Previous Diary Entries
2019
Dec 2019
2018
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Caramor’s turtle mascot is also taking a break
Wed 4 Dec 13:13
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THE END (for now...)
Wed 20 Nov 08:30 -
Whangarei
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Arrival Marsden Cove
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Land ahoy!
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Motoring
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The call centre in the sky
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Flat cakes and other things
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Not quite going backwards
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A bit bumpy
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Starry night
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Bumbling along in the Pacific
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Bye bye Suva
Thu 24 Oct 09:08 -
Back aboard Caramor in Suva
Sat 19 Oct 07:56 -
Back in Britain
Wed 9 Oct 11:52
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Matagi Island
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Sailing into yesterday
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Under water volcano eruption
Tue 20 Aug 08:40 -
Viani Bay
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Away at last
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The bus journey to Labasa
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Splash
Sun 21 Jul 09:00 -
Arrived in Fiji
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A bit about Fiji
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Land ahoy!
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Easterlies
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So far so good
Wed 10 Jul 22:33 -
Back to sea at last!
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Changes afloat
Sun 16 Jun 09:13 -
Metamorphosis
Mon 10 Jun 10:23
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Dragging kids up the Kiwi way
Wed 15 May 21:45
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Caramor still in Whangarei
Sun 14 Apr 09:30
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New Year’s Eve near Arthur’s Pass
Tue 1 Jan 10:46
Dec 2018
2017
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Bush Stream
Sat 29 Dec 10:13 -
Wishing you a very merry Christmas!
Tue 25 Dec 08:59 -
Five keas but no pear tree
Mon 24 Dec 23:48 -
Otago Peninsula to Aoraki/Mount Cook
Sun 23 Dec 08:58 -
By popular demand ... Jumbo!
Fri 21 Dec 09:31 -
Penguins
Wed 19 Dec 10:13 -
Touring ‘New Scotland’
Sun 16 Dec 08:45 -
Meeting old friends in Wanaka
Tue 11 Dec 20:34 -
More time on the Milford Road
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Milford Sound
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Butter boxes to lakes
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Glacier country
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A whistle stop tour of the west coast (South Island NZ)
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A busy first month in New Zealand
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Arrival in New Zealand
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The great cabbage patch
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Halfway around the world!
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Flying along
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Tongatapu (the last Tonga diary)
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Setting sail for New Zealand
Mon 15 Oct 12:00 -
The last of the Ha’apai
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Ha’apai and the whales
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Heading south to the Ha’apai group
Sun 23 Sep 09:28 -
Grey days in Vava’u
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The Fakaletis Show
Fri 14 Sep 06:55 -
The Tongan ‘kilt’
Thu 13 Sep 01:56 -
Ene’io Botanical Gardens
Wed 12 Sep 22:43 -
The Kingdom of Tonga where piggies taste better
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The day we lost forever
Mon 3 Sep 19:04
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Go Niue!
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Photos from the crossing to Niue
Tue 21 Aug 07:30 -
The Siren of Palmerston
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Missing the Cook Islands
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Becalmed in the (for once) Pacific Ocean
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Bora Bora
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Taha’a
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Huahine - to surf or not to surf
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Tiki Village Theatre
Tue 31 Jul 07:48 -
Moorea
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Tahiti
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Fakarava to Tahiti
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The night of the manta ray
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photos
Thu 19 Jul 22:45 -
Old friends and new
Sun 8 Jul 19:08
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Sharked out
Sun 24 Jun 04:08 -
Five hundred sharks in the night
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Discovering a new world
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The bottle top beach
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Desert island myth debunked
Mon 4 Jun 07:32 -
Picking up a mooring in South Fakarava
Sat 2 Jun 05:44 -
The Dangerous Archipelago
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Oa Pou
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The tattooed hitchhiker
Thu 24 May 06:10 -
The William Yacht Club
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Paradise revisited
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Searching for the pahi
Wed 16 May 03:37 -
Welcome to Vaitahu
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Aries is limping
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Fatu Hiva - in the eye of the beholder
Sun 13 May 06:59 -
Photos from a walk on Fatu Hiva
Fri 11 May 05:47 -
Paradise continued
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Marquesas first impressions
Wed 2 May 23:46
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Arrived at Hiva Oa
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Extreme cooking — or the travails of an ocean going foodie
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Hell hath no fury like a boat spurned
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Chafe — “Aye, there’s the rub. ” *
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The hare and the racing tortoise
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Less than a thousand
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Treatise On sleep
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Ship ahoy!
