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Foreword
SAILING THE SOUTH PACIFIC
* the dream *
Chapter 1
GOING, GOING, GONE CRUISING!
* the escape*
Chapter 2
NORTH TO ALASKA
* the shakedown cruise *
Chapter 3
VOYAGING TO HAWAII
* my first ocean passage *
Chapter 4
ALOHA!
* exploring our first Pacific landfall *
Chapter 5
VISIONS OF PARADISE
* my first glimpse of traditional Pacific life *
Chapter 6
CROSSING THE LINE
* our first encounter with tropical disease *
Chapter 7
TONGA - IT'S THE PEOPLE YOU MEET
* the friendly feudal isles: home of the oldest and last Polynesian monarchy*
Chapter 8
RETURN TO TONGA
* a celebration of rain and royalty *
Chapter 9
VOYAGE TO TONGA, AGAIN
* Weddings, Feasts and Trading in Tonga *
Chapter 10
NIUATOPUTAPU - FAR NORTH TONGA
* where time stands still *
Chapter 11
LAZY LAGOON DAYS
* adventure at Iles Wallis *
Chapter 12
FIJI HERE WE COME!
* a fragile paradise *
Chapter 13
THE MAGIC OF THE REEFS
* cannibals in northeast Fiji *
Chapter 14
SITTING IN A CHIEF'S LAP
* the dry, funny side of Fiji *
Chapter 15
FUN @ FUNAFUTI
* island power *
Chapter 16
ADVENTURE IN VANUATU
* pigs in paradise*
Chapter 17
GETTING INTO HOT WATER
* hot springs and volcanos at Ambrym *
Chapter 18
SAILING TO THE LAND OF TA-HAR
* bedeviled by winds *
Chapter 19
PIG KILLING IN PENTECOST
* our adoption *
Chapter 20
SLEEPY SANTO
* a beehive of inactivity *
Chapter 21
THE "STONE-MEN" OF MALEKULA
* a peek back in time *
Chapter 22
MALARIA & BIG FISH
* the two that got away *
Chapter 23
RETURN TO RAGA
* bringing light to Loltong *
Chapter 24
MELODIC MAEWO
* a veritable Eden *
Chapter 25
WATER MUSIC OF LAKONA
* aqua-robics island-style *
Chapter 26
IN THE EYE OF THE BISHOP
* to err is human, to be forgiven, divine *
Chapter 27
THE GREAT SHRIMP HUNT
* the double falls at Waterfall *
Chapter 28
NEW CALEDONIA: RUGGED RED ROCK IN THE OCEAN
* baguettes and bureaucracy *
Chapter 29
LANDFALL: LOYALTIES
* postcard paradise *
Chapter 30
CLIFFS, CAVES AND CORAL
* discovering the cave of the ancients *
Chapter 31
ISLE OF PINES
* back to school *
Chapter 32
CYCLONE !
* close call with Cyclone Drena *
Chapter 33
A BUMPY START
* around the red rock *
Chapter 34
NAVIGATING TO MAHAMATE
* in the wake of Captain Cook *
Chapter 35
BALABIO BECKONS
* fortune in the hills *
Chapter 36
THE NORTHERN LAGOON
* like nowhere on earth *
Chapter 37
PEACEFUL PRONY
* millennium dawn *
Chapter 38
SHIFTING GEARS
* the end of an era: a new beginning *
Chapter 39
THE LAST PASSAGE
* where is my captain? *
Chapter 40
WHAT NEXT?
* from voyagers to vagabonds *
APPENDIX 1 - How Did a Nice Girl Like Me End Up Cruising?
APPENDIX 2 - Living Simply
* less is more *
