http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/BuscoGusto/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from BuscoGusto en-us Thu, 17 Dec 2009 11:10:54 +0000 Thu, 17 Dec 2009 11:10:54 +0000 As a followup to my last log entry..On November 19 I performed a speech in Kingston about my Water Adventure to raise funds for a local charity called Able Sail Kingston which provides sailing opportunities and instruction to disabled sailors.About 75 people attended and the event raised over 2000 which blew away our expectations The event was calledHitchhiker's Guide to the Oceans A 460 http://www.travelblog.org/Oceans-and-Seas/blog-458032.html It has been 6 months since returning home after the Water Adventure. Life has more or less returned to normal after a long hard period of adjustment. I am once again becoming comfortable with the difficult business of everyday life.The stress of returning to work dealing with pressing family issues finances moving into a new home and juggling extracurricular activities has begun to subside an http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/Ontario/Kingston/blog-450813.html I have disturbed the lives of one million flying fishI have witnessed and often instigated the wanton destruction of sailboat partsI have eaten badly and accumulated so many stomach bugs that they cancel eachother outBut now I am drinking champagne and toasting these sins becauseI have sailed around the worldThere. I said it. After 360 degrees of longitude and 25000 nautical miles of oce http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Panama/Panama/Panama-Canal/blog-394401.html Ah the warm sweet waters of the Caribbean Sea. It's good to be backThis is just a sumup blog of the Atlantico Project with random pictures from Brazil Tobago Grenada St. Vincent and the Grenadines St. Lucia and Martinique. I finally disembarked from Strega the yacht I had been sailing on since Australia while on an AroundtheWorld sailing rally. We came in 2nd over the finish line in http://www.travelblog.org/Oceans-and-Seas/Caribbean/blog-385745.html The rain began to pour down but the band played on.Reaching up into the sky with palms skyward we embraced the cold drops thundering down streams running through our hair dripping down our noses around the curves of our grinning mouths and soaking what if anything remained of our costumes. Our feet stomped wildly in ankledeep puddles in the cobblestone streets and all around us people http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Brazil/Pernambuco/Recife/blog-383679.html Salvador de Bahia BrazilFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASECanadian Crowned Champion of Atlantic Ocean BeardGrowing Competition.Gerry of Dawson City Yukon has been proclaimed the overall winner of the Inaugural Atlantic Ocean BeardGrowing Competition an event held over the month of January during the crossing of the Southern Atlantic Ocean by a large gathering of sailboats participating in the Heineken Cap http://www.travelblog.org/Oceans-and-Seas/Atlantic/blog-383678.html The Start Line Cape Town South Africa 03 January 2009Table Mountain loomed from across the bay. Helicopters buzzed overhead. Spectator boats swarmed around the sidelines. There is definitely excitement in the air as we surge towards the start line and we're definitely not going to be crossing it alone. In 15 seconds the start gun will fire and hopefully our bow will be one of the first to http://www.travelblog.org/Oceans-and-Seas/Atlantic/blog-369240.html Welcome to St. Helena a British territory in the heart of the South Atlantic. She's a quirky little place alright an isolated volcanic lump created by the MidAtlantic Rift... and home to a few fun factsSt. Helena claims to be Britain's second oldest colony is home to the world's most expensive coffee made from the Greentipped Bourbon bean imported from Mocha of Yemen was the site of Na http://www.travelblog.org/Oceans-and-Seas/Atlantic/Saint-Helena/blog-369205.html This is madness. SamWe have come to Gansbaai South Africa with Dyer Island on the horizon home to one of the world's densest populations of Great White Sharks. The Maneating Shark. Carcharodon carcharias.And we're strapping on wetsuits. Sam is right. This is madness.The Great White Shark one of the greatest predators alive is considered an endangered animal. Humans have hunted them to v http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/South-Africa/Western-Cape/Gansbaai/blog-355106.html So we gathered a group of hardy explorers packed kit beer and muesli rented a truck and headed into the great wilderness of South Africa for a little doityourself safari adventureNot much text to accompany this blog entry this one is all about the eye candy definitely not a reference to our beer bellies Enjoy the photosA note about photo credits each photo has initials within brackets