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A semblance of serenity returns
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Chirpy visitors
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Normal service to resume shortly
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Night watches
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Tradewind sailing
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The Pacific
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Franco shins up the mast
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Sailing life funnies
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Day 9
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Caramor dreams of white horses
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"There she blows!"
Fri 23 Mar 12:52 -
North with the Humboldt
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Back on the Ocean Blue
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The fridge has been liberated!
Sat 17 Mar 01:49 -
Groundhog Day
Sun 4 Mar 20:15
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A hard week's work
Sun 21 Jan 16:32
Dec 2017
Nov 2017
2016
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Tilcara to San Francisco in Argentina
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"Cry Havoc ... "
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James, I presume?
Fri 17 Nov 23:59 -
Salar de Uyuni photos
Fri 17 Nov 02:48 -
Searching for James
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Uyuni Salt Flat
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Potosí
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The man on the bus
Sun 12 Nov 02:16 -
Sucre - Capital of Bolivia
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(Not) Welcome to Bolivia
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Manco Cápac
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The other jungle experience
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Manu National Park (part 2)
Sat 28 Oct 16:04 -
Manu National Park (part 1)
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Getting to the jungle
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The Inca Avalanche
Fri 20 Oct 14:35 -
The old lady in Ollantaytambo Square
Thu 19 Oct 14:45 -
Something to prove
Wed 18 Oct 13:50 -
Biking to Moray and Maras salt pans
Sat 14 Oct 00:58 -
Pisaq - our favourite Inca site
Fri 13 Oct 22:12 -
Football fever
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Ausangate, the mountain of the gods
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The walk to Machu Picchu
Tue 3 Oct 03:17
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To Cusco!
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Our last week in Chucuito
Mon 25 Sep 20:29 -
A week long party in Acora
Thu 21 Sep 18:36 -
Lake Titicaca floating islands
Thu 14 Sep 03:39 -
Week two by Lake Titicaca
Mon 11 Sep 17:52 -
Pacollo
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A hard landing
Fri 1 Sep 02:49
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Arrival in Chucuito, Lake Titicaca, Peru
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Arica - still in Chile
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Iquique, The Big North, Chile
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La Serena, The Little North, Chile
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Briefly back in Valdivia
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Volunteering in Argentina
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Time out to visit Benjamin
Sat 5 Aug 13:59
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Back in Chile
Mon 17 Jul 03:56 -
Sitka spruce of the Oregon coast
Fri 14 Jul 21:24 -
The St Paul Rodeo
Tue 4 Jul 23:59 -
Mount St. Helens
Mon 3 Jul 20:44
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The disappearing lake
Wed 28 Jun 22:58 -
A Giant Leap for Caramor’s Crew
Sun 25 Jun 18:31 -
Valparaiso
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A crown in a week
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A hat in a night
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Gone Surfing
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Benjamin
Fri 19 May 14:30 -
Shiver me timbers!
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Escape from Malargüe!
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The day the President came to visit
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Malargüe, the two-clock good luck town
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A climber's best kept secret
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Malbec Country
Fri 5 May 21:55 -
Mendoza – a woodland city
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Allergic to Chile
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The Bariloche chocolate test
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The Welsh Connection
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Rock climbing at Cerro San Martín
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The Bus to Bariloche
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Where are all the people?
Wed 19 Apr 19:59 -
Kath's mother Joyce visits Chile
Wed 12 Apr 01:53
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The Night Zombies Attacked Valdivia
Fri 31 Mar 23:28 -
Celebration time in Puerto Montt!
Tue 14 Mar 20:16 -
From the Andes to the Sea - Part 2
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From the Andes to the Sea - a trek through the Esperanza Valley
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Valdivia, the adventure continues
Sat 4 Mar 04:29 -
An excursion to Northern Patagonia
Wed 1 Mar 02:43
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Heading South once again
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Conguillio and the monkey puzzles
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A bit of a waterfall theme
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The Wrong Villa Alegre
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River of the Cypresses National Park
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Cajon del Maipo and Santiago
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Hurrah, we've won a medal!
