Swell Archives - TravelsFinders.Com ® http://travelsfinders.com/tag/swell Tue, 06 Nov 2018 18:09:32 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.4 The Great Escape http://travelsfinders.com/the-great-escape.html http://travelsfinders.com/the-great-escape.html#respond Tue, 13 Nov 2018 03:00:00 +0000 http://travelsfinders.com/?p=262924 Finally, after more than four months under Rainui’s rule, it’s getting close to the time for me to make the final break. Swell is lowered back into the sea with beautiful new seafoam-green decks and topsides. A boat with two young men is tied up near Swell in the slipway, and Rainui is instantly jealous. I watch his mood unravel and placate him as much as possible. That night I hear him come in and lie down on the other side of the bed. For many months he has stopped being affectionate, and rarely pushes to be intimate. I wait

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]]> http://travelsfinders.com/the-great-escape.html/feed 0 South Pacific Surf Vacations & Trips http://travelsfinders.com/south-pacific-surf-vacations-trips.html http://travelsfinders.com/south-pacific-surf-vacations-trips.html#respond Thu, 08 Nov 2018 16:12:00 +0000 http://travelsfinders.com/?p=262894 With a swift jab of my knife to its brain, I watch its neon-purple stripes fade and retractable dorsal fin go limp. An hour later I find myself in a nervous fluster, approaching my first atoll pass. My Charlie’s Charts guideblog explains, “A pass is a break in the circular coral atoll that, if deep enough, allows entrance into the calmer waters inside the atoll’s interior lagoon.” The blog also describes this particular pass as “difficult, with only a forty-five-foot wide channel and currents reaching velocities of six knots or more.” I’m supposed to enter the pass “on slack low

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