http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/South-Africa/KwaZulu-Natal/Hluhluwe-Umfolozi-Game-Reserve/blog-352062.html The Indico Project is complete3 months and about 15000 km after squeezing through the Torres Straits we rounded the Cape of Good Hope on the South African coast and slipped into the lee of Table Mountain. I have now sailed 72 around the world.The night before we rounded Cape Agulhas Africa's southernmost point and the true divider between the warm waters of the Indian Ocean and cool currents http://www.travelblog.org/Oceans-and-Seas/Indian/blog-351560.html A short greeting from Ile de la Reunion a small volcanic island in the Indian Ocean.Never heard of it Me neither until recently. She lies 1 day downwind from Mauritius and is a French possession. In the south there is an active volcano which occaisonally has a major eruption but sputters and tosses just a little lava every day.A long time ago there would have been total seismic chaos. Now i http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Reunion/Reunion/blog-345109.html We are in the middle of the Indian Ocean it's the middle of the night and it is very very dark and stormy.The tricky thing about sailing in a storm in the dead of night is learning how to not suffer from vertigo. When the stars are blacked out you can only steer by the compass and as you fly through the water at 12 knots no matter how hard you try to stay on course inevitably you will feel http://www.travelblog.org/Oceans-and-Seas/Indian/blog-344059.html I would like to thank everyone who emailed me their support after reading my last blog entry. I came across a quote that pretty much sums it all up and as a bonus it's far more eloquent than I could ever writeWhen we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us we often find that it is those who instead of giving advice solutions or cures have chosen rather to shar http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Indonesia/Bali/blog-335729.html Hello Everyone.. and Happy Thanksgiving by the waySorry for such a long period without email or blog updates. I don't feel all that talkative lately anyway as this middle section of the adventure has been emotionally challenging tiring and the effects of being in transit for so long are starting to wear me down.Anyway let me sum up August. I realized soon after making landfall in Cairns Qu http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Northern-Territory/Darwin/City-of-Darwin/blog-335371.html NOTE Please let me know if the two videos above worked well. If so I will capture more.Mayday Mayday We're struck a reef We're taking on water quickly... Somewhere near the Wallis ArchipelagoThe last 1000 miles of the Pacific the home stretch in the little adventure that has become known as the Pacifico Project is complete.I am happy to announce that I arrived to Cairns Australia. It ha http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Cairns/Cairns-City/blog-311605.html Photos by Cody ReedExcept spider and volcano photos taken by yours trulyMy Only Travel Tip Forget every travel tip you've ever been given including this one.I keep trying to sit down and describe this final stop in the Pacific Ocean before sailing to Australia but the moment I try to write about it I erase it all and try to start again.So I'll start again.Up until 5 months ago I had never e http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Vanuatu/Tanna/blog-305377.html They used to say that the world was flat and if you sailed to the end you'd plummet over the edge into an abyss..COOLI'm now in the Eastern Hemisphere having crossed the International Date Line and 180degree mark.Not much else to report but I can safely say Fijans have been the friendliest people in my South Pacific experience. There are some small culture shocks such as how people ask for http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Fiji/Mamanuca-Islands/Malolo-Island/blog-305367.html Note Suwarrow is the tiny dot in the centre marked by the middle yellow pinIn Bora Bora they have tamed Manta Rays that will eat out of the palm of your hand. Hundreds of technicoloured reef fish loiter under your hut's glass floor lured by the nutritious raw sewage of your toilet which flushes directly into the lagoon. You can buy black pearls at a boutique in town and there's high speed In http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Cook-Islands/Suwarrow/blog-289118.html And the lone seaman all the nightSails astonished among stars. EmersonThe Tuamotu Atolls of French PolynesiaThe Dangerous ArchipelagoThe green glow from the radar casts sinister shadows on our faces. The atoll comes into view on the screen a thin ring flashing on the console is our only warning of the danger that lies ahead. Ten miles away in the pitch black razor sharp reefs lurk just under http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/French-Polynesia/Manihi/blog-283119.html