There are still uninhabited tropical isles...

[CapnK]

...not many, but they are out there...

Google Earthing my way to a place much warmer and sunnier than here... The inviting white sand beaches of Iles Maria.... Ahhh...

Just off the NW coast:  21°47'47.28"S, 154°43'15.27"W

Looks like I'd have to wait for just the right day, get in close to scout the reef for a place I could slip Katie's 3'6" draft through & between the coral heads at high tide...

;D

[Tim]

 ;D Gee thanks for blasting my afternoon to pieces  ;)  ;D

[sailorflo]

Hey you cant hog the last island for yourself, Good thing that you left the lat and long.

[Auspicious]

Swell.

You sent me off on a Google-fest. I can't find detail, only that the lagoon is reported to be "very shallow." Not sure if that means 2 feet or 8 feet. <grin> I might not fit in there. Heck, *YOU* may not fit in there.

I do think you just decided to fit a watermaker though. It is quite a way to anywhere. Have to spend some time on noonsite understanding French Polynesia immigration policy -- Tahiti is probably the last big place on the way to Isle Maria.

I did find Ocean Dots in Googling around which is very cool. They have an atoll gallery of pictures from low earth orbit of lots of atolls (not all - see their criteria for inclusion).

[CapnK]

Dave - a solar still or two at bare minimum, if you were gonna hang out for a while... :)

I got to looking around down there because I wanted to see Raivavae, which Webb Chiles mentions in "Storm Passage", after he's left Tahiti the first time and is headed towards the Horn.



I tried looking at some others, but couldn't see them too well - I think Tim was in the way... ;)

Ocean Dots is a way cool site - Grog to ya fer that one! ;D

[CapnK]

One thing to note about the images at Ocean Dots: many of the images - almost all that I've seen - have been rotated away from their actual alignment in a N-S axis. Just an FYI, fer anybody looking at them... :)

[sailorflo]

Ocean dots , to cool

[Tim]

I tried looking at some others, but couldn't see them too well - I think Tim was in the way... ;)

Cloaking device  ;) Keeps the riff-raff out ;D

[Lynx]

Just go south of Andros Island Bahamas, Uncharted and you are on your one. Also in the Bight of Abaco.

[Pappy Jack]

Hey Lynx,

SSSHHHHHH ;D!!! Lets keep that info to ourselves!!!   :-X

Fair wind and full sails,

Pappy Jack

[sailorflo]

I think I,ve got a job in the abacos. I hope ::) ::)