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Di Sini Senang

Yesterday morning we scooted around our new anchorage at Gili Trawangan in the tender, weaving our way through a stack of local boats. Markito and I pointed out rogue mooring ropes in the water that Simon artfully dodged. Sometimes boat owners here drop the anchor and then pull their boat up on shore and tie…

Plan? What Plan?

I’m in the cockpit gazing longingly over at Gili Trawangan. The boat is gently rocking through the swell that’s coming in from the north. We just arrived back on Red Dragonfly after a few hours spent walking around the eastern tip of the island, an area we hadn’t explored yet. The twins are inside playing,…

Gili Gede – Jobs Work Fun

We’ve moved back on board, so now what? Adventure, exploration, sailing, facing new challenges. Nope, not yet. To make this sailing lifestyle sustainable for us I need to keep working. My work is very flexible and last year I found that once I’d settled in, I could work while we were sailing. But this time…

Season 2: Episode 1

We’ve spent the last 5 months and a lovely summer at home in the mountains of Northeast Victoria, while Red Dragonfly has been on a swing mooring at Marina Del Ray at Gili Gede in Southwest Lombok, Indonesia. We had two big questions in coming back to the boat: How on earth were we going…

2017 Sailing Route

Last year we sailed from Hastings (Victoria), up the east coast of Australia, turned left at the Torres Straight Islands to Darwin, then hooked a right up to Dili (East Timor), where we meandered westward through East Nusa Tenggara (Indonesia) until we got to Lombok. We left Red Dragonfly at a little island called Gili…

Where are you?!?!?

Case Study: Pattern Recognition in 2018 FB Messenger Conversations This research has identified a consistent trend in online conversations between Mayra and her friends. Qualitative analysis of a large data sample drawn from the social media application Facebook Messenger shows frequent use of the question ‘where are you?!?’ This result suggests Mayra has failed to…

Dili, Timor-Leste

It took us 3 days to sail from Darwin to Dili. We expected to have around 10-15 knots of south-easterly winds pushing us across the Timor Sea and then no wind for the last 24 hours as we traveled along the north coast of Timor. In fact, the opposite occurred. We motored for the first…