Cape Verde Travel Blogs

crossing the Atlantic
Nov 10, 2007 (34 photos)

we didn't really go to the Cape Verde Islands but we did sail past them in the night!    Day 22.   8 November 2007 (At Sea)   It wasn't only moths that covered the ship last night.  There are literally thousands, maybe ...

Cape Verde.
Nov 20, 2009

Cape Verde

CABO VERDE
Aug 30, 2007 (10 photos)

SAL

Mindelo, Cape Verde Islands
Dec 9, 2007 (20 photos)

I was pretty excited to be visiting the island of Sao Vincente in the Cape Verde Islands just off the coast of Africa . It was a very nice morning - warm and sunny - the island didn't look like it supported much life and vegetation and as we made our way ...

volcan fogo
Nov 10, 2008

Je suis venu sur cette ile pour unique ojectif de voir ce volcan. Les images parlent d elle meme.

Praia
Nov 9, 2008

Retour sur dakar, et depart vers la gambie, casmance, plus les guinees...

pit stop in Ilha do Sal
May 5, 2004

... some of our fellow passengers could have sat through that flight given the size limitations. As far as how full it was from Cape Town to Atlanta I counted about 5-10 empty seats out of about 100 in the back third of the plane. Some people just lucked ...

C est parti pour la plongee
Nov 3, 2008 (25 photos)

Je suis venu pour faire une plongee d exception : la grotte de taracona et son fameux rayon bleu. Je pense faire un sommet de volcan, la descente d un volcan est toujours sympa, la cendre se comporte comme de la cendre. Pour les photos il faut ...

Premiere colnie europeene
Nov 10, 2008

Entre 2 avion j ai pris un taxi pour cette ville qui est la plus ancienne colonie europeene. Le Cap Vert est un pays qui n avait pas d habitant lors de l arrivée des portugais.

J+5 / D+5 Mon 12 Nov
Nov 12, 2007

(En français)  C'est très calme en ce moment. Quelques dauphins phosphorescents dans la nuit. Au petit matin, on manque de se prendre un porte containeur en pleine face : C'est assez difficile de voir la direction des navires dans le noir, ...

J+6 / D+6 Tues 13 Nov
Nov 13, 2007

... ! From far, it seems to be heading for us. It was a Danish sailboat, Expresso. We think that they're also heading for Cape Verde, but they're travelling much faster than us, even though their boat is almost the same size as us. We let them pass behind us ...

J+7 / D+7 Wed 14 Nov : Phil lost his shorts!
Nov 14, 2007 (1 photos)

(En français) Fabuleux, on tient une moyenne de plus de 4.5 noeuds. Et alors qu'on est a près de 6 noeuds, survient notre première frayeur : Je suis en train de lire dans la cabine quand Claudia arrive et me dit qu'elle va se baigner. « Tiens, la ...

J+8 / D+8 Thurs 15 Nov
Nov 15, 2007 (1 photos)

(En français) Ah notre deuxième poisson. Pas très gros mais très bon et surtout très long a démêler la ligne qui s'était prise avec une autre. On a passe environ 1 heure, Claudia et moi, pour faire ce boulot. (In English) It's been 8 days since we've sailed ...

Cape Verde
Nov 21, 2007 (9 photos)

We woke up to a gusty morning and waters are very choppy. Looks like our plan to leave today will be postponed to tomorrow or when the weather's better. We're gonna get some food provisions later after this. I'll have to put the little spanish ...

Crossing the Ocean and the Equator
Dec 11, 2007 (11 photos)

December 11 Crossing the Ocean   Greetings from the Atlantic Ocean - not much more to say than that.  We are enjoying very warm weather - some sun and a few scattered clouds - calm seas - beautiful sunsets and some very good sleeping!  ...

J+3 / D+3 Calamari
Nov 10, 2007 (6 photos)

 (En français) Les nuits sont superbes; un ciel dégage, pas de lune, le noir complet. Des milliers d'étoiles, il y en a tellement que je n'arrive même pas à reconnaître les constellations.  Comme notre pilote automatique principal nous a lâche, j'en ...

