Chasing The Blue Beyond

The Committee to Ascribe a Naval Origin to Everything Is Now In Session Give me a wide berth, I’m a loose cannon and three sheets to the wind. Anchors aw The Committee to Ascribe a Naval Origin to Everything Naval Origins Committee Anchoring every phrase to maritime history The Committee to Ascribe a Naval Origin to Everything Is Now In Session Give me a wide berth , I'm a loose cannon and three sheets to the wind . Anchors aweigh . There are three sorts of people; those who are alive, those who are dead, and those who are at sea. — Old Maritime Wisdom Welcome aboard this voyage throu...

Sydney Harbor- Spectacular  Sail Away     Don't worry about the world coming to an end today.    It is already tomorrow in Australia   .   Street View         

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February 27th of this year Last time we docked here, was five months ago to the day, onboard Crystal Serenity. This time it's P&O Australia's Pacific Pearl.

 New York and I have decided to see other people- I Love (French)Bread too   Charles de Gaulle said  "How can you govern a country which has two hundred and forty-six varieties of cheese ?"  but when it comes to bread everyone in France, and even its loyalty   islands like Noumea agree-there’s only one, Baguette, We call it French Bread, but all the bread in Nouvelle-Calédonie is French .    Sure the whiter the bread, the quicker you’re dead, but there is this thing called the French Paradox-basically you have a grace period for your entire life where you can drink,eat smoke whatever and whenever you like, and then one day, you die peacefully in your sleep at the age of eighty-to ninety something.      Pig Farming In The Tropics (Fiji)  The D word-diets are like airplanes- I don't like to be on them-so I have been eating less  and enjoying it more.  I have even began eating Ham and Eggs--: a days work for a chicken; a life time com...

 The archipelago located in the South Pacific known as New Caledonia is part of the "confetti" of the French colonial empire. What a great day today.  “I wish I could tell you about the South Pacific. The way it actually was. The endless ocean. The infinite specks of coral we called islands. Coconut palms nodding gracefully toward the ocean. Reefs upon which waves broke into spray, and inner lagoons, lovely beyond description. I wish I could tell you about the sweating jungle, the full moon rising behind the volcanoes, and the waiting. The waiting. The timeless, repetitive waiting.”" Tales of the South Pacific" by James A. Michener  Powder---The Book is better than the movie but a picture is worth a 1000 words.   Me And My Shadow 'coulda had a V8'   Got Wood? 

I always talk in Bumper Stickers-Instant gratification takes too long    Tender Boating       Escape to Reality  You know, addiction isn't the problem - it's the solution- When all you care about is here, this is a good   place to be  “Addicted to traveling”   or for that matter “Addicted to all-non working activities” shouldn’t be   a new reason for self-hatred or a diagnosis, rather a pursuit like the arts and entertainment, that permit self-exploration and satisfy your psycho-social needs.   You see, in general, if a pastime is not classy, those who love it are labeled with the Dr Phil-Drew-Oprah Psycho Babble rhetoric of “addict.” Opera and Symphony   aficionados, on the other hand   are “passionate” and "driven".   Loading the cultural dice in favor of “reality” over fantasy, we get the sense of     adventure beaten out of us when we ask ourselves the most irritating of the question words, “Why?” ...

On Course for New Caledonia Sunshine on The Water Makes Me Happy There is no YES in yesterday but wow that was some island paradise! The view from the cheap seats

 Rock Star Balacing Act   OMG I'm a Country Boy  John Denver visited this island today-Rocky Mountain High, Sunshine On My Shoulders, Country Roads, Thank God I’m a Country Boy-all that’s left is Leavin’ On A Jet Plane.  Looks Like Santorini Greece But It's Fee-Gee (Fiji)  Back To One (Take 2)  Country Roads Take Me Home  LOST

For Sale/Sail       Economics 101 Fiji has over 300 islands- I have seen about 25 so far this trip. I'm concerned that "the wow factor" no longer applies. Yet if I take an imaginary a ride down Southern California's Carmageddon- Interstate 405, breath in some smog  while stuck in bumper-to-bumper traffic. I still want to escape to  MY reality--being in the South Pacific! I love the  Free Parking for all boats, ships and anything that floats. The Law of Diminishing Returns   is the theory that the more your experience something, the less effective it becomes. Think of the drug addict that needs more and more drugs, just to achieve the same high. Beyond that point, more and more gains in any one particular area adds less and less to happiness . So in a sense, you can have too much of a good thing. The more you experience of the good thing, your overall happiness will decline. I am needing a larger and larger DOSES of paradise-Bora Bora, Moorea, now Fiji---to get...

The Mother Ship Pacific Pearl In Background-I'm wearing black from here on out, not because I'm in mourning but for 'slimming' after that world cruise-I'm  the Johhny Cash of Sailing. Beachcomber Island Freedom For Sail on The Catamaran Freedom can certainly be purchased in a  7 days vacation on one of these idyllic islands. I just happened to visit  one of them, and stayed the day. Priceless.

 No Pine In PineApple      Big Slick  Ah Suva!, from sea you  looks  so promising, despite the oil slick (right), but in town, it looks like paradise has  committed suicide. I thought cyclone season was over. This is like if that Biggie Smalls rapper met the Afghan Kush,and they had a baby. Many are cold but few are frozen I don’t take issue with being the Morgan Freeman of travel bloggers, never getting the due respect I deserve. After all,    “Sweet dreams are made of these-traveled the world and the seven seas”---this is   as huge in a Lebron James but as annoying in a Rob Lowe sort of way.    Meet Your Meat  “Ed Reif is the Wilt Chamberlin of the high seas, putting up ports of call numbers so high that mere tourist could never come close.” Ed’s Mom Maria Reif It is what it is yet   my   definition of is makes me feel like the Tupac of Paradise’s    Found to the extent that I’m expected to come up with fresh n...