EP 66 Let?s check out Santa Maria Azores 4 K

In this episode we rent a car to explore the most southeastern island in the Azores Santa Maria. A beautiful mystical island with lots of waterfalls and green hills. Then we prepare ourselves and Frida for the 900 NM long passage back to Lagos in mainland Portugal and we begin our 6 day long Bluewater sail. 00:00 Episode and channel introduction 00:35 Checkout Vila Porto and our boats from the air 01:19 Walk to checkout the village and local fishing competition 03:46 Kayak tour in the middle of the Atlantic 06:46 Under the waterline 07:03 Cattain Litza on duty cat life aboard 07:47 We drive around a mystical island 10:00 Cascada Aveiro 14:05 Lady Fatima Chappell 14:17 Next day more adventures 15:09 Pico Alto at Santa Maria 16:18 Next stop Cascata Ribeira do Malo?s hike to unique Basalt formation 17:54 Don?t fall challenge our fear of heights 20:13 Praia Formosa a wandering beach 21:04 Preparation for our longest passage so far 23:36 Departure 900 NM 6 days bluewater sailing ahead We are a middle aged couple that has left our hectic business lives to go sailing with our boat Frid? 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. Follow us on Noforeignland https://www.noforeignland.com/boat/fridaafwisby?sid=6095395836919808&tc=1674678682264 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. Frid? 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.