Faial

38° 31.94 N   028° 37.49 W

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18 July to 09 August 2008

It was pleasant arriving at a place we enjoyed last time we were here. Not much has changed in the last 6 years. We felt welcome.

We completed a list of jobs and repairs here. Including; varnish in front of dodger, buy fishing lures, bath Jack, service radar scanner, check for barnacles, service engine, laundry, shampoo carpets, fuel up, repair aft bilge pump suction line leak, tighten autopilot sprocket, engine room bilge clean, refill stern tube grease pump, repair spinnaker pole trip cable and also touched-up our mark on the wall that we painted in 2002.

The new one.

Right next to ours was that of our friend Jose Mari, Kaixo hombre.

In the Horta Museum are these incredible sculptures made out of Fig Tree Pith. They were made by Euclides Rosa (1910-1979)

Cutty Sark.

The local building "Sociedade Amor da Patria" there are 10,000 fragments it measures 56x56 cm and weighs only 200g!

Moinhos da Illha do Faial, 2600 fragments, 57x21 cm weight 45g!

Historia da Navegação

Gilana on the end of the inner dock.

Laura with boat-hook and Jack with bone.

Jack gets on with his dental hygiene gnawing on a knice knucke.

Gilana viewed from the town side.

Two views of Pico, a neighboring island.

Geology on the way to the.....

old whale processing factory.

This is where the unfortunate whales were dragged up to be butchered....

and have their meat cooked in these pressure cookers.....

where the dried and dessicated meat was milled fine and bagged.

The old Porto Pim

Playing with perspective, I decided to help, by changing a street lamp's lighbulb.