea borders closed, the Aussie-Canadian couple say they feel like refugees of the sea...[Read More]
Snorkelling with turtles
Electric green parrot fish dart around soft and hard corals.
Just under the surface, giant sea turtles sway in the gentle swells. I take a breath and dive down. As if strutting its stuff on the catwalk, a leopard shark glides past and swishes its tail in my face before it turns around for another look...[Read More]
Treasure Island: Escapades with the Sleeping Lady
Keri Algar finds a peaceful and serene island with a rich history, the Pacific’s equivalent to Venice and spectacular scenery. A place where no happy hour is necessary...[Read More]
P is for Pohnpei, P-Pass and Paradise
The Federated Sates of Micronesia have been home to a secret for some time, don’t tell anyone, but it’s SURF, plenty of it, perfectly formed and almost completely deserted. Keri Algar finds herself alone on breaks from heaven...[Read More]
Surfing the Sollies
On the western edge of the Pacific lie scattered 992 islands, wonderfully remote, fringed by reefs and exposed to ocean swells year around. For the adventurous surfer, Solomon Islands is matchless in the South Pacific... [Read More]
Experimental Gentlemen: Exploring Surfing in the South Pacific
The year is 1770. The place: somewhere in the South Pacific. Writes James Cook: “For here they are reefs of coral rock, rising like a wall almost perpendicularly out of the unfathomable deep…and here the enormous waves of the vast Southern Ocean break.” The Captain takes stock of the situation... [Read More]
The wave with Undies
It is a truth known among seafarers that life on a boat either forges the strongest of friendships, or breaks them. Nothing tests character like being confined in a hull with withstanding the whims of the sea in foul weather...[Read More]
New York to Kenosha
The maiden voyage of Loose Wire, Don Larsen’s Riviera 525 SUV (now the 545 SUV), proved to be a spectacular inland adventure as she cruised to her home port through the Midwest of the United States...[Read More]
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Selected tech articles
Taking tech to the track
In the past few months wearable fitness gadgets have been flying out the door at tech retailers. Why? Because like any successful tech, they’re fun, interactive and are satisfying an important need. In this case, it’s to help make us fitter, healthier and ultimately happier...[Read More]
A band apart
Music does have a wonderful ability to connect people, capture the imagination and create harmony. But first, you need to be able to make it! Whether you play for your own pleasure or to entertain others, alone or with a bunch of mates, finding the right instrument for you is a matter of personal choice...[Read More]
Netgear's new Nighthawk X6 router reaches record speeds
The Nighthawk X6 is the first home router to use Broadcom’s new 5G Wi-Fi XStream chipset: a platform specifically designed to offer breakneck speeds for multiple-user routers....[Read More]
In the past few months wearable fitness gadgets have been flying out the door at tech retailers. Why? Because like any successful tech, they’re fun, interactive and are satisfying an important need. In this case, it’s to help make us fitter, healthier and ultimately happier...[Read More]
A band apart
Music does have a wonderful ability to connect people, capture the imagination and create harmony. But first, you need to be able to make it! Whether you play for your own pleasure or to entertain others, alone or with a bunch of mates, finding the right instrument for you is a matter of personal choice...[Read More]
Netgear's new Nighthawk X6 router reaches record speeds
The Nighthawk X6 is the first home router to use Broadcom’s new 5G Wi-Fi XStream chipset: a platform specifically designed to offer breakneck speeds for multiple-user routers....[Read More]