Time to Leave
Oldnick
Thu 2 Jan 2003 20:50
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Our time in Rio has been short (just 9 days)
but extremely enjoyable. We managed to take in the obvious sights such as
Sugarloaf, Corcovada (Christ the Redeemer), Copacabana and Santa Teresa. We
ate and drank like kings and had a hell of a time. New Year was awesome on
Copacabana Beach (with 2 million other party-goers - true!).
The trip to Cape Town is going to be a bit more
challenging from a weather perspective than the one down to Rio, but
we expect to make as good speed. It is an almost identical length of 3400 miles
although we have to head slightly south of Cape Town for the approach. We leave
tomorrow (Jan 3). All the boat maintenance has been done (a few little
jobs) and we only have to do the final shopping for provisioning and top up
with diesel before we go. We are down to three crew now as Mick flew home
to England and will fly to Cape Town to meet us there. The watch system
will be different - we'll let you know how it goes.
Karyn and Craig in front of "Christ the Redeemer"
just before Karyn accepted Craig's proposal of
marriage
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