Touring Cape Agulhas & The Winelands….. To see the PHOTO GALLERY associated with this Ship\’s Blog: CLICK HERE March 16 – March 20th, 2013 (Eastern Hemisphere) As Cape Agulhas held special meaning (along with the Cape of Good Hope), for Cindy and me, I felt a personal visit would be in order. When Alexandra …
Simon\’s Town to Cape Town….. March 15th, 2013 (Eastern Hemisphere) It was time to finally move the boat the 50 mile trip from Simon\’s Town in False Bay to Cape Town. By car, this trip takes about 35 minutes as it\’s only about 17 miles. But by boat, we had to go 15 miles south …
Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe……. March 9th – 11th, 2013 (Eastern Hemisphere) Well we had such a good time in Namibia (and yet a bit of time before we would be off to Cape Town with the boat), so Nikki suggested we fly to Victoria Falls on the Zimbabwe/Zambia border. This waterfall made famous by the one …
Namibia by Air and Land….. To see the PHOTO GALLERY associated with this Ship\’s Blog: CLICK HERE February 26 – March 3rd, 2013 (Eastern Hemisphere) As I had wanted to see more of Africa, I made arrangements through a cruiser that Cindy and I had met in Bora Bora in 2010. James Sale (cute uh?) …
Touring Simon\’s Town & Cape Town, South Africa….. February 18-24th, 2013 (Eastern Hemisphere) After our lovely greeting by the cruising community to assist our docking at False Bay Yacht Club, we were moved over to the inner wide berths for multihulls. This was a mixed blessing. It did get us out of a lot of …
Touring Simon\’s Town & Cape Town, South Africa….. Read More »
Knysna to Simon\’s Town, Around Cape Aghulhas – End Book Two….. 16 February – 17 February, 2013 As the \”Heads\” had such a bad nautical reputation and our next weather window would be blustery, we again planned our exit cautiously. This time, prepared from Cousin Gill that the \”heads\” had a web cam, we sent …
Knysna to Simon\’s Town, Around Cape Agulhas – End Book Two .. Read More »
Knysna….. 12 February – 15 February, 2013 We left Port Elizabeth with lovely Southeasterly conditions and after clearing the point, we were soon able to set sail. The trip would be all day, all night with a 7 a.m. arrival to enter the infamous Knysna Heads right before high tide. These \”heads\”, which are two …
Port Elizabeth to Knysna….. 09 February – 12 February, 2013 We pulled into Algoa Bay Yacht Club in Port Elizabeth late in afternoon and luckily were able to get a slip assignment before the dock master left for the day. First of all, the docks here were extremely surgey. Worse, they were lined with rusty …
Richards Bay to Durban, South Africa….. 02 February – 08 February 2013 Alexandra and I had just had a lovely time exploring the Thorny Bush Game park near Kruger National Park in northeast South Africa. Included was a spectacularly scenic drive near Nelspruit, just west of Swaziland. The game park was terrific with sightings of …
Richards Bay to Port Elizabeth with stop in Durban .. Read More »
01 February 2013 (Eastern Hemisphere) UTC +2 Dear F&F, After some R&R in Santa Barbara and London, I\’ve returned back to South Africa with Alexandra Deegan from the UK who will crew with me from Richard\’s Bay to Cape Town. Once in Cape Town, Alexandra will head back to the UK and Nicola Woodrow will …