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Lovely family time!!! ❤️

Lovely family time!!! ❤️

🦢💙 Our new friendly neighbors 💙🦢

🦢💙 Our new friendly neighbors 💙🦢

Gold Coast sunrise 🌞

Gold Coast sunrise 🌞

🌏💚COEXISTENCE💚🌏

🌏💚COEXISTENCE💚🌏

#SailingLife ⛵️🐟

#SailingLife ⛵️🐟

Happy New Year! 🎆🎇 2023 will be in Austral

Happy New Year! 🎆🎇

2023 will be in Australia for us! 🌏💙

Lezgo, m8! 🐨🇦🇺

Crazy storm arriving at Southport, Gold Coast! 🤯🌫️⛈️

Do you see our sailboat Moskito in the corner ready to take a tremendous shower? ⛵️🚿😮‍💨

Scary but incredibly beautiful, isn’t it? 😅

#MoskitoValiente #SailboatSquall #SquallAtAnchor #Squall #Storm #Gale #Tempest #LowPressureSystem
#GoldCoastWeather #SouthportGoldCoast #StormClouds #CrazyStorm #ThunderStorm #Queensland #AustralianStorms #AustraliaEastCoast #Insane

Our life is not only about sailing!🚵🏽‍♀️🚴🏽‍♀️🐾🇦🇺🦘

#NerangBikePark #GoldCoastNationalPark #MTBQueensland #MTBAustralia

Heaps good news, mates! 🗞️ José and Moski

We’re in Australia, mate!! 🥳🦘🇦🇺 Ku

We’re in Australia, mate!! 🥳🦘🇦🇺

Kuna wasn’t allowed to arrived in Australia by sea due to quarantine bureaucracies so she had to fly from Vanuatu and stay 10 days in the quarantine facility in Melbourne… 😓

It wasn’t easy times for the 3 Moskiteers…The 3 of us got separated for nearly 2 weeks because Andreia flew with Kuna and stayed in Melbourne on standby during the entire quarantine period while José sailed Moskito alone from Vanuatu to the Gold Coast. 😮‍💨

On this reels you can see the day when Andreia and Kuna got finally reunited while José was still on the middle of the ocean sailing towards us! 🥹

We were very lucky to meet the italian angel Cinzia @flamboyantcuttlefishy and her sweet cat Sofia that not only hosted Andreia and Kuna for a few days but also drove Andreia all the way to Mickleham to pick up Kuna from quarantine. THANK YOU SO MUCH CINZIA!! 🙏

Cinzia lives on an amazing neighborhood in Melbourne where you don’t even realize that you’re on a big city. It was ideal to reconnect with Kuna after 10 long days separated. We went for long walks along the Edgards Creek that is literally in front of her house. So many birds and nature in the middle of Melbourne! Incredible! 😍

After a few days at Cinzia’s place, Andreia and Kuna moved to St Kilda’s beach and started to prepare their journey from Melbourne to the Gold Coast where José was sailing to… ⛵️

Victoria is a very pet-friendly state and Kuna could go on all public transports (as long as she was on her crate) so our sailor dog took her first rides ever on buses, trains and trams like a good imported new aussie doggy! 🐶

We arrived at the beach pretty exhausted but immensely happy. Unforgettable days! 🍀

#KunaIsInAustralia! #DogImportation #DogInAustralia #TravellerDog #SailorDog #DogMate #MicklehamQuarantine #Mickleham #SailorDog #SaltyDog #AdoptedDog #RescuedDog #DogAroundTheWorld #TravelToAustraliaWithADog #ItsPossibleMate #BelieveInYourDreams ✨

Kuna in Vanuatu ready to take her first flight eve

Kuna in Vanuatu ready to take her first flight ever… 🥹

Where do you think we’re going?🧞‍♂️

#Kuna #RescuedDog #AdoptedDog #SailorDog #SaltyDog #TravellingWithDogs #DogAroundTheWorld 🐾

With this stunning fire show we said goodbye to Va

With this stunning fire show we said goodbye to Vanuatu…🥹

This is the same group of locals from Mele that performed the circus (see last post) and they also perform this amazing fire show at Mele Beach Bar every Friday🔥

Our experience in Vanuatu was incredible from the very beginning and we leave this beautiful country with our hearts fulfilled of gratitude🇻🇺

We’ll never forget the wonderful people and unique experiences we’ve lived here during the past 3 months. Tankyu tumas, Vanuatu! 🙏

The South Pacific cyclone season has officially started already so we must sail to a safer place out of the cyclone belt before it’s too late…🌪️

Guess what our next destination will be? 🤔

#Vanuatu #Efate #MeleBeach #FireShow #MeleBeachBar #SouthPacific #Melanesia #TankyuTumas

Every Sunday the local circus perform a show at th

Every Sunday the local circus perform a show at the Mele’s Beach Bar during the sunset just in front of the anchorage where we had Moskito! 🎪 🌅

We’ve watched it a couple of times and had a blast! It was such great fun to see the locals performing and their kids belly laughing of them. 🤡

What a pleasant way to wrap up a sunny Sunday at the beach in Vanuatu! 🙌

#Vanuatu #Efate #MeleBeach #MeleCircus #MeleBeachBar #LocalCircus #BeachCircus #SouthPacific #Melanesia

Diving in Vanuatu is spectacular! 🤩 We did a

Diving in Vanuatu is spectacular! 🤩

We did a few dives and got always surprised with the glassy visibility and enormous variety of sea life, specially soft corals. 🪸

