The major highlight of this year for me was on the 27 th  October with the arrival of Brodie Malcolm McKendrick - my first Grandchild. The joy of seeing your own daughter and her husband become parents and see the love in their eyes that only you as a parent feel and cannot describe is just pure delight. Our plan was to sail to Newport NSW for his birth; however, we had to delay our departure from Fiji, due to the importation of Trim to Australia via New Zealand! This thankfully gave me a...

After the remoteness and beauty of the Lau group it was time to be highly sociable. We had a full agenda of visitors scheduled for Joline...

With Joline fixed and my niece, Darcy, ready to continue her adventure with us, we headed straight to the Yasawa islands to swan about...