We have been telling people heading to the Surin & Similan Islands in Thailand to look at this site for our anchorages.  On looking before our own trip we see that we have not entered them.  This will be remedied!

On accesssing this site on our iPads we see that some of the side menus do not work correctly. Apologies for this. We will investigate further. The bottom menus do seem to work.

We are considering the possibility of crossing the Indian Ocean through the Sunda Strait and via Cocos Keeling, Rodrigues, Mauritius and Réunion to South Africa in 2013.  We would like to make contact with other yachts thinking along similar lines, or of making the crossing from Northern Australia or south of Indonesia. More.....

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Summary of our trip

SEA BUNNY, our yacht since 1998, left from Chichester in the UK in March 2001 on the first stage of her potential circumnavigation.

Since then she visited the Channel Islands, France, Spain and Portugal before leaving Gibraltar at the end of October 2001 with the Blue Water Rally, taking the tradewinds route through the Caribbean, the Panama Canal and the Pacific Islands to Fiji, where we left the rally in July 2002 and went on to New Zealand.

In 2003 we visited Fiji, Vanuatu and New Caledonia, returning to New Zealand and in 2005 we returned to the South Pacific, visiting all four archipelagos of Tonga then Samoa, Wallis, Fiji and Vanuatu before reaching Australia in November 2005.

For the summer of 2005-6 we cruised down to Sydney, arriving just before Christmas. The weather was too boisterous to continue to Tasmania and the boat developed problems so we spent the summer in Sydney, returning to Scarborough Marina near Brisbane in May. We spent most of the winter there returning in November from a six-week trip to the UK, our first in two years.

After 3 weeks we were off to Thailand for a reunion of some of the 2001-3 Blue Water Rally, following which we spent 3 weeks in Cambodia, including 10 days at Siem Reap, for the Angkor Wat ruins.

After another short stay back on the boat in January -not too hot and humid - we flew to Melbourne for a 10-week, 11000 km land tour taking in Melbourne, Canberra, Adelaide and Hobart and more importantly a lot of country between.

At the end of March 2007 we started to head north from Scarborough, initially to Mooloolaba to lift out. After various issues we didn't leave there until the end of June. We spent some time in the Whitsundays and the adjacent reefs before heading further north to Cairns.

By Melbourne Cup Day (1st Tuesday in November - a big event in Australia) we were in Bundaberg before basing Sea Bunny in Mooloolaba for the summer, the later part of which we spent in the UK.

June and the early part of July found us sailing north and then west to Darwin to join the Sail Indonesia rally, followed by the Sail Malaysia rally. We continued into Thailand and spent a month in The Surin and Similan Islands NW of Phuket followed by 4 months on the hard at Boat Lagoon in Phuket for some major refurbishments then back to Rebak Island, Langkawi to leave the boat for two months while we visited the UK.

Sea Bunny speny Christmas 2009 and the New Year in Phuket before visiting the Andaman Islands in Jan-Feb 2010. After a week back in Phuket we were back to Rebak to leave the boat for a month in the UK. In early May we joined the Sail Malaysia Passage to the East rally in Kuah, Langkawi and sailed or, mostly, motored virtually the entire caostline of Malaysia up to the Perhentian Islands, then across to East Malaysia (Borneo) and all the way round to Tawau near the border with Indonesian East Kalimantan.  Christmas and New Year 2010/11 were spent in Singapore and we headed up to Langkawi, arriving early February.  A couple of weeks in Rebak and a two-week circumnavigation of Langkawi preceeded our UK visit in April-May. 

We had a month in Phuket in July/August before returning to Rebak for some land travelling - Myanmar (Burma), Laos and northern Thailand.

Christmas 2011 was spent in Nai Harn Bay, Phuket and  New Year in Panwa Bali, Phuket.