So what did we miss most? We were able to manage our water, fuel and electricity use carefully, provisions ran a bit low but we were happy to eat simply, we were more than happy not to get newspapers to read about the ongoing political turmoil/squabbles and wars, but we did miss emails/whats apps etc from family and friends - away from “civilisation” (albeit only for a few days and not far away!) its very clear whats most important in life. A great benefit of this area is that there are so many islands, most days we can choose where we go based on the wind direction**. The downside is there are also so many rocks, shoals etc around that there’s a lot of careful navigation/pilotage to do. Some passages between islands are quite narrow and had only a metre or so under the keel so careful nav work required.