Sally and Simon left Scotland in 2015 on board Shimshal to begin a slow circumnavigation taking in various high latitude destinations. After 3 seasons in Greenland we sailed south to Lewisporte in northern Newfoundland. In 2019 we cruised the Canadian Maritimes. In 2022 & 23 we cruised via New England, Chesapeake, Florida, Cuba, Cayman, Providencia to Bocas del Toro. In late 2023 we transited the Panama Canal in readiness of a Pacific crossing in 2024.
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Tuesday 9 August 2016
They greeted us when we arrived and waved us goodbye two weeks later.
It seems like an age ago but it is only two weeks. Back then we had an ecstatic welcome to Greenland by a large pod of whales. Today, in the cold polar current, 30 miles off the coast, they came back to wave us goodbye. A flurry of tail slapping against the receding backdrop of mountains.