Big Island and Off to The South Pacific

For the past week we have been on the Big Island also known as Hawai'i. We got a rental car and went exploring around the island.

One day we got up at 3am to see the sunrise on Mauna Kea. The top is around 13796ft above sea level but it is supposedly taller than Mt. Everest when measuring from the bottom of the ocean. Also on our adventures we went to a black sand beach and a green sand beach. Ive started to collect sand from different beaches in the world and will continue too along this trip. We are leaving tomorrow morning to head to the Marquesas which are 2300mi away from here or if we cant sail that east we will be sailing straight south to Tahiti which is 2600mi away. It will take about 3 weeks maybe less depending on the wind.

Crossing to Lana'i

We left on Aug 2nd around 12pm and arrived to Manele Bay on Lana'i around 3pm on the 3rd.  It was really tiring to sail all night but totally worth it. The crossing wasn't to rough compared to times when we cross to Molokai instead. During the night of the crossing I spotted something glowing in the water. All of a sudden we were sailing through Bio luminescence (lil glowing plankton). I totally felt like Pi from the book and movie "Life of Pi". I found this picture off the internet it looks like what we saw but ours was green!

The Boat and The Plan

This is the Catnip! Its 34ft long and my home for the next year. We have three little rooms on board. But only two people living on board, my father and I. Dwight Streamfellow (Daddyo) has been dreaming of sailing to the South Pacific since his early twenties and now finally has the chance.

We are leaving from Oahu (our home) and sailing south towards the big island as our first big stop. We have been trying to leave but tropical storm Flossy has been keeping us on Oahu. We hope to leave in a few days. From the Big Island we will be heading south to Tahiti and from there just island hoping all the way to South East Asia or however far we can get before I have to go back to college in Fall of 2014.