Category: California
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LEAVING SAN FRANCISCO AND SETTING OUT ON CYCLE TO DEATH VALLEY
While in San Francisco, we were busy trying to organise a marina to leave the boat during our bicycle trip, as well as trying to find bicycles for the the kids. Tim and Megan give us a lot of advice and helped us a lot, as well as very kindly…
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Sailing from Vancouver to Thetis Island and further to San Francisco
More pics here! We enjoyed a few days in the beautiful city of Vancouver. We had a warm welcome from Jerome Charbonnet from the Swiss Consulate and journalist Christof Marti from the Vancouver Sun. Unfortunately the teachers were on strike and so we could not go and visit schools. It…
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The last weeks in Cordova
Report by Anja More pics here! Clean up on Hinchinbrook Island I joined the family in Talkeetna at the end of May as a new crew member and teacher for the kids. Together we travelled back to Cordova. We organised some more project and got the boat ready for the…
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Sun power on Tahiti
There is plenty of sun on Tahiti! A good example is Mr. Michel Derhan. With his solar panels he produces 5 kW to run everything in his house. The remaining power he sells for a good price to the public net. Like this he does not need an expensive battery…
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Pumalin Park: clean up and school visits
PUMALIN Park: We are in on of the most beautiful parks on our planet. Our neighbours are dolphins, sea lions and black necked swans. Our anchorage is in Puillan fjord. From here it is about 2 hours to a native tree plantation to reproduce the 3000 years old Alerce trees…