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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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Current Position Sailing towards Fiji on route to Australia
See page 6
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Tahiti is the largest island in the Windward group of French Polynesia, located in the archipelago of Society Islands in the southern Pacific Ocean. The island has a population of 178,133 according to an August 2007 census.[1] This makes it the most populous island of French Polynesia, accounting for 68.6% of the total population. The capital, Papeete, is located on the northwest coast. Tahiti has also been known as O'tahiti.
Tahiti measures 45 km across at its widest point and covers an area of 1,045 km2 , with a maximum elevation of 2,241 m (Mount Orohena). Mont Roonui in the southeast rises to 1,332 m. The island consists of two roughly round portions centered on volcanic mountains, connected by a short isthmus named after the small town of Taravao located there. The northwestern portion is known as Tahiti Nui ("big Tahiti"), while the much smaller southeastern portion is known as Tahiti Iti ("small Tahiti") or Taiarapu. Tahiti Nui is heavily populated along the coast (especially aroundPapeete) and benefits from roads and highways. The interior of Tahiti Nui is almost entirely uninhabited. Tahiti Iti has remained isolated, as its southeastern half (Te Pari) is accessible only to those traveling by boat or on foot. The rest of the island is encircled by a main road which cuts between the mountains and the sea. An interior road climbs past dairy farms and citrus groves with panoramic views. Tahiti's landscape features lush rain forests and many swift streams, including the Papenoo in the north. November to April is the wet season, the wettest month of which is January with 13.2 inches (335 mm) of rain in Papeete. August is the driest with 1.9 inches (48 mm). The average temperature ranges between 70 °F (21 °C) and 88 °F (31 °C) with little seasonal variation. The lowest and highest temperatures recorded in Bibys are 61 °F (16 °C) and 93 °F (34 °C), respectively.[2]
One of the most widely recognised images of the islands is the world famous Tahitian dance. The ʻōteʻa, sometimes written as otea, is a traditional dance from Tahiti, where the dancers, standing in several rows, execute different figures. This dance, easily recognized by its "fast hip-shaking," and "grass skirts" is often confused with the Hawaiianhula, a generally slower more graceful dance which focuses more on the hands and story telling than the hips. The ʻōteʻa is one of the few dances which already existed in pre-European times as a male dance. On the other hand, the hura (Tahitian vernacular for hula), a dance for women, has disappeared, and the couple's dance ʻupaʻupa is likewise gone but may have reemerged as the tāmūrē. Nowadays, however, the ʻōteʻa can be danced by men (ʻōteʻa tāne), by women (ʻōteʻa vahine), or by both genders (ʻōteʻa ʻāmui = united ʻō.). The dance is with music only, drums, but no singing. The drum can be one of the different types of the tōʻere, a laying log of wood with a longitudinal slit, which is struck by one or two sticks. Or it can be the pahu, the ancient Tahitian standing drum covered with a shark skin and struck by the hands or with sticks. The rhythm from the tōʻere is fast, from the pahu it is slower. A smaller drum, the faʻatētē, can also be used.
The dancers make gestures, re enacting daily occupations of life. For the men the themes can be chosen from warfare or sailing, and then they may use spears or paddles. For women the themes are closer to home or from nature, combing their hair, or the flight of a butterfly for example. But also more elaborate themes can be chosen, for example one where the dancers end up in a map of Tahiti, highlighting important places. In a proper ʻōteʻa the story of the theme should pervade the whole dance.
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