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The journey home (days 6-8)
Tue 7 Feb 20:59 -
Crossing the border (Day 5)
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Valle de la Esperanza horse trek
Dec 2016
2015
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Tsunami cancelled
Sun 25 Dec 19:25 -
Tsunami warning
Sun 25 Dec 16:03 -
Cochamó Valley horse trekking - The River Manso
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Cochamó Valley horse trekking - The People of the Andes
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Cochamó Valley horse trekking - Crossing the Cord illera Grande
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Cochamó Valley horse trekking - Meet the team
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A Hard Week’s Work
Thu 1 Dec 13:58
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Gritty town in the sunshine
Mon 28 Nov 12:26 -
Day 91 Jet-lag in Puerto Montt
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Day 90 trumps it all
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Day 89 Soft Canalexit
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Day 88 A grey day
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Day 87 A giant leap for Caramor
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Day 86 The home stretch
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Day 85 Sunbathing!
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Day 84 A very wet day
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Puyuhaupi Lodge
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Day 79 Four seasons in one minute
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Day 76 There and back again
Mon 31 Oct 00:55 -
Day 75 Anyone for a crab sandwich?
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Day 74 Regatta in Seno Aysén
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Pueblo chico, infierno grande
Wed 26 Oct 03:01 -
On the road to Chile Chico
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Day 67 Arrival in Puerto Chacabuco
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Day 66 Good tidings
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Heading north again
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Laguna San Rafael
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Day 63 First gate to Laguna San Rafael
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Day 62 Estero Elefantes
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Day 61 The return of the tern
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Times are hard
Thu 13 Oct 00:52 -
No rhyme nor reason to it!
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Three rainy days in Blaenau rolled into one
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Malibu with ice and a slice of orange please
Mon 10 Oct 01:48 -
Adrift in Bahia Anna Pink
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Day 53 The rain in Chile falls mainly …
Wed 5 Oct 23:42 -
The lighthouse on the peninsula
Wed 5 Oct 01:19 -
The bad smell of exclusivity
Mon 3 Oct 00:29
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Day 46 Golfo Sin Penas
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Day 45 Ready for the Golfo de Penas
Tue 27 Sep 18:22 -
Day 40 Dipping a toe in the gulf
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Day 38 Water water everywhere, but not in our tank!
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Rain!
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Tortel
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Day 34 Puerto Larenas to Caleta Noel
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Day 33 Not (yet) the Golfo de Penas
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Day 30 The Search for Caleta Caramor
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Day 29 Caleta Vittorío to Caleta Connor
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Day 28 The English Narrow
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A week in the Paradise of Eden
Sat 10 Sep 02:03 -
Not quite deja vu
Tue 6 Sep 17:15 -
Day 21 and 22 A very different meaning to the word 'coffee'
Mon 5 Sep 12:05 -
Day 20 Welcome to Edén
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Day 19 One way ticket to Caleta Grau
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Day 18 “Sin Novedad”
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Day 17 To Caleta Refugio where Franco goes swimming
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Day 14 Lack of moral fibre (but plenty of tree fibre)
Sun 28 Aug 01:55 -
Day 13 From the ‘Womb’ to Caleta Neruda
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Day 12 Sunshine sailing in Canal Pitt
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Day 10 Chickens escape to Steamer Duck Lagoon
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Encounters with a kingfisher
Tue 23 Aug 01:35 -
Day 6 Always a first time for everything
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Day 5 Caleta Moonlight Shadow to Caleta Damien
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Day 3 To Caleta Moonlight Shadow
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Day 2 Caleta Chandler to Caleta Punta José Goni (Canal Union)
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Day 1 Towards Puerto Mont
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Puerto Consuelo
Mon 15 Aug 03:26 -
Adversity, a New Friend and a Happy Ending
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Breaking News - Argentina claims sovereignty over the Channel Islands
Fri 5 Aug 02:29 -
Day 40 Arrival in Puerto Natales
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Day 39 Five Shades of Grey
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Day 38 Bahia Balaena to Caleta Cascada
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Day 36 Bahia Balaena, Estero Las Montañas
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Day 34 Estero de las Montañas - a little detour
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Day 33 Bahia Mallet to Caleta Jaime
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Day 32 Evi has a bad hair day on the way to Bahia Mallet
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Day 28 Paso Shoal - Take Two
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Day 25 A Hard Day’s Work
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Day 24 North
