{"id":606,"date":"2009-08-27T08:15:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-27T18:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.svyohelah.com\/wordpress\/archives\/606"},"modified":"2026-04-22T15:11:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T01:11:08","slug":"sticking-with-the-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.svyohelah.com\/wordpress\/archives\/606","title":{"rendered":"Sticking With The Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After chatting with a few job recruiters in New Zealand yesterday we&#8217;re much more encouraged about the job prospects there.  Additionally, we got email from friends on a sister ship at Christmas Island who have already waited 3 weeks for a weather window to get to Hawaii and back to San Diego.  And there&#8217;s already a monster storm brewing in the Gulf of Alaska with two gales forming right behind it.  We&#8217;ve concluded it&#8217;s just too late now to head north.  Friends of ours on a boat named Liberty sailed from Fiji to Seattle earlier this year, leaving Fiji in April, and had a great sail north.  If we don&#8217;t have work by next April that&#8217;s what we&#8217;ll do in the fall.<\/p>\n<p>So, instead of digging out our storm sails this morning, I think we&#8217;ll toss the dive gear into the dink and check out the dive site outside the pass.  The weather&#8217;s pretty settled this morning.  Our friend Neville from Dreamtime dove this site with the local dive company and said it was just so-so, but apparently that&#8217;s about as good as it gets here.  We were all definitely spoiled with the diving in the Tuamotus.  We&#8217;re looking forward to some pretty spectacular dives on Niue in a couple of weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Day before yesterday we pulled our bikes out and pedaled around the island.  It was a really pretty day and we got to see the island and a nice pace.  Tomorrow we&#8217;ll fuel up the boat and get enough provisions to last until Rarotonga.  The freezer&#8217;s empty now, but we hate to buy too much more at French Polynesia prices.  Unless the forecast changes significantly, we&#8217;ll drop the buoy on Sunday morning and head southwest to the Cook Islands.<\/p>\n<p>Teresa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After chatting with a few job recruiters in New Zealand yesterday we&#8217;re much more encouraged about the job prospects there. Additionally, we got email from&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-societies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.svyohelah.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.svyohelah.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.svyohelah.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.svyohelah.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.svyohelah.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=606"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.svyohelah.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1374,"href":"https:\/\/www.svyohelah.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606\/revisions\/1374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.svyohelah.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.svyohelah.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.svyohelah.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}