ZippySails
| Vessel Name: | Zipporah |
05 April 2021 | Canyonlands National Park, Utah
What Survives!
The Twisted Trees are lone survivors out here. Do they ever rot, someday maybe. They are fascinating the way they get twisted up from the wind.
05 April 2021 | Canyonlands National Park, Utah
Off To Climb
Those sheer walls in the distance are their destination!
05 April 2021 | Canyonlands National Park, Utah
The Seclusion
We found some!!! Seclusion that is. So far my experience in the Canyonlands has been different than I expected. The vastness, the beauty, that's all been inline with what I thought but I was expecting to be off more in the wilderness, away from the people. Even though the park is pretty unknown in the [...]
04 April 2021 | Canyonlands National Park, Utah
The Confluence
The Historic Point of destination today led us to the Confluence where the Green river from and the Colorado river from Colorado meet in the center of the Canyonlands and join to be the Colorado river which runs through the Grand Canyon in Arizona. This ten mile round trip hike was said to be over flat [...]
03 April 2021 | Canyonlands National Park, Utah
The Hoodoos
The majority of the Needles area of the park is covered in rock formations called the Hoodoos, An overview here shows these mushroom looking structures. The needles are condensed in one dense section but the Hoodoos sprawl out to cover the rest of the Needles section of the park.
Texts Along The Way; THEY ARRIVED!!!
"Spectacular night shift...AMAZING stars...Wesome Venus then moonrise.....did I say spectacular?????"
"A sporty ride today...Very sporty. All hand steering....Double reefed main for night...Thankful for 3 drivers!!!!!Time for me to sleep."
"Out here sportiness continues today...All ok just bouncy n hard to rest. Chris Parker says will settle down soon :-)"
"Sporty has abated-how sporty was it?? Steady surfin in teens speed...Up to 16.6...No Spinnaker!!!!!!!!"
"Sunrise!!! Beautiful!!!! Did I say beautiful?"
"Just got spinnaker up and flying by my little self!"
"After two days rain the sun is back...We like that!!!! Everything on board damp n we...Time to dry!!!"
"999.9 miles to go!"
"We in full foulies at night to stay warm. Sweatpants and sweaters underneath. Water also cold. Sharks must like it-Had 2 scouting us out this morning!!!!!"
"DOLPHINS-large pod large Dolphins w white bellies...Atlantic Bottlenose? Playing in bow wave for good 20 minutes... NICE."
"Pod of 20 or so smaller WHALES just swam by boat...Porpoising like dolphin.....NICE!!"
"Big day today...Shaved and washed hair and armpits!!!!!!!All from swim platform weating harness.....Worked great"
"Less than 500 miles to go"
"Mentally prepared to drift for next 2 days....No wind:-( But spirits high.. Determined to sail all the way :-)))))"
"No wind for hours- drifting. Dark...pea soup fog- complete silence. Ocean surface says nothing- glass."
"340 miles to Flores, a rock in the middle of nowhere. But feels like something is all around-watching- as I sit in dark in mid of nowhere....Only sound mist of fog. Nothing so see...Only red flow of cabin below, Just a little CREEPY"
"BIG WHALE!!!!!!"
"199.9 miles to go....NOt that anybodies watching!!!!!!"
"Sailed thru a pod of whales this morning....Even got a close up Whale tail flip about 100' away....NICE!!!!!"
"Full on foulies with botts and watch caps at night here mid Atlantic. Reminds me Lake Superior in summer. Missing Caribbean!!!!"
"99.9 miles to go....But whose counting????"
"LAND HO!!! Dark-will wait till morning toi go into marina."
"IN the barn!!!!Exactly 2 weeks to the hour. Kind crying...Good. Dramatic landscape...Like Saba...With a little marina tucked in by sheer cliffs"
And there you have it, a walk along side them as they traveled across the Atlantic and are now resting on the island of Flores. Here is the first land siting after 2 weeks of sailing.