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Places Fully Booked Galapagos, Cochins/Ski Lanka, Maldives, Crete
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Our dream for the last 7 Years has been to sail our own boat around the world. This dream is now rapidly becoming a reality. The first stage was to purchase a suitable boat, Scot-Free a 40ft Catalina was purchased in February 08 in Fort Lauderdale and our Maiden voyage was sailing her down the Florida coast and across down through the Bahamas to Providenciales. We are planning to join the Blue Water Rally leaving in August to be in Antigua when the rally arrives |
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We have been planning to join the rally for 7 Years. So we apologise to all our friends and family who have heard nothing but sailing for the few years And thanks for all your support |
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Debra Woolley Email debra@scot-free.net |
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Eileen Woolley Email Eileen@scot-free.net |
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Other places having people joining us Fiji For those who have not chosen yet the world is your Oyster
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The Crew |
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2nd March 2010 Current Position Sailing from Pearl Islands Pacific Ocean to Galapagos Islands about 900 miles hopefully will take around 9 days
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The Galápagos Islands (official name: Archipiélago de Colón; other Spanish names: Islas de Colón or Islas Galápagos) are an archipelago of volcanic islands distributed around the equator in the Pacific Ocean, 972 km west of continental Ecuador. It is a UNESCO World Heritage site: wildlife is its most notable feature. The Galápagos islands and its surrounding waters are part of a province, a national park, and a biological marine reserve. The principal language on the islands is Spanish. The islands have a population of around 23,000. The islands are geologically young and famed for their vast number of endemic species, which were studied by Charles Darwin during the voyage of the Beagle. His observations and collections contributed to the inception of Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection. The first crude navigation chart of the islands was done by the buccaneer Ambrose Cowley in 1684. He named the individual islands after some of his fellow pirates or after the English noblemen who helped the privateer's cause. More recently, the Ecuadorian government gave most of the islands Spanish names. While the Spanish names are official, many users (especially ecological researchers) continue to use the older English names, particularly as those were the names used when Charles Darwin visited.
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