J+4 / D+4 Sun 11 Nov
Nov 11, 2007

(En français) J'ai l'impression que les nuits sont bien plus passionnantes que le jour. Alors que je m'endormais paisiblement sur les genoux de Claudia pendant son quart, voila que je me réveille en sursaut, alerte par les cris hystériques de Claudia. «& ...

Arrival in Cape Verde
Nov 20, 2007

After 11 days of voyage, we finally arrived in the city of Mindelo, 2nd largest in Cape Verde. The last 2 days were terribly slow...we were travelling only at 1-2 miles per hour...if this doesn´t build up your patience, what does? It was a relief to ...

Les derniers jours avant l'arrivee au Cap Vert
Nov 20, 2007 (6 photos)

J+9 : Vendredi 16 Nov Si on maintient notre vitesse, on devrait arriver samedi dans l'apres midi. Aussitôt dit aussitôt ... pas fait. En fin de journee le vent tombe pour atteindre 0km/h pendant la nuit. J+10 : Samedi 17 Nov On a plus du tout ...

Departure fr Arguineguin / Depart d'Arguineguin
Nov 8, 2007 (8 photos)

... and the main sail) for the first time. We had exactly 777 miles (jackpot!) to travel to Sal, one of the islands in Cape Verde. Phil briefed us on the man overboard procedures and night watch duties : there are 4 shifts; 19h00 -22h00, 22h00 - 01h00, 01h00 ...

J+2 Dauphins / D+2 Dolphins
Nov 9, 2007 (9 photos)

(En français) En fait être enferme sur un bateau 24h/24 a regarde défiler l'eau mile après mile, c'est vite très chiant. Particulièrement lorsqu'il n'y a pas de vent. Alors on trouve des activités comme la pêche, regarder un bateau qui passe au large pendant des ...

no stress
Feb 9, 2006 (8 photos)

No stress. No stress. This is the local saying that is spray painted onto anything. And it's true, Cabo verde has its own timezone, pace of life and no stress attitude that is very similar to that of the Caribbean. A typical Cabo verdean day seems to ...

WIND WIND WIND.....
Feb 21, 2006 (12 photos)

... as a weight and we started getting lots of bites¡K he saw we were still not catching anything thing so gave us a souvenir from Cape Verde, which was a serious looking weight and hook set up. And within minutes I caught our first fish, see photo¡K. YEAH! It ...

Hunting and murdering
Mar 1, 2006 (9 photos)

It still windy! We haven't done much other than Kitesurf everyday. The water temperate is warm enough to wear boardshorts and rash vest, but the other nationalities think we are 'crazy british' for not wearing full wetsuits. I think perhaps they should ...

2nd port of call
Jan 20, 2009 (3 photos)

Saturday 17/01/09        St Vincent - Cape Verde Islands A truly volcanic island chain, the barren rugged mountains dominate the landscape and the surrounding islands to the extent that it resembles a lunar ...

The great adventure begins
Jan 5, 1983

... a couple hours to wait so it was walk around JFK. The South African Air  747 took off in the evening. A fuel stop in Cape Verde allowed us a streach and a visit with the three legged dog. Landed in Jo'bergurg and took the bus into town. This was ...

oooooooooooch
May 2, 2006

the seeeeeeeeeeea

way back
May 9, 2006

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Going south to some warmy place
Nov 3, 2006 (3 photos)

Landed we have on this desert island of Sal. At the arrival those persons having a valid visa can go through a passport control and out. But those that do not have a visa-stamp in their passports have to go to a small, hot room at the left corner of the ...

found a boat, off to the Caribbean, au revoir : )
Dec 7, 2009 (7 photos)

Tried to get a plane ticket to fly out on friday last week, but couldn't as the travel agency didn't accept cards (3rd millennium wonders :  ) so the prospect was to wait for the next flight out to Brasil in a week time, sunday the 13th of dec..... ...