After the 4-week coral restoration course wrapped up, I was equipped with all the knowledge to keep planting coral at the three different GaiaOne nurseries. The first nursery is at the house reef, just off the coast of Tevana. There is a second nursery across the sea, at a neighboring island called Liukang, and the …
Do you ever feel like things line up so perfectly, that you couldn’t have planned it better yourself? That’s exactly how I felt about my time at Tevena House Reef. If you remember a few blogs ago, everything about this place felt like a manifestation becoming more and more true. When I first met the …
I spent my first week in Bira, Indonesia, participating in the 1-week freediving retreat and enjoyed a mixture of diving, yoga, and breathwork. After the week was over, most of my new friends I made during the course headed back to their homes and I remained at Tevana House Reef with a few others who …
After staying overnight in the city of Makassar, Indonesia, I headed back to the airport to pick up a group from the freediving retreat that was arriving in the morning. As mentioned in previous posts, I had been carrying around my freediving fins all year without using them very often. I didn’t know much about …
After getting my wallet stolen in Kuala Lumpur, I was ready to get out of Malaysia. After realizing that I likely wouldn’t return before the end of the year, I began to get increasingly nostalgic about my time there. Before ever coming to Malaysia, people would tell me not to visit, saying it was a …
I knew my time on SV Kismet was coming to an end but I wasn’t sure where to go next. So, naturally, I made a new manifestation list. I wanted to do more conservation-based diving somewhere in Southeast Asia, be there for 1-2 months, spend less than $2,000 per month, have a chance to help …
After an unexpected month away from KV Kismet, I finally met Kevin at the dock in Lombok. It was such a relief to be back onboard and reunited with all my stuff again. Kevin’s brother, Sean, was also back, visiting for a couple of weeks and the guys had some more land-based adventures planned. Also, …
It had been almost a month since leaving Indonesia on my 3-day visa run but I was finally returning, with a shiny new passport in hand. In the weeks that I was away, Kevin sailed from Komodo to Lombok, diving along the way. I arrived in Lombok to meet him but he had other plans …
After a few days in Wakatobi National Park, we departed and made our way toward our final destination: Labuan Bajo, the port city of Komodo National Park. The conditions were relatively calm and we finally got to use the spinnaker which had been taking up a lot of space in the salon. Instead of going …
We were halfway through our time in Wakatobi National Park and we moved SV Kismet down to the more southern island called Tomia (sometimes spelled Tomea). We had a lazy morning before departure and it took us two hours to get there, but when we arrived, we realized our mistake. The plan was to traverse …
After two days of passage, we arrived in Wakatobi National Park which is a collection of islands off the southeastern coast of Sulawesi. If you search where’s the best diving in Indonesia, you’ll often find Wakatobi in the top three destinations, next to Raja Ampat and Komodo. Needless to say, I was excited to do …
Kevin, Joni, and I arrived in Ambon, the largest city in the Indonesian province of Maluku, just in time to celebrate Joni’s 32nd birthday. Before arriving, I coordinated with a local dive shop to use their mooring ball in exchange for booking some dives. Ambon is world famous for its muck diving and what the …
After six weeks of unbelievable beauty, sailing and diving in Raja Ampat, it was time for SV Kismet to start heading south. We planned to get to Komodo over two weeks, with one or two overnight passages between stops. Once in Komodo, Joni and I would depart before our 60-day visas expired. Joni planned to …
With Joni joining Kevin and me onboard SV Kismet, we were ready to depart Sorong and continue to explore Raja Ampat once more. Since my and Kevin’s first time in Wayag was a little rainy, we decided to do the same trip that we had done with Kevin’s brother, Sean, but make a few different …
After our first day in the Sorong marina, I received a message from Joni whom I met in Langkawi on SV Millennium. I had last seen her on Tioman Island for our girl’s reunion and it seemed she and her boyfriend had since split up, leaving her in Indonesia with no plans. I asked Kevin …
It had already been one week of cruising on SV Kismet and I was quickly growing back into the cruising lifestyle. We would be arriving in Pulau Wayag but first, we had another big milestone to check off: cross the equator south to north! It had been over a year since we all crossed the …
I spent my first day on SV Kismet catching up on some much-needed rest from traveling and also catching up with Kevin and Sean. The last time I saw them both was in Fiji last year and since then, Kevin had sailed to Australia and then up to Indonesia, with Sean joining for the longer …
During my time volunteering at TRACC, I received a message from an old cruising friend, Kevin on SV Kismet. I first met Kevin during the Nada Haha sailing rally from San Diego to Fiji during my first two weeks of cruising in 2020. Since then, Eitan and I sailed off and on with Kevin around …
