My fellow lighthouse keeper was quick to inspect the Dory Rip before breakfast. The roaring flood tide forms an eddy off Cape d’Or which ploughs into the countercurrent creating some ferocious standing waves.




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 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 began a 2 year crossing of the Pacific arriving in New Zealand in October 2025.