Distant Horizons: All good things must come to an end...

And this month back on Pitcairn has been one of them.

Today I set sail on the Claymore II on a 36 hour journey to Mangareva.

So to finish up the Pitcairn portion of this blog, here are a few of the photos taken on my amblings around the place, while walking, aboard the longboats, aboard cruise ships, driving around on my trusty stead.

Enjoy…

Cruise Ship Amadea Vs the Yacht Southern Cross

Some Pitcairn coastline. This area is called 'Down Issacs'

More coastline, the cave looking thing on the left is called 'Gudgeon'

Can you spot the goats? Pitcairns only local source of red meat.

Following the huge earthquake in Chile, Pitcairn was one of the first places on Tsunami alert. Luckily for us, Pitcairn is very highly elevated and is in the middle of very deep ocean. Therefore Tsunamis don't get much of a chance to build up enough to do much damage. However, we did have some really interesting swell down at the landing.

If you look closely, you can see how low the water has dragged out emptying the harbour.

Within seconds, the water gushed back into the harbour

This activity was more like extreme tides rather than large waves. Very interesting to see as most of have never seen down the landing completely drained of water before.

The french cruise ship 'Princess Danae' stopped in for a visit.

Onboard the Danae watching the longboat pass by.

Paparazzi! They took more photos of us than we did of them.

I didn't spend all of my time fishing, swimming and eating. Decided to try my hand at making a strap basket. These baskets are made from shipping straps.