Ep 65 Exploring the green island and a wet sail 4 K

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00:00 content and channel introduction
00:42 Horseback riding on São Miguel
04:51 Not all sunshine on a boat heavy rainfall
05:57 Cooking seafood aboard
07:20 Walk in Ponta Delade and visit to a free botanic garden
09:58 Visit to European tea plantage and factory we see a sea of tea
16:13 Sete ciudad, green and blue lake
17:11 Western part of the island
19:01 Portuguese man of war close up
19:17 A tiny bit of boatwork
20:09 Lavatube Gruta do Carvão
22:19 Sailor graffitti on the harbour pier
23:00 Sailing to Santa Maria

In this episode we continue to explore São Miguel. Lotta and Gitte go horseback riding, we are weathering out some heavy rain in the boat, we visit one of Europes few tea plantations and tea factories and we find ourselves in a sea of tea, after that we drive around visiting some of the classic sightseeing places such as the green and blue lake, we even go underground into a lava tube before it’s time to leave our little sailor mark on the pier and Anders lubricate some blocks before it’s time to set sail to Santa Maria.

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We are a middle aged couple that has left our hectic business lives to go sailing with our boat Fridá af Wisby and our cat Litza. Our goal is not to go to a specific place but to reach a state of mind where we can really enjoy life.

Anders has been at the sea most of his life and sailed for the Swedish national dingy sailing team as a young man. Gitte has also grown up with boats and spent every summer sailing with her father as a teenager but made a pause of about 15 years without sailing as an adult, had just begun to pick-up the interest before she meet Anders in 2017. Onboard we also have our cat Litza a 4 year old Devon Rex we call her the cattain because cats always decide over their humans.

Fridá af Wisby is a Wauquiez 47 pilot saloon that we Gitte and Anders bought in UK in 2019 and that we have sailed to Gotland and in season 1 2020 we sail in the Baltic Sea. During season 2 We sailded south to Dieppe Normandy France. After a winter in France in Season 3 we started to sail the Atlantic coast of Europe to Xufre in Spain where we lifted the boat over the summer while we where back in Gotland to work at our hostel we got there. Season 4 got a short sailing season where we only sailed to Lagos on the Algarve coast of Portugal where we hauled out once again this time to go throug a long list of boatwork and to build a solar arch to make the boat more self-suficient with electricity. After 6 months in Lagos we kicked-off season 5 with real bluewater sailing first to the northerly Atlantic island Porto Santo and Madeira and then further out to the Azores that lays in the middle of the Atlantic ocean before turning back towards the mainland and south coast of Portugal again.