Turtle Mail

It was a nice and relaxing stop at Fawn Cove (Sudan), but we really needed to get to the town of Suakin to officially check into Sudan. So o...

Fawn Cove was our first anchorage in the Red Sea in southern Sudan. Anchored in this idyllic cove provided us with a quintessential African ...

In the coming days, strong gap winds were forecasted for the narrow entrance to the Red Sea which was just about 50 nautical miles away. We ...

At the west end of the Gulf of Aden is the much lesser Golfo de Tadjourna with the City of Djibouti guarding the entrance. On the 26th of Fe...

The next morning at Socotra Island (Yemen), we woke bleary eyed after a fitful night's sleep as the strong north wind made our exposed a...

Our first planned stop on our passage from the Maldives to the Red Sea was the rarely visited large island of Socotra just off the point of ...

We left our new-found paradise, the Island of Uligan of the northern Maldives, on February 9th at 09:00. We soon saw dolphins once again as ...

We take any chance we can get to snorkel reefs in clear waters so here at Uligan Island of the Maldives, we had just that. We saw lots of li...

Uligan Maldives is serviced by a small ferry boat, picking up and dropping off passengers and giving "carry on" a new meaning. It ...

As we approached our new anchorage in the Maldives at Uligan Island on February 4th, we could tell we were once again in a paradise setting!...

We broke from Galle Sri Lanka February 1st at 14:30 to continue our westward passages. Next stop, the remote Island of Uligan (aka Uligamu) ...

Sri Lanka deserves more time than what we could spare to get a full picture. But from our limited time in southern Galle (7 days) of this is...

We ran around Galle (Sri Lanka) with a tuk tuk finishing up a few errands and stopped to visit the Galle Fort of 1588. Built by the Portugu...