Sailing Vessel Pogeyan

We are 8 years into our 5 year plan to explore the South Pacific and it's time to move on to the next adventure. Our beloved home/...

  Pogeyan berthed at Whangarei Marina: our home-away-from-home After several years of maintaining this blog with Google's primitive, but...

As we approached the island of Makogai we had to pass through a gap in the reef that encircles the island.  As often happens, we caught a fi...

At the end of our 3 week exploration of New Zealands Northeast corner we stopped at the Poor Knights Islands: a marine reserve located abo...

After a week at Minerva North we said goodbye to our new friends and sailed 17 miles south to Minerva South reef where we were the only boat...

Three Sisters Prior to our 10-day road trip through New Zealand's North Island Rich combed travel guides and websites to find dozens o...

After passing through the desert road we ended up near the town of Taupo and New Zealand's largest inland lake with the same name.   Ta...