The Western Grey Whales. Magnificent Mammals That Migrate 14,000 Miles Annually...

These magnificent whales migrate fourteen thousand miles every year just because it's what they do and it's what they've always done.
A study of three Western Grey Whales, each fitted with satellite monitored tags were found by Russian and US researches to have traveled from their primary feeding grounds off Russia's Sakhalin Island, across the Pacific Ocean, down the west coast of California to Baji, Mexico and after not so much as a quick cup of tea, head back home again.
There's thought to be around one hundred and fifty of these wonderful creatures left in the oceans of our world and they've been monitored along with the Eastern Grey Whale since the 1990's. Five have perished in the last decade in Japanese fishing nets and their future remains precarious, having to contend with commercial fishing, shipping and oil and gas fields.
The Western Grey's descendents date back thirty million years. With a bit of luck they'll be around a few million more... 

My Yacht Sofia. Rolled And Dismasted In The Pacific Twenty Years Ago Today...

This evening at around 8pm twenty years ago, my yacht Sofia, making passage to Tonga with my partner Uschi and I aboard was rolled and dismasted in a Force 12 storm that was to become known as a weatherbomb.
It was then and still is the biggest and most destructive weather event to ever be recorded in that part of the Pacific Ocean.
Winds were recorded at over ninety knots, the sea swell was twelve metres and some waves were one hundred feet high.
Three people died, twelve yachts were lost and twenty one people were rescued.
It was a life changing event for all of us.
To Jon and Maureen Cullen from Kerikeri Radio. To Bill Sommer from the NZ National Safety Coordination Centre. To Commodore Robbins and the crew of the NZ Navy vessel Monowai.
To the ships that came to assist others in distress. Thankyou, you are all heroes.
And to the amazing crews of the RNZAF Kiwi 315, Kiwi 668 and Kiwi 669 who kept our hopes of rescue alive and to Captain Oliver Saint Martin and the crew of the French Naval vessel Jacques Cartier who rescued Uschi and myself, looked after us and took us back to Auckland in a style only the French could manage.
Wherever you are, I send you all my thanks,
my love and the best of wishes.
You were braver than brave...

A Big Bold Beautiful Beach House In Peru...

 
Casa Las Lomas 1.5 is a home designed by Vertice Arquitectus that's located in Lomas del Mar beach in Cerro Azul, Peru.
The magnificent home is perched atop a rocky hill that provides a 180 degree view of the Pacific Ocean to the south and a panoramic beach view to the west and north.
And yes that's a swimming pool up there too.
If you're not going to be in Peru anytime soon, you can drool some more here if you wish.
Location, location, location...

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