Getting Ready in Opua

Last minute preparations underway. – By Hugh Hey Folks, Just a super quick note to let you know that we’re madly getting Khulula and the crew ready to leave New Zealand in the next few days. We can’t wait! The next leg it going to be incredible. The...

The Calm Before the Storm

Getting Ready to Go – by Hugh Hi folks. Wow, long time, no blog. Well, that’s all about to change. Next week the crew will be converging on Opua to commence Operation “Passage to Fiji” and the start of the second leg of our fantastic voyage. We’re stoked!...

Good Water Bottles

New Zealand is rad. Kiwis are rad. The Good Water project is also rad. – by Hugh If there is 1 item that we could single out and say “Stop throwing it out” it would be plastic bottles: Water bottles, pop bottles, oil bottles, shampoo bottles, all kinds of...

Swallowed at Sea?

Location: New Zealand – All Points – by Hugh Well, my apologies to our regular blog readers for whom it has been a long time since our last update. You’re probably asking yourselves “What the heck is going on with the Oceangybe Expedition? They...

3 Months in New Zealand – A little bit of Learning.

Retrofit, Explore and …um… work. by Bryson I am currently sitting in Dunedin on the southern end of the south island of New Zealand. It is calm and sunny day outside, I can see the swells slowly bend around the headland as the head for the beach. The seagulls are...

On the Hard

Busy days while on “The Hard” -by Ryan Location: Ashby’s Boat Yard, Opua, Bay of Islands, New Zealand. December 2007 Over the past 6 months, “We’ll do it in New Zealand” had become a catchphrase aboard Khulula, always when referring...