Scuba Diving and Muddy Adventures on Isle St. Marie- Sailing Vessel Delos Ep. 122
We set off on our first adventures with our new crew Greg and Chyanne! After quite a few failed attempts to find a good dive spot we finally find some epic scuba diving! With heaps of fish and giant lobsters!
“And… Princess of the week is…!”
We’re all sitting around the table, tapping our fingers excitedly against the wood as Mr Brady pulls a name from the pot.
To be Princess of the week is to get the crew to do whatever you please and whenever. You can use the power with dignity, or abuse it.
“Elizabeth!”
Our Sailing Life in Madagascar! Sailing Vessel Delos Ep. 121
This video can be perfectly summed up in my favorite Madagascar phrase “Mora Mora” it literally means “slowly slowly” simply – things happen when they happen. We meet awesome locals that show us some incredible hidden gems, beautiful waterfalls, crazy wild life and pristine beaches.
After some 6000 NM and almost a year later we arrive back in Madagascar and whoow it felt good to be back! Our first stop – Isle St Marie, a small island with a crazy pirate history and one of the world only pirate grave yards.. totally cool!!
The sun is beaming down on me on Delos as I sit with Alex and Brady on the back. I’m feeling very much at peace today, and relieved.
It’s a new day.
We’re having a mini lie in on Delos. I don’t know why but I haven’t been sleeping too well. My nights have been filled with unpleasant dreams and I can’t seem to snap out of it. I yawn as I finish my tea and wave Karin and Brian off as they head out in Maggie to explore.
We leave the Skeleton Coast with a sense of relief. I don’t even look back at the place, knowing that I will never miss that land of bones.
With a severe tropical storm moving our way fast we decide to start our 575NM passage from the remote sandy beach island of St. Brandon to Pirate Bay in isle St. Marie, Madagascar! And what a passage, one of my favorites actually! Conditions where great, with a steady 25 knots behind the beam Delos was cruising along at 8kn.
The morning comes and Brian is excited about another day of exploring.
“Ok, guys, there’s this dune we have to climb- it’s about a 3km walk there and then we climb the dune. So it’s probably about an hour and a half there and an hour and a half back. What you reckon?”
Wanna know what paradise looks like? Man, this place is incredible! Take crystal clear water, sprinkle some pure white sand beaches around then put Delos right in the middle! No people no internet just us and thousands of birds.
I look down at the thing that has just crunched beneath my feet and take a step back quickly.
“Bones…” I mutter in astonishment. The white skull beneath my foot stares back at me accusingly, the deep black holes where eyes once were sunk deeper into the sand beneath my footprint.
“It’s only seven thirty,” Alex said cheerfully. “We’ve got loads of time.”
Surrounded by music and dancing people in Luderitz, I wasn’t ready to go back to Delos right now. Brady had just returned from dropping off Lisa, Karin and Brian to the boat and was ready for a couple of drinks at the Cray Fish Festival.
It’s cold, it’s dark and the blanket I’ve wrapped around my legs keeps slipping off in some way or other. I’m trying to keep my eyes open whilst making sure I’m checking radar and making sure we stay on course.
Sailing to a remote Paradise for the 4th of July! SV Delos Sailing- Ep. 117
After Kiril and Dillon leave Delos to continue their travels to Vietnam, the rest of us prepare for our sail to one of the most remote places we’ve ever been! After a rough but short sail we arrive on the 4th of July in Paradise! Welcome to St. Brandon Shoals 🙂
The Delos Diaries: Part 5 “Today is the Tomorrow you spoke of Yesterday!”
Continued from The Delos Diaries Part 4…
After our mad day of dancing, eating, attempting to go to University students’ house parties and being electrocuted, we weren’t done with the night.
Whoa. What a week so far. We’ve done so much that my brain actually hurts.
I want to write about it every night but as evening comes and rum pours, there’s always another morning to share- always another day to write.
We rode a F*****G SUBMARINE to a shipwreck! Sailing Vessel Delos Ep. 116
The crew takes a road trip around Mauritius to check out some local sites including the 7 colored sands. We go on a mission to find a grounded bulk carrier! While waiting for our permit to come through for St. Brandon Shoals we go on the hunt for wrecks to scuba dive on and end up hitching a ride on a f*cking submarine! Yeeeeewwww!
A drone crash, a lost tooth and a live concert! Sailing Vessel Delos Ep. 115
As Dillon is paddle boarding back to Delos one night there is a bit of a mishap and he knocks his tooth out! We do a night diving mission to try and find it… but to no avail. As you can imagine, he must’ve given his mouth a good whack if he ended up knocking his tooth out, which is definitely what happened. I remember squirming when it happened because I just had an awful idea about how painful it would be. Although, what I will say is that he was lucky that he only knocked out one tooth, as it could’ve been a lot worse.
I’m not sure what he’s going to do about his lost tooth. He hasn’t mentioned either way if he is just going to leave it as it is, or if he is going to see his dentist at the earliest convenience. If it was me, I would be straight to the dentist trying to get it sorted. In fact, I would even consider getting something like a smile makeover, as if you weren’t aware (like I wasn’t initially) that a smile makeover addresses majority of appearance issues, and if you had a lost tooth or other dental issues that you were conscious about, this would be a good way to achieve a smile that you are proud of. Of course, I will support Dillon either way though.
After his paddle boarding accident, I do have to say that I am a bit nervous about getting back on the board in case the same thing happens to me, but this is just a fear that I will have to get over. That wasn’t the end of our action-packed day though, as then, in a random connection, we end up going to see the epic GoodLuck Live Band at a local resort! After the concert we start sailing south and decide to give our new splash drone a shot…uh oh!
