Atlantic Crossing

Seven Sisters Falls

Atlantic Crossing

South Africa is a mercurial port with its beautiful, but potentially deadly coastline. It bursts with ample sealife: penguins, dolphins, sea lions and whales.

While lingering in port, we visited Kruger National Park for several days where we drove into the bush, siting all the Big Five: leopard, rhino, lion, elephant, and buffalo.

The Olson brothers (Sky and Grant) met us on the African east coast to join us for the Atlantic crossing. The frigid cold waters didn't deter all the kids from surfing the big waves.

When crossing the big pond, we stopped at Namibia (African west coast), St. Helena, and Brazil, before our final landfall in Grenada where our crew departed.

St Helena

In Namibia during the 1800's, diamonds were once traded for flour and suger. German and African inhabitants crawled on their bellies across cooled sands under a bright moon to collect the diamonds, exposed after high winds.

Venezuela

The kindness and hospitality of the Andean people spurred us on to tour Merida, nestled between two mountain ranges of the Venezuelan Andes. Delightfully, our extended familes joined us for 2 weeks of explorations to the quaint villages in the highlands.

Rounding the Cape of Good Hope

On African Safari

Capetown

Namibia

South Africa

Desert dune jumping

St. Helena is known for its imprisonment of Napoleon. The island is as far away from any point of land, as anywhere else in the world. You can only get there by mailboat or sailboat.

Grenada

The SCUD crew

After our crossing of the big pond, the crew lingered in Grenada to hike the Seven Sisters waterfall and see St. Georges, the capital.

We caught the annual Cariacou Regatta just in time, participating in the race and regatta events.