Photoblog » Off shore http://www.ravenblood.org/blog And of this pales to utter insignificance in light of the fact that my ship is once again gone, savvy? Tue, 27 Jul 2010 23:31:35 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Douro Tour http://www.ravenblood.org/blog/2009/10/17/douro-tour/ http://www.ravenblood.org/blog/2009/10/17/douro-tour/#comments Sat, 17 Oct 2009 22:25:01 +0000 admin http://www.ravenblood.org/blog/?p=555 Nice warm weather and a nice east wind were bringing us to Porto on the river Douro. Besides all the pictures from the people on board I was making some snapshots from the environment.
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Our trip:

08.08.2009 Toulon – Ile de Porquerolles
09.08.2009 Ile de Porquerolles – Golfe de Calvi
10.08.2009 Golfe de Calvi – Golfe Girolata
11.08.2009 Golfe Girolata – Porto
12.08.2009 Porto – Anse de la Foata
13.08.2009 Anse de la Foata – Calvi

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The boat: Moscatel
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First day: Póvoa to Figueira da Foz:

Porto:
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Well we all like apple, don’t we?
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Arrival at night:
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Second day Figueira da Foz to Cascais:
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Shortly before Peniche:
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Cape next to Peniche:
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Third day in Cascais:
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Some crazy guys waiting for less wind:
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Little break for refuelling? Well the boat was standing there at least for three hours…
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A real nice classic sailing yacht:
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Any idea about the use of this boat? Sorry, me neither. //Thanks to Script-Kiddie for the information: it is a hydrofoil glass bottom boat
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Tickled Pink, the bigest boat in Cascais (base price of the Sunseeker 37M is 10 million €)
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Well, small boats can be sometimes also interesting ;)
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Third and fourth day: Cascais to Portimão

Leaving Cascais:
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Sundown at approx. 10 p.m.:
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Some dolphins appeared in the night, it was not possible to make pictures, but it was incredible: Long before you would see them during the day you saw a white line in the water. I was counting twelve dolphins in total.

Navigation instruments:
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Sunset at approx. 6 a.m.:
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Shift change:
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Cabo de São Vicente, near to Sagres:
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Finally: the coast of the Algarve
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In the river Arade of Portimão:
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Wasn’t me:
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In Portimão:
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Just relaxing a bit with a nice cocktail:
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Small panorama of the bar:
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Not much to do, so time for replacing the old flag of the club:
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