Leaving for Chagos!

Finally we are getting ready to go! Well, we are two days away still as we will need a day to recover from my birthday tonight, also because you don't leave port on fridays right? Anyway, excuses apart we go on Saturday after visiting the local vege market. All good to go, burtterflies flying around our stomachs and some nervous laughs everytime we talk about it but we are SO READY!!!

For me it's the real deal, once we leave I will finally believe we will go around the world! I kind of had this crazy idea (or hope...) that we would turn around do Micronesia and the Pacific before heading back to NZ, but if we leave West, West it will be from now on. Sth Africa will be our midway point. Looking forward to seeing Chagos, heard so many good reports on it. Madagascar sounds great too, seems like its very similar to Vanuatu on its village ways, very simple, very primitive. Been advised to keep all glass and plastic jars as they still use animal bladders and seed containers to carry water etc. So you can get some good produce for a plastic water bottle.

Well, the blog will be a bit abandoned while we are doing the crossing so we will be back in August once in Madagascar. Promisse I will have plenty of photos and stories to tell!

Thank you so much for all the phone calls we received lately! We still have until SATURDAY the 20th to chat!