A few pics, a hello, and lots of hugs from us! (Patreon)

Hey hey friends!  We wanted to show you a few snaps from our first stop in the stunning Tuamotu Islands 🥰. This little slice of paradise is Raroia, and for the first time since leaving the Sea of Cortez in April Delos is STILL!  After 19 days at sea and super rolly anchorages in the Marquesas, then our passage here, it feels like heaven to have found a flat anchorage.  There's a nice 15-20 knot breeze so it's been nice and fresh on board.  The water is super clear and we've been getting in some great scuba diving, snorkeling, and swimming.  Sierra can't get enough of the being in the water here!  One other cool thing we did here was checking out the monument for Kon-Tiki.  Kon-Tiki was a rudimentary hand-made balsa wood raft that Thor Heyerdahl and a team of Norwegian Explorers sailed across the Pacific Ocean in 1947.  Intrigued by Polynesian folklore, Heyerdahl believed that people from South America could have reached Polynesia during pre-Columbian times. His goal in completing this voyage was to show that it would have been possible using only the materials and technologies available to those people at the time.  After spending 101 days at sea, they made it to French Polynesia and ran aground right here on the reef in Raroia.  We've both read the book documenting their expedition called  "Kon-Tiki" which is amazing (and available in our amazon storefront at svdelos.com/amazon) but we also watched the movie after checking out the monument. We HIGHLY recommend both!

I (Brian) am in the process of getting my long stay visa which means we can stay for a year in French Polynesia (Kazza and Sierra both have Swedish passports so for them it's no problem) which means we can really take our time and move really slowly through this incredible part of the world.  

Anywho, we hope you're having a fantastic weekend wherever you are!

💕 Brian, Kazza, & Sierra 💕