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Karin Van Zyl
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Jan 16
St Helena Island
The first time we climbed up Jacob’s Ladder I was the first to reach the top, and my sisters were behind me. I felt like the King of the Castle! Or rather, Queen. When we went to the tourist office, and my dad asked if there were any Baptist churches, I didn’t like the idea …
Jan 15
Saint Helena – Religion
We really wanted to visit a church while on St. Helena. The different options listed on the website were: Anglican, Roman Catholic, Baptist, Jehovah’s Witnesses and even Bahai. We chose to try the Baptist church, but did not know what we would find. They have an evening service, so we decided to listen to one …
Jan 15
What St. Helena was like . . .
St. Helena was much more hilly that I expected, and had a lot more people. Expectations were a little bit far-fetched in terms of isolation, but it was still pretty cool in terms of ‘smallness’. In Jamestown itself, it was extremely hot and humid (compared to what I’m used to, anyway – not looking forward …
Jan 15
Birds – by Franci
For all those who don’t know me, I am very interested in birds. I am the kind of person who will look up at every chirp I hear, and it is literally a reflex now to look up whenever a shadow passes over me. So you can all expect at least one reference to birds …
Jan 14
St Helena – Shopping
We are sailing away from St. Helena at the moment. The last internet access we had was in South Africa. This means that you’ll have to wait for the photos until we get to Rio. Sorry The St. Helenian people call themselves “Saints” and so will I. Saints are very friendly people. They do not …
Jan 14
St Helena Island – Karin Jnr.
Hi everyone!!!! The St. Helena experience was very nice but now we are back on the ocean and are going to start school tomorrow . We will have to face school some time anyway. (humungous sigh). Anyway, back to the subject: St. Helena has extraordinarily high mountains and from the anchorage all you can see …
Jan 13
St. Helena
So many things to tell. The people, the places, the experiences. We loved it all! We are very privileged to have been able to visit St. Helena. The children wanted very much to “land” as soon as possible. Especially Sophia. She was so scared that if we slept overnight in the harbour, we would lose …
Jan 02
St. Helena – First Landfall
JAAAAYYYYYYY! What an amazing thing!!! To see land after 16 days on board. After seeing nothing but blue ocean in every direction, suddenly there it was. A black smudge on the horizon. All of us just had to scramble on top to see. By the way, it is possible to see land at 35 nautical …
Dec 29
Karin’s Blog =P
The first week was the part no one enjoyed cos we all just felt sick, we didn’t have much of an appetite only ate like half a meal a day but then we started to feel better and actually started to eat down at the table two meals a day and everything. One thing I …
Dec 26
Sophia
No matter how the numbers on the screen might show that we are getting nearer to St. Helena, to me it feels as if we remain in a big blue circle going nowhere, bobbing in the middle. We haven’t seen anything else for 5 days, including boats. I think that Flying Fish have very small …
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