Oct 2016 archive

Canada – First Impressions – by the Mom

The temperature of the air started dropping about halfway through our trip from Florida to Nova Scotia. How did we know? We got through a whole day without perspiring. Next thing, we needed jackets (or something) when sitting in the cockpit. Things were looking on the up and up. Soon after this, the nights cooled right down and we …

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Trip to Canada

I had big plans for sailing up to Canada. All that time! I could finally catch up some neglected school! Yeah, that didn’t really happen. What did happen was that we had a week of good sailing, then about three days headwinds. They weren’t all that comfortable. We weren’t seasick, but it’s amazing how your body just …

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Kennedy Space Centre – by Franci and Karin Jr.

F. Okay, this blog about Kennedy Space Centre is going to be an interesting one, because to get it going Marike got Karin and I to write on this blog together. I’ll write a paragraph, then Karin will write a paragraph. That’s the plan, anyway. We’ll just have to see how this goes. . . …

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All the Parks we visited – as captioned by Marike ;)

When telling someone about Disney World, I always tell them there are two extremes. Either I can rave about how fantastic it was, (detail, acting, colours . . . ) or I can tell you exactly why you should never visit Disney World ever. I really enjoyed the experience of all the parks we visited, …

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Florida – by Karin Joan

Many of you may already know that Florida is where Disney world is. Well, technically Orlando is where Disney world is. Anyway, we are anchored in Florida, at a place called Cocoa beach. We rented a car, and yeah we went to Disney world. There are four parks in Disney world: Epcot; Animal Kingdom; Magic …

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Crossing to Florida – by the Mom

We left Fajardo knowing that we had to meet up with AmarSemFim at the mouth of San Juan harbour. They had patiently waited for us in San Juan all the while that we were at Fajardo, wanting to sail with us to Florida. However, it was only for the first few days that we managed …

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