Day 3 – No luggage !! We slept a little better last night than we had the first night, but we were still awake long before the alarm. Once again, I donned my Target jeans as well as my Target t-shirt, and put on my Target flip-flops. Then I went into the bathroom and washed…
When we got up at 7.30 this morning, the Onward was slowly making her way towards the island of Mo’orea. Mo’orea is a roughly heart-shaped island only about 11 miles from Tahiti; in fact, we could just see the bulk of Tahiti rising in the distance. Mo’orea, like Tahiti, forms part of the archipelago known…
During the night, the clocks had gone back once again, in line with the GMT -10 time zone of French Polynesia. We were therefore wide-awake and up at 7.30am as usual this morning, with a feeling of excitement and anticipation, as once again we would be going ashore. This morning the Onward was due to…
Sunday, 1st February 2026 Another couple of sea days. Unlike the Caribbean, where you can visit a different island every day, you have to travel hundreds of miles between islands in the vastness of the Pacific, which is larger than all the other world’s oceans put together. 🙂 So here we were, in our usual…
It was with great excitement that we got up at 7.30am and dressed, ready for our pre-breakfast laps around the deck. We also wanted to be on the lookout for our first glimpse of Pitcairn Island, one of the most remote and thinly-populated places on the planet. Pitcairn is, of course, famous for being the…
Wednesday, 28th January 2026 When we woke up this morning at seven o’clock, it was to see that the Onward was sailing along very slowly, only doing about 3-4 knots. We could see Easter Island in the near distance, the lively waves of the Pacific ocean crashing onto its rocky shores. So near, and yet…
Because I had had a good nine hours’ sleep last night, I woke up bright and early and ready to go. At 6.30am we quickly got dressed and made our way up to Deck 10, where half a dozen or so early birds were power-striding around the track. The sun would not rise for another…
We had set the alarm to go off at 6.30am as we hoped to catch the tropical sunrise, but when we awoke and looked out of our window, we saw the large red ball of the newly-risen sun, which gave our cabin a warm orange glow. We had missed the actual sunrise by 10 minutes….
Woke up at eight o’clock – or should I say “woke up again” because I did not sleep at all well last night, if I managed to sleep at all. I was wide awake most of the night. At 1.30am I decided to get dressed and go up to the upper deck and have a…
Couldn’t sleep very well, so at 6.15am I decided to get up, go up on deck and watch the sunrise. I was looking forward to a bit of peace and tranquillity on the top deck, before the majority of other passengers woke up and made their presence felt. However, peace and tranquillity was the last…
