March 2011 - returning to Australia. it certainly wasn't planned but the timing was right - Brian (and eventually Gill) is going back to work! The story of our journey back in the next post.

February 2011 - cruising in Palawan, The Philippines

December 2010 - we've flown over to Australia - the first time back in 3 years - for a 2 month break from cruising.

July 2010 - have reached Borneo and having a very different cruising experience - the whole coastline
is virtually unexploited. Borneo's not fully on the tourist trail (yet!!!) and there's heaps of things to do.

May 2010 - we are now cruising amongst the wonderful islands of the Malaysian east coast.

April 2010 - one of our email addresses bgmaxlow@gmail.com was recently spammed. If you are currently using this email address, please remove it from your contacts list and place a block on that address in your email program - this will stop spam email being sent to you using that email address.

January 2010 - A very happy New Year to all our family and friends - hope your celebrations were as great as ours :-) We're now in Thailand, travelling north along the west coast of Thailand and enjoying being in new and unfamiliar territory.

November 2009 - had a brilliant time in Danga Bay, Johor Bahru but it's time to be on our way again. Leaving in the next few days for a sail (we hope!) north towards Pangkor, Penang, Langkawi and then onto Phuket, Thailand.

August 2009 - still berthed at Danga Bay, Johor Bahru, Malaysia. We've just returned from a fantastic 2 week trip to Southern Vietnam (Saigon/HCMC to Hue) which Brian will cover in a future update. Plans are underway to get back to Vietnam sometime in the not too distant future to visit Northern Vietnam (Hue to Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh Trail and mountain areas) - the country is so spread out that it's almost impossible to see both North and South Vietnam comfortably in one go :-)

July 2009 - finally managed to leave Penang (yeah, all doctor appointments finished!) for a leisurely sail to Jahor Bahru. While in Penang, we visited Cambodia (which Gillian will cover in the August update) mainly to explore Angkor Wat and other temples at Siem Reap, with a quick look around Phnom Penh.

5th June 2009 - The posting of 14th February only just uploaded as we've had visitors, maintenance issues and computer problems. Most maintenance issues are now out of the way and we now have a new laptop, so back in business :-) We'll be back to monthly updates from hereon.

8th January 2009 - arrived at Ao Chalong, Phuket, Thailand. Cruising through Phang Nga Bay.

26th December 2008 - anchored at Telaga Harbour, Langkawi; getting ready for sailing to Thailand

13th November 2008 - arrived at Danga Bay, Johor Bahru for the start of the Sail Malaysia rally (east coast) www.sailmalaysia.net

Welcome to our Web site, where friends, family and anyone remotely interested can check on our progress as we go cruising on our trusty yacht Destiny III.

Travel has always held great interest for us - combining this with a love of sailing gave us the idea that living and traveling on the boat could be a lifestyle that we’d love.

The philosophy of ‘we’re not getting any younger’ and ‘do it while you can’ brought us to a point where we decided to ‘chuck in’ our perfectly good jobs, and give it a go, cruising the world in Destiny. The adventure for us is more about exploring different countries, experiencing new cultures, and the people we’ll meet, rather than the ‘goal’ being just to complete a circumnavigation. Hence, keeping to the ‘warm bits’ and staying put if the weather isn’t right are the way we’ll go - no hero stuff for us if we can avoid it.

The current plan is to join a cruising rally from Darwin through Indonesia in 2008, for approximately three months. From there we’ll visit Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand. The rough plan after that could be Mauritius, South Africa, Rio, Panama Canal through to the South Pacific Islands. Trip duration – maybe 3 years but who knows?

We aim to update "where are we ?" page at least monthly, with intermittent updates to "routes", "the mission" and "Destiny III" pages (for example changes to the cruising plan, latest news, or upgrades to Destiny). However, this is dependant on being within range of an internet connection, which usually means built up areas. As we’re getting to more remote places, the opportunity to upload will be few and far between, so don't think we've fallen off the face of the earth if there's no news, or if we haven’t responded to emails.

If you'd like to get email notification of our updates, register at http://www.watchthatpage.com.
List the pages you're interested in (the address bar in your web browser displays the address of the webpage your viewing - copy all that text and insert it into www.watchthatpage.com). A very handy service!

And if you feel like it, you could drop us a line via email.