Making a dream come true

We left our home port in Tjøme the day Vegar age 57 and retired. 24. May 2003 was a day of immense emotion, from sadness and uncertainty to the power and strength. During the summer and fall, we had put behind us Denmark, Germany, England, Spain, Portugal, Porto Santo, Madeira and the Canary Islands most. Cape Verde islands further south was like entering a new world. Poor and naked, yet so exciting, colorful and different. Here we also experienced a lot of tension on the long Atlantic crossing that lay ahead. Now we were really on the road trip! The Caribbean islands - Traditional Christmas celebration with about 50 other Norwegians on the beach in Bequia, beautiful white powdery sand beaches and wonderful snorkeling on colorful reef with a myriad of fascinating fish at Tobago Cays in the Grenadines, fascinating steel bands on Tobago, spectacular carnival in Trinidad, the Dutch island Bonaire - with the clearest water and most diverse marine life, the white and low sandy islands Las Aves - where we lived on fish from the reef and lived alone and undisturbed for a month, San Blas Islands off the coast of Panama where the Indians live and that they 've always done it fascinating edifice Panama Canal where our entrance into the Pacific really brought about the Pitre feeling of being on the circumnavigation. Now there was no turning back! Galapagos - the isolated islands with their rich and unique wildlife, Fatu Hiva - one of the lush islands of the Marquesas in French Polynesia where Thor Heyerdahl in his time lived and island Raroia on the bare Tuamotus archipelago where he wrecked the Kon Tiki and where we harvested black beads, Cook Islands with people where perfection in voice, rhythm and dance skills are an integral part of the innate, Niue - the island with great depopulation, with perhaps the friendliest people and the clearest water, Tonga - where we meet primitive cultures, free-range pigs in all villages and men in skirts for the first time.
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Close encounters with humpback whales in Tonga, two majestic giants of 40 and 3 tons. Perhaps our greatest experience ... Against the bright sandy bottom, we see they both clearly from the water surface. Calf sliding slowly along the body of the mother, coming up beside her and begins to rise - slowly, slowly. In the surface, a few yards from us, squirt it out a column of water vapor before it draws in air. The idylic banks of the water, it turns around and leaves a stream of water bubbles - and then it comes up to us and like us curious looking into his eyes for a while before slowly going down to her mother again. The mother lifts a little backpacking and moves slowly and lovingly. She stroked his head gently on the calf lets his weight resting against her mother's big and safe body.
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New Zealand - where we learn about human group Maoris and see the most beautiful and varied nature of things, Fiji - the land where the English in his time imported Indians who labor for the sugar plantations and where they still, after several generations of hard work and now represents 50% of the population, are seen as migrant workers, primitive cultures, men in skirts, rituals around the bowl with kavadrikk and a country where many whites have settled, Vanuatu - primitive cultures where pig teeth can still be used as payment and where people are voted the happiest people, Solomon - primitive cultures, great carving, poor and corrupt with internal conflicts, Papua New Guinea - a great country with great scenery and many exciting cultures where we just got us a little bit, Australia - the spacious country where we saw so small, but was greatly affected by the misery among Aborigines, Indonesia - the great land where our greatest experiences was visiting the spice islands, see the huge Komodo dragon and the very largest - to get a close encounter with the endangered Orangutans in Borneo ...
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I sit down carefully beside him, stretching out my one hand. It takes time, he shy away from his eyes, but he accepts my hand. So we sit and chat. He grabs me around the ankle with a definite and firm grip and he grabs me while wrist. Now he can throw me into the river to the crocodiles or he can bite my throat, I thought, but I thought he's not wanted it and luckily I kept quiet. Then he came closer and sat on my lap. I held his hand and chatted and as we sat a long while. Ben and I!
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Singapore - a spotless and different countries in this part of the world, Malaysia - with the congested Malacca Strait and a rapidly growing, Phuket, Thailand - a place where tourism is a focus and where we can get good and relatively inexpensive means to upgrade of Pomona, who has safely brought us this far forward, 6 ½ years later. Unlike when we started on this journey we found eventually an affordable boat insurance. Yeah so affordable is that we, and many others, have investigated the conditions in detail. At www.micboatservice.com we met a service friendly attitude with commitment on our behalf and we have always received quick feedback to our inquiries. We also experience the same insurance was less expensive than at Micboat through our direct contact with the insurance company. Our experience, which fortunately is no claim so far suggests that we can recommend Micboat. Roads Bjøranger and Lisbeth Haugan www.seilturen.no