{"id":1428,"date":"2009-10-15T09:15:33","date_gmt":"2009-10-15T09:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/?p=1428"},"modified":"2025-10-01T16:55:51","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T16:55:51","slug":"moving-along","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/?p=1428","title":{"rendered":"Moving along"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These are the last photos that we will post from New Caledonia.  Things have moved along quickly and Saturday morning we begin the 812 nautical mile passage to Brisbane, Australia. We arrived back in Noumea yesterday (Wednesday) and quickly learned that a weather window to Australia was open this weekend.  Last year we spent three weeks waiting for a window and this year we will not wait at all since Saturday is the earliest that we can leave.  The weather forecast is too good to pass up. <\/p>\n<p>The passage will take us about five days &#8212; we hope to arrive at slack tide in Brisbane around noon on Thursday, October 22.   We will post updates along the way.<\/p>\n<p> M.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 375px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Phare Amadee:  Ilot Amadee Lighthouse, built in the 1860s\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3554\/4013092741_9fe643bfe1.jpg\" title=\"Phare Amadee:  Ilot Amadee Lighthouse, built in the 1860s\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Phare Amadee:  Ilot Amadee Lighthouse, built in the 1860s<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 375px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Phare Amadee:  Ilot Amadee Lighthouse, built in the 1860s\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2431\/4013858348_3e0f36457c.jpg\" title=\"Phare Amadee:  Ilot Amadee Lighthouse, built in the 1860s\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Phare Amadee:  Ilot Amadee Lighthouse, built in the 1860s<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 375px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Phare Amadee: spiral staircase to light\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2645\/4013092831_a200f764f3.jpg\" title=\"Phare Amadee: spiral staircase to light\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Phare Amadee: spiral staircase to light<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Phare Amadee: Laura at the to\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2459\/4013858026_ec663d82e7.jpg\" title=\"Phare Amadee: Laura at the to\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Phare Amadee: Laura at the top<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Phare Amadee:  Sabbatical III at anchor behind the reef at Amadee\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3198\/4013858118_e1a72bd4ca.jpg\" title=\"Phare Amadee:  Sabbatical III at anchor behind the reef at Amadee\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Phare Amadee:  Sabbatical III at anchor behind the reef at Amadee<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ilot Mato: sea snake on the beach\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2428\/4013858688_a84753af82.jpg\" title=\"Ilot Mato: sea snake on the beach\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ilot Mato: sea snake on the beach<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 375px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ilot Mato: sea snake track on the beach\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3521\/4013093945_8f6a666c12.jpg\" title=\"Ilot Mato: sea snake track on the beach\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ilot Mato: sea snake track on the beach<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ilot Mato: view from the top\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2600\/4013859764_a4b6d7a1f9.jpg\" title=\"Ilot Mato: view from the top\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ilot Mato: view from the top<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ilot Mato: Laura enjoys the view from the top in a collapsible chair\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2463\/4013860752_d1e69c8280.jpg\" title=\"Ilot Mato: Laura enjoys the view from the top in a collapsible chair\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ilot Mato: Laura enjoys the view from the top in a collapsible chair<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ilot Mato: view from the top with Mark\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2479\/4013095627_9ed25bc0dc.jpg\" title=\"Ilot Mato: view from the top with Mark\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ilot Mato: view from the top with Mark<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ilot Mato: dinghy on the beach\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3532\/4013094265_ddbcd24040.jpg\" title=\"Ilot Mato: dinghy on the beach\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ilot Mato: dinghy on the beach<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ilot Mato: at anchor\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2508\/4013859276_a5502c7eb9.jpg\" title=\"Ilot Mato: at anchor\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ilot Mato: at anchor<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Underway\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2481\/4013094687_f59c169c92.jpg\" title=\"Underway\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Underway<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Southern lagoon: Beautiful grouper caught and released\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2475\/4013861090_58ee091888.jpg\" title=\"Southern lagoon: Beautiful grouper caught and released\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Southern lagoon: Beautiful grouper caught and released<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Noumea:  stepping ashore in Port Moselle\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2590\/4013861314_7a834b22a0.jpg\" title=\"Noumea:  stepping ashore in Port Moselle\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Noumea:  stepping ashore in Port Moselle<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These are the last photos that we will post from New Caledonia. Things have moved along quickly and Saturday morning we begin the 812 nautical mile passage to Brisbane, Australia. We arrived back in Noumea yesterday (Wednesday) and quickly learned that a weather window to Australia was open this weekend. Last year we spent three &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/?p=1428\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Moving along&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[28,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-caledonia-2009","category-other"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}