The Island of Faial in the Azores July 17 - 27, 2012

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July 27th 2012

Published: July 27th 2012

The Azores Archipelago is made up of 9 islands. When we first planned our trip to the Azores we had hoped to visit all of them, but as we took 3 weeks to explore Flores and we have already been in Faial for over a week we are sure we won’t be able to get to them all. They are divided into 3 general areas – the western area consists of Flores and Corvo, the central group is made up of Faial, Pi... 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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What is in the background?

If it was clear you would see the bottom of the caldeira behind us – we weren’t quick enough with taking the photo!

Obviously Volcanic Origins

In looking over the landscape you can tell that the island is volcanic in origin as seen by the cone shapes here.

View of the Valley

A view down in the valley from where the caldeira is located.

A Few Samples

Just a small sampling of the paintings on the wall. SanSouci we know from Ithaca while Titom did a great job of including their circumnavigational route in the iris of the eye on theirs.

New and "Old" Friends

We had a nice evening with Pascal and Christa from Titom who we met in Flores and Chuck from Reflections who we met here in Horta.

Flowers Everywhere

We find the people in the Azores love their flowers – they even have them places for them designed into the walls.

Notice the Bus

If you look closely you will see they have a full size bus balanced on top of another container on this ship. It shows how large these ships really are in comparison

Fort St. Cruz

Part of the wall of Fort Cruz edges the marina in Horta.

Evening Sky

It was a rainy day, but in the evening the sky was still quite beautiful.

Parts Remain

There are quite a few remains of the fort standing at the edge of Porto Pim.

The Observatory

The meteorological observatory on the hill in Horta was built in 1901 as they understood the importance of communicating their observations to Europe for forecasting purposes.

Views of Tsamaya

Thanks to Christa on Titom we have lots of photos of us sailing. Don't worry - we weren't sinking - Christa had fun with some of the photos!

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