Bahamas 

A great 2 week sail with Tracen J (Charlie and Karen Singstead)

Tracen J with us on our way from Conception to Long Island

Amy at Buenavista Cay in the Jumentos

All that is left of a small airplane wreck

Sunset at Flamingo Cay

Several fishermen traded us some lobster tails for books and GRIBS

A little exploring

A little relaxing

Motoring back to Georgetown

The Island Regatta

Bermuda

Completed our clearance in St. George's

Old church ruins at the head of the harbor

Looking at the America's Cup Exhibit with Kite (Jack and Zdenka Griswold)

Bermuda Fitted Dinghy Racing

Lunch with Newburyport friends Jon and Andrea Bursaw

Off to the Azores

Azores Passage and Visit

Blue skies and fair wind for 13 days

Jon took my usual quarter berth spot so I had the salon

As always on passage much reading

and eating

Our first Azores landfall, Flores

Bold and rocky shores

We chose to anchor behind the breakwater, outside the small and crowded marina

Anchor down. Time for some champagne.

The forecast didn't allow a trip to nearby Corvu

We did an overnight to Faial instead

We weren't the only boat arriving or leaving Horta, Faial

Jon readying our courtesy flag

The famous custom of painting your boat's name

Shango in Horta

Amy and her finished product

A few others

Fellow cruiser Phil Richmond doing his painting

Street tiling as used in mother Portugal

The lighthouse at Capelhinos Point covered by volcanic ash

The Capelhinos crater

The lighthouse stairway

A very impressive museum and restaurant built under the site

The entire point covered in ash

Faial view. Typical of most of the Azorean islands

Pick your own fish at many of the restaurants

We did OK

Next stop Pico. Our view as seen from the dock rafted 3 boats deep.

Pico vineyards. Grapes planted in stone plots for temperature control.

Hydrangas were in bloom for us

Sailing past Sao Jorge on the way to our last island, Terceira.

Shango at anchor in Agra, Terceira

Agra was in the middle of its summer festival. Bull running and parades

Every day a different area of town had a bull running. This one at the harbor.

We liked the parades more than watching the running of the bulls 

Another Azorean favorite, blood sausage

More wonderful seafood

Terceira was a beautiful place to wait for our window to England

The Coast Guard Eagle on July 4th

Shango also decked out for the day

We left for England on an overcast day

but had a very pleasant 9 day passage

England

Our England landfall, Falmouth. Jo and John on Donna Capel passed on all their local

Amy's family's childhood sailboat, a Gemini catamaran

knowledge for our cruise along the coast and up to London