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Day 23 ‘South’
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Day 22 Caleta Playa Parda to Puerto Angosto
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Day 21 Tortuous Pass and Western reaches of the Strait of Magellan
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Day 20 Flying over the Alps in a sailing boat
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Day 19 Please Mind the Gap
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Day 18 Perfect sailing in Canal Cockburn
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Day 16 Caleta Macias to Caleta Brecknock
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Day 15 Pozo Marit to Isla Macia
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Day 14 Emelita to Pozo Marit
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Day 11 Technical Tantrums
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Day 10 The Land of the Yaghan
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Weather cocktail on Isla Gordon (Days 8-9)
Fri 1 Jul 00:06
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Day 7 Olla to Caleta Cinco Estrellas
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A few surprises in Caleta Olla (Days 4-6)
Mon 27 Jun 21:42 -
Day 3 Puerto Borracho to Caleta Olla
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Day 2 Santa Rosa to Puerto Borracho
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Day 1 Williams to Caleta Santa Rosa
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Sailing up the Beagle Channel
Wed 22 Jun 01:06 -
Countdown to the Canales
Sun 5 Jun 21:54 -
Back to Williams
Thu 2 Jun 01:56
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Pomp and Ceremony for Navy Week
Tue 24 May 01:10 -
Time out
Sun 22 May 14:55 -
The Wild Mothers of Williams
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Punta Arenas
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Pneumonia aboard
Mon 2 May 15:26
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The King of Patagonia
Sat 30 Apr 15:18 -
Early Snow
Sat 23 Apr 21:45 -
Williams
Tue 12 Apr 14:36 -
Arrival in Chile
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Arrived in Chile
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Bye bye Stanley
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Saunders Island
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Still in Stanley
Mon 14 Mar 19:40
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Return to Stanley
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Over Halfway
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Towards Stanley
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Back to Rosita's embrace
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Walking in South Georgia
Wed 17 Feb 00:45 -
Gentoo penguins - the quiet ones
Wed 17 Feb 00:45 -
Blue Whale Harbour
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A Dirty Week-End in Husvik
Wed 10 Feb 23:46 -
The mysterious life of elephant seals
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Grytviken Regatta
Dec 2015
2014
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Goose Green and Bodie Creek
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East Falkland cruising
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Trendy Stanley in the Falkland Islands
Fri 18 Dec 01:59 -
Passage to the Falklands
Thu 10 Dec 02:22 -
Here in a Hooley
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Hanging out with the Albatrosses
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Heading South
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Final Preparations
Sat 21 Nov 23:36 -
Promotion at last!
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Afloat once again!
Thu 12 Nov 02:19 -
Barbarian!
Sun 8 Nov 16:07 -
Montevideo
Wed 4 Nov 13:24 -
Rodeo
Sun 1 Nov 03:04
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What is the difference between a propeller and a bucket?
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When sailors turn gauchos - Yvytu Itaty, a splendid experience!
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Uruguay - the 'small' country in South America
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Arrival in Uruguay
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A windy passage from Brazil to Uruguay
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Ilhabela - last stop in Brazil
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The strange inhabitants of Ilha Anchieta
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Mamangua is for sale!
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Paraty
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Searching for bugio, the howler monkey
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Ilha Grande - Sailing around Big Island
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More ... Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics
Sat 8 Aug 02:16 -
Big Foot and Snow Crash - Mangaratiba
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Ilha Grande (with lots of photos)
Thu 30 Jul 00:43 -
On to Ilha Grande
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Rio de Janeiro
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Cabo Frio
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B for Buzios and Brigitte Bardot
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Vitória
Wed 1 Jul 19:22
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Sailing to Victory and the Holy Spirit
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Santo André and the Pataxó Indigenous People
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Ilhéus, State of Bahia, Brazil
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Money may not grow on trees but chocolate does!
Tue 9 Jun 19:58 -
High and (nearly) dry!
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Ihla do Campinho, Baia de Camamu
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Car-free Brazil
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Itaparica in the winter
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Everything but the kitchen sink!
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Chapada Diamantina National Park
Mon 18 May 12:00 -
Nepal Disaster
Thu 7 May 17:20 -
Paddling in darkest Brazil
Sun 3 May 13:48 -
Escaped from the treacle ...
