Flores - An Island of Flowers and Beauty

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July 6th 2012

Published: July 6th 2012

The island of Flores is the fourth smallest island of the Azores archipelago and has only about four thousand inhabitants, making it the second least populated. We feel very fortunate to have made our first landfall in Europe on this island. Traditionally the island of Faial, city of Horta is where most sailors make their European landfall. However last year a new marina was opened on Flores which... Read Full Entry

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Bob & Janice Waller

s v Tsamaya

Like so many others we love to travel and we love to sail so cruising makes a lot of sense. Janice has retired from Cornell as a business manager and Bob has retired from South Seneca school district as the high school principal. It's time to sell the house, get rid of whatever doesn't fit on our 40 foot Caliber LRC named Tsamaya (this means Travel Well in Setswana) and set off to see the world. Our reasons for publishing this blog is twofold, first to keep in touch with our friends and family and secondly to share our experiences. If you would like to receive notification when we have added ... full info

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Jose Entertains All

Jose is an accomplished guitar maker as well – this one he built while living in the US. It is a 12 string guitar made of sitka spruce and curly maple.

2 Caliber Boats on the Wall

Tradition has it that you must put your "mark" on the wall for good luck for the remainder of your journey. We weren't taking any chances. We put Tsamaya next to another Caliber 40 that we met in the Bahamas.

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