Ups andDownsTual, Maluku Province, Indonesia June 7th 2020 The entire voyage would be 1200 miles and the first 300 mile leg was a journey across the bay of Papua New Guinea. It was still cyclone season but our PNG visas were up so we decided to take the path less traveled; the Northern Passage through the Torres Straits. This route is fairly safe from boat-eating-cyclones if we stayed very close to the Papua mainland. That meant dealing with reefage and extremely shallow ground. We were headed to Indonesia, the port of Tual specifically, a voyage that we expected to take 10 days and ended up taking almost a month. To add to the darkness of this passage, about 24 hours after we left Port Moresby, the world had begun closing down behind us. We would not find out about this devastating circumstance until we reached the other side of the bay; we were busy sailing and being sick. I was sure it was corona virus and was ready to give it up (I missed my dog). Dois was sure it was not covid19 (he missed her too but he is not the drama queen I am). He was right, we lived, it was only a cold.
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