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Itororó waterfall, Matarandiba island, near Itaparica
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An Excursion up the River Paraguaçu
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Salvador de Bahia
Sun 19 Apr 19:20 -
Arrival in Brazil
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Day 20
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Tranquilo, Tranquilo
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Ambling along in the Retails
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Searching for the SE Trades
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Crossing the Equator
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Becalmed ...
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Dawdling along in the Doldrums
Sat 14 Mar 14:15 -
Friday the Thirteenth
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It's a Big Ocean
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Baia dos Ferreiros, Brava and onwards
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How to send a parcel to Cape Verde
Thu 5 Mar 22:59 -
An excursion to Santo Antão
Thu 5 Mar 22:49
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Mindelo, São Vicente
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Tarrafal, São Nicolau
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Carnival!
Wed 18 Feb 15:38 -
A breezy day round São Nicolau
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Crossing from Sal to São Nicolau
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Sal ('salt' in portuguese)
Wed 11 Feb 00:40 -
Photos from the Crossing
Sat 7 Feb 00:20 -
Dropped anchor in the Cape Verde
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Enter the Tropics
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Bowling along in the Trade Winds
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Onwards towards the west coast of Ireland ... errr I mean El Hierro
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Back to La Gomera ... just!
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Of Weddings, Tables and Toilets
Fri 23 Jan 09:58 -
Mountain biking 'Brompton style'
Thu 8 Jan 21:05 -
Epiphany
Tue 6 Jan 22:00 -
New Project
Thu 1 Jan 20:48 -
El Teide - the highest peak in Spain
Thu 1 Jan 16:44
Dec 2014
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Jean and Ross call by on Boxing Day
Sat 27 Dec 00:19 -
Our first Christmas afloat
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La Palma
Wed 24 Dec 22:05 -
Creatures Great and Small
Mon 22 Dec 14:03 -
Fast passage to Tazacorte, La Palma
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La Gomera
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Gran Canaria
Mon 1 Dec 20:10 -
Hell
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Lanzarote - A whistle-stop tour
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Isla Graciosa
Mon 13 Oct 16:24 -
Change of Plan
Tue 7 Oct 13:14 -
Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics
Tue 7 Oct 13:14 -
Rabat to the Canaries
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From the medina to the marina
Sun 5 Oct 13:13 -
Meknes
Sun 5 Oct 13:09
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The High Atlas (Part 2)
Wed 24 Sep 08:11 -
Images from Rabat
Mon 22 Sep 20:50 -
The High Atlas (Part 1)
Sat 20 Sep 10:57 -
Rabat, Morocco
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Party, Party
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Up the Guadalquivir river, all the way to Sevilla
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Lagos to the Quadalquivir river, Spain
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Fancy a Full English?
Wed 20 Aug 09:48 -
Outrageous (Skipper's word) sail to Lagos, Algarve
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Not just a holiday, you know!
Wed 13 Aug 15:23 -
Heading for Lisboa
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Aveiro and the Portuguese heartland
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Our first proper sailing party!
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Porto do Leixoes 41:11.09N 8:42.34W
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Ribeira Ninho, Portugal
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Portugal plans
Tue 15 Jul 16:36 -
Baiona (La Real)
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Photos From Previous Entry
Mon 14 Jul 10:29 -
Meeting up with Dos Tintos
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Meeting up with Anxeles in Sanxenxo
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Ría de Muros
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The End of the Earth
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The Death Coast
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Mutiny on Caramor
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Summer solstice in Ria de Barquero
Sat 21 Jun 16:37 -
EPIRB arrival, lively Gijon and moving on
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Idyllic Biscay
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Cycling around the Crozon Peninsula
Wed 11 Jun 06:24 -
Bonjour de Camaret, Brittany!
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Jumping humpbacks and crab claws for dinner
Tue 3 Jun 14:14
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Castlehaven
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Off to the Emerald Isle
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Ready at last!
Wed 21 May 09:23 -
Sunny day in Holyhead
Mon 12 May 13:35
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Engine in - Engine out
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Open Day
Tue 15 Apr 20:53
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Open Day
Mon 17 Mar 21:03
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Winter Berth
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Winter Weather
Thu 13 Feb 09:42