3 Miles Straight Down

Enroute Niue

Couple things from this video:

First off, that little scrap of paper with the photocopied hand drawn chart of the reef?  It’s photocopied over and over and passed on from one cruiser to the next.  It is literally the best and only chart available for Beveridge Reef.  There may not be too many unexplored places left on this globe but there are at least some places less explored than others.

Two, did you hear those numbers?  Again to remind you, these islands are both very tiny and extremely far apart in a vast ocean.  It’s 120 miles to the next island, 500 back to the one we came from and the nearest land?  It’s only 3 miles away…straight down.  So a hand drawn map from who knows when Continue reading “3 Miles Straight Down”