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With family and friends spread across the globe and over so many different timezones, it took us 18 hours to ring in 2018.

It started with thoughts of all our cruising friends still in the South Pacific, particularly Fiji and New Zealand. Then it was our turn in Australia. From there our thoughts crossed the Indian Ocean to family living in Dubai and onto family and friends in South Africa, Austria, England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland. Next was the Atlantic Ocean crossing and onto all our cruising friends in the Caribbean and friends on the east coast of America. We got to speak to Keenan just after he landed in Miami after completing his shift and just before "his" midnight. Finally a phone call to Brooke and the grandchildren in Arizona before everyone we know in Arizona and the west coast of America commenced their celebrations. It was Keenan's question, while chatting to Roy: "What's it like in the future dad", that succinctly summed it up!

The answer, of course, is anyone's guess, but from where we're sitting, after a lazy day aboard Paw Paw, having made it through the 0830 Spit Bridge opening this morning and back to our swing mooring in the beautiful Roseville Chase anchorage, it looks bright!

We hope you enjoy the two part video of our New Year's adventure which we loaded up to the website this evening. Part one is our sail from Southport to Sydney, in the company of dolphins and whales, as well as the build up to the "Greatest Show", with Part Two the complete fireworks display, unedited, just as we saw it floating in Sydney Harbour. Once you've seen it, we're sure you'll agree, it was indeed spectacular!

Enjoy 2018 everyone and to all our followers in over 80 countries, as far afield as, Albania, Algeria, Ukraine, Russia, Canada, China, America, New Zealand, Maldives, Norway, Poland, France, Philippines, Romania, Hungary, Korea, Thailand, Netherlands, Italy, Vietnam, Czech Republic, Brazil, Iran, Belarus, Denmark, Germany, Austria, UK, United Arab Emirates, South Africa, Portugal, Singapore, Lithuania, Croatia, Belgium, Turkey, Azerbaijan, Japan, Chile, Panama, Pakistan, Burundi, Tunisia, Saudi Arabia, India, Korea, Latvia, Servia, Kenya, Nigeria, Malaysia, Argentina, Australia, Ghana, Moldovia, Hong Kong, Fiji, Finland, Indonesia, Mexico, Cambodia, Spain, Sint Maarten, Puerto Rico, Reunion, Sweden, Morocco, Bangladesh, Bahamas, Armenia, Colombia, Barbados, Sri Lanka, Seychelles, Israel, St Lucia, Mongolia, Switzerland, Georgia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Peru, Kazakhstan and Greece, we hope you continue to enjoy our journey with us!

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