CONTENTS
Before the departure
2. Sailing in circles and sinking by the bow
Sydney to Darwin
3. Shooting stars and flying fish
Ashmore Reef, Christmas Island and Cocos Keeling to the Maldives
Addu Atoll
The Maldives to India
6. Through Pirate Alley with the Spanish navy
Oman to Eritrea
7. Wild, wild desert and flying sand
Eritrea to the Sudan
8. Angel Gabriel and a sting in the tail
Egypt and the Suez Canal to the Mediterranean
Israel to Turkey
Istanbul
The Greek Islands, Crete and Malta to Tunisia
Gibraltar to Graciosa Island
The Canary Islands to the mid-Atlantic
Mid-Atlantic to St Lucia
The Windward Islands
16. Kings, carnivals and AK-47s
Trinidad and Venezuela to Colombia
The San Blas
18. Wilting military cities and howling monkeys
The Panama Canal
Into the Pacific
The Galapagos
21. Heaven, hell and too many bananas
The Galapagos to the Marquesas
French Polynesia
The Cook Islands
Tonga to Fiji
Vanuatu
Vanuatu to Bundaberg
To Sydney
The awakening