World Cruise Land Air and Sea

 

At Sea Destination Papeete Tahiti            Day47,48 49 Temp23,25, 29.        Fri12 Sat 13 Sun 13 /9 2025

After 10 days straight we are now docked at Papeete Tahiti it is 29 degrees with patchy clouds the town is very quiet as not all the shops are open only a couple of Bars. This is the place Christian Flecher, and the crew of the Bounty fled to sunny shores.

                                                                Papeete Mariner 

Local women making orchard sprays

Local shells neckless 

Our welcome

Crown Princess at dock at Papeete

Notre-Dame Church Papeete

Moorea from Papeete Tahiti

Local Brewery

Love

 Len and Val

World Cruise Land Air and Sea

 

Pitcairn Island                                                Day44/45                          Wednesday10 Thursday 11/9/2025

After two and a half days at sea we have arrived at Pitcairn Island which is one of the most remote inhabited islands in the world. Lying below the tropic of Capricorn halfway between New Zealand and the Americas was here that Fletcher Christian and eight of the mutineers of the HMS Bounty was sunk.

                                                            Our double lap of Pitcairn Island

Sunrise

Pitcairn Island

Bounty Bay Pitcairn Is

Pitcairn Is

Rugged Coast of the Is

Val with Pitcairn in the background

One of three boats on the Is

Love

Len and Val

World Cruise Land air and Sea

 

Hanga Roa, Easter Island                                        Day 42          Temp 20            Monday 8/9/2025

After four days at sea we are now sailing around Easter Is or Hanga Roa which ever you like to call it but because of the Chilian Government we are not allowed to get any closer than two mile. 

The Monoliths of Easter Is have fascinated and puzzled Westerners since the Duch seaman Roggeven made landfall there on Easter Sunday 1722. The society that produced the Moai flourished during the 16th and 17 centuries, but population growth, deforestation and food shortages led to its collapse.  some 3400 people inhabit this 64- square-mile Island which lies some 2,200 miles equidistant from Tahiti and a South America. Islanders also possessed a script called Rongorongo, the only written language in all of Oceania.

                                                        Our circle of Easter Island

                                        This is as close as the Chilian authorities would let us be

Spot the patrol boat making sure we stay two mile away

Love

Len and Val

World Cruise Land Air and Sea

 

At Sea Destination (Hanga Roa/Easter Is)        Day 38,39,40,41.    Thur4,Fri5 Sat6, Sun7/9/2025

Our journey since we departed Peru has been four days and 3,790 Km with some high seas until we got around to the sheltered side of Easter Is. We could not get any closer than 2mile to shore because of the Chilean authority would not allowed us.

                                                                        Lunch time Snack

                                                                 Sunrise in the South Pacific

                                                                    Val's Craft work

                                                                    Sunset in the South Pacific 

                                                                        Cram seas

The Pacific getting ready to rock us to sleep

Love 

Len and Val

World Cruise Land Air and Sea

 

San Martin (Pisco / Paracas) Peru                    Day 38 Temp 20                    Wednesday 4 /09/2025

After leaving Lima the next morning we arrived at San Martin the port for a small village for Paracas and Pisco a quite colonial town with its fertile coastal valley. for thousands of years pre-Columbian societies thrived in valleys such as this utilizing sophisticated systems of irrigation they transformed the harsh coastal desert into productive farmland. Unlike the desert hillsides around San Martin, Now for three days at sea.

                                                            Our map of the Americas

Love 

Len and Val