World cruise
a trip by Terry Teperson
From: July 11th 2012
Until: ongoing
Left Cape Town July 11th, 2012 on first leg our world cruise and reached St Helena Island July 24th.
Spent 10 days at St Helena Island and arrived in Brazil August 19th.
Cruised the Bay of Ilha Grande and the coast of Brazil. Reached Belem which is 80 miles up the Para River in the Amazon delta on November 29th.
Cruised 420 miles through the Amazon delta reaching Makapa December 22nd.
Left Makapa, which is 100 miles up the Amazon River on December 28th. and reached Degrad Des Cannes, French Guyana on January 1st 2013
Left Degrad Des Cannes April 10th and sailed to Iles Du Salut (Devil's Island)
Spent 16 days at Devil's Island and reached Saint Laurent Du Maroni, on April 27th, which is 20 miles up the Maroni River on the border of French Guyana and Suriname. I wrote an article on French Guyana in a cruiser's forum, check out this site - http://www.noonsite.com/Countries/FrenchGuiana/unknown-haven-in-french-guyana
Left Saint Laurent Du Maroni May 16th and arrirved in Prickly Bay, Grenada May 21st.
Left Grenada May 6th and arrived in Trinidad, 81 miles away on the same day. It is hurricane season now (1 June until 30 November). Trinidad and Tobago is outside the hurricane belt (by 30 miles) and we will be staying here for 3 months doing boat maintenance and bottom painting (antifouling).
Trip Length: 12 years
Blog Entries: 3
Photos: 83
Words: 138
Blog Entries
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