Can you see a very poisonous crocodilefish (Cymbacephalus beauforti) on the 5th photo? 🐊🐡

We currently don’t have any equipment to take underwater photos (@GoPro please sponsor us!) so we were very lucky to make an immersion with the talented @carolynspictures that took and shared those wonderful pictures of beautiful our dive at Mele’s reef. Thank you, Askari! 📸🙏

#Vanuatu #VanuatuDiving #ScubaDive #SouthPacific #SoftCorals #VanuatuUnderwater #Crocodilefish #Cymbacephalus #beauforti

We’re amazed by the ni-vans (Vanuatu’s natives

We’re amazed by the ni-vans (Vanuatu’s natives) and specially the kids! 🇻🇺

The kids of the remote villages of Vanuatu are so curious and excited about us that we feel like we’re superstarts! 👨‍🎤🤣

Look at those kids from the northern villages of Ambrym! Their happiness is so contagious! 🤩

It has been an incredible experience to see those islands, villages, forests and people. Tangkyu tumas, Vanuatu! 🙏✨

#Vanuatu #Ambrym #Ranvetlan #Ranon #SouthPacific #NiVan #Melanesia

Our Moskito Valiente II dearly chilling at the gol

Our Moskito Valiente II dearly chilling at the golden hour in Vanuatu 🌅✨

#polarized ✌️😎

Obrigado meu amor…por pintar la vida de colores!

Obrigado meu amor…por pintar la vida de colores! 6 años ya!!! Tamuito!! ❤️❤️❤️

José & Kuna amazed by the volcanic landscape of M

José & Kuna amazed by the volcanic landscape of Marum crater of Ambrym Island in Vanuatu! 🌋

This island that has two active craters (Benbow and Marum) on a 12 km wide caldera with lava lakes, explosions, lava flows, ash plains and gas emissions. 🤯

Such a powerful place emerging straight from the depths of the South Pacific Ocean! 🌊

#MoskitoValiente #Vanuatu #Ambrym #ActiveVolcano #SouthPacific #Melanesia #Marum #Benbow 🌄

House, car & garden 💙💦 #MoskitoValient

House, car & garden 💙💦

#MoskitoValiente #Vanuatu #SouthPacific #LelepaIsland #SailingLife #SaltyLifestyle #LiveaboardLife

Espiritu Santo is another island that we visited i

Espiritu Santo is another island that we visited in Vanuatu. It has crystal clear water rivers that you can paddle up all the way into the jungle until you reach turquoise water pools known as Blue Holes 🌀

And if it was not enough, the river bed is covered with naturally hydroponic watercress that you can easily harvest directly from the board for a rewarding fresh salad after the long paddle up the river! 🌱
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#Vanuatu #EspirituSanto #BlueHole #Watercress #NaturallyHydroponic #Paddleboard #PaddleHarvesting #ClearRiver #BlueRiver #OysterBay

Today marks 12 years since our captain started thi

Today marks 12 years since our captain started this Moskito Valiente’s story! ✨

“GRACIAS… ya han pasado 12 años desde que el viento roló a mi favor y me llevó a descubrir nuevos horizontes y vivir, VIVIR, una vida que jamás fui capaz de soñar. Y continúo soñando, pero también descubriendo y aceptando que hay sueños que ya no conseguiré alcanzar y que hoy soy la persona que soy, ni más ni menos, ni mejor ni peor. Lo bueno, es que cuando un sueño se me escapa, siempre hay otros muchos nuevos que vienen a ocupar su lugar. Que cuando me equivoco, quizá volveré a tener la oportunidad de hacerlo mejor la próxima vez. Quizá es suficiente, pues lo importante es que intentaré con toda mi energía hacerlo lo mejor posible esta vez y de eso sí estoy absolutamente seguro. Y así es la vida, una aventura maravillosa llena de experiencias y retos. Muchos aprendizajes, aunque todos ellos incompletos, por lo que mi interés por continuar aprendiendo crece cada día hasta el punto de hacerme desesperar en algunos momentos. Y una única cosa echo de menos…el tiempo compartido con mi familia y los buenos amigos, que aunque los llevo siempre conmigo, no es lo mismo. Compartido, siempre sabe mejor. Eternamente agradecido a todas esas personas que hacen o han hecho que hoy, pueda escribir este texto con una enorme sonrisa.”

#MoskitoValiente

The typical houses in Vanuatu still have those int

The typical houses in Vanuatu still have those interesting raw braided bamboo walls since many centuries ago.🎍

The bamboo is not burned or treated. The locals just cut it in half, smash it to make it flat and braid it. 🛖

This simple wall is waterproof and very effective against insects invasions (there are lots of rain and insects here!) plus it makes the houses fresh inside. 🪰

It’s such an organic type of construction that you can’t even see the villages in the middle of the bush or from the beach. You just notice that there’s a house when you’re already pretty much inside of it! 🌳🇻🇺
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#Vanuatu #VanuatuHouse #VanuatuVillage #Bamboo #BambooHouse #TypicalHouse #OrganicHouse #LocalCulture #VanuatuLife #VanuatuStyle #Melanesia #SouthPacific #AncientArchitecture #SailingAroundTheWorld

A casual captain’s butt close up while trying th

A casual captain’s butt close up while trying the upgrades we’ve just made on our main and jib sails (👀 few posts back) on a downwind sail from Malekula to Espiritu Santo islands 🍑🔥😜

#MoskitoValienteII #DownwindSail #AsaDePombo #OrejaDeBurro #SouthPacificOcean #Melanesia #Vanuatu 🌬️⛵️

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