Feb 23
We spent a whopping 3 months in Trinidad! This was NOT planned and didn’t fit our supposed schedule very well. However…. it did give us ample time to try out all the yummy foodstuffs available in Trinidad. It was a very good thing that we left when we did, otherwise we might have been too …
Dec 30
To our South African minds, just the name Trinidad sounded exotic. At last we were going to enter the Carribean – that elusive body of blue–blue waters that the Beach Boys sing about. Well………..Trinidad is certainly exotic. Life here is different and beautiful. But, blue-blue water? Uh…….no. The seawater here runs all the way from …
Nov 26
Hi again. I have been notified that it is time for me to blog again. So here I am blogging. I decided to blog about Trinidad – rather than go on from where I left off, which was Salvador, right? Well, since then we stopped at French Guyana. It was a fascinating place and we …
Nov 16
This blog is going to be a summary of our Grandmother’s stay with us on the boat. (So, basically a summary of all the sights we saw during her visit, with some photos.) We were very chuffed that our grandmother was coming – hey, we get an aircon and a car! (We are still hiring …
Nov 16
Believe it or not, but since we left Cape Town – during this entire trip – not one fish was interested in our trolling fishing line. Well. . . okay there was one, but we only noticed because there was no longer a lure on the line when we pulled it in. I changed the lure one or …
Nov 11
Here goes my blog. The first 5 days were horrible because practically my whole family was sick. But the days after that was very beautiful. The water was very blue and clear and when we swam in the sea there was a school of fish it was very amazing. There were dolphins that jumped fully …
Nov 04
We left Salvador to go to Ilha Itaparica – one of the renowned islands in Salvador Bay. It usually takes 2 hours to motor to the island, but the wind was from the right direction and, of course, we sailed 🙂 It took us about 4 hours to reach the anchorage of Itaparica Town. This counts as …
Oct 21
NEXT THING TO DO ON OUR LIST: : Go UP the Lacerda Elevator to the Historical Centre of Salvador. The Elevator takes 22 seconds to rise 72 meters. It can take 126 people at a time in 4 separate lifts. The queues are VERY long during peak hours, but they were not too long at 10h00 in the morning. Many …
Oct 14
We showered (under running water), we slept (without night-watches and worry), breakfasted late and listened to a Church Service online. At last, we were ready to exercise our land muscles. We were moored at the Centro Nautica marina situated at the foot of “Old Town” or the “Historic Centre” of Salvador. This is where Salvador’s …
Oct 12
We started seeing Salvador’s lights around midnight. It was very dark and we were approaching the land under sail. Why? Because our engine broke – again. The wind was very light so this was definitely not by choice. But then…… if we had the “luxury” of using the engine, we wouldn’t have been near Salvador …
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