POTW: Swimming with whales

Swimming With Whales

Nov 22, 2018

We have kept our subscription to Canadian Yacht Onboard as we have traveled the South Pacific over the last few years but never thought of submitting anything.  

We are a Canadian family of five cruising in the Pacific on our Stevens 47.  The two older children were 6 and 8 when we started and little Benjamin was born in Mexico while we were preparing the boat to cross the Pacific.  He was four months old at the start of the crossing.  Now we have two teenagers and the little one is almost five!

Please find attached our submission to the POTW from swimming with whales in Tonga and a link to the story:  http://sv-fluenta.blogspot.com/2018/10/swimming-with-whales-and-other-close.html.

Cheers,
Max Shaw
SV Fluenta
SV-Fluenta.blogspot.ca
Currently Taveuni, Fiji

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