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Atlantic Navigator – Year 2015 – A year of antithesis

This year was a year of many contrast in my life. My photographs this year in April – June are mostly from the Atlantic Ocean and of Macaronesian Islands. Winter period in january – february I made some trips in Turku archipelago resulting some beautiful seascapes. The rest of the year has passed with variousContinue reading “Atlantic Navigator – Year 2015 – A year of antithesis”

Atlantic Navigator journeys to the Macaronesian Islands in the Atlantic Ocean

 Macaronesian islands in the Atlantic ocean are volcanic and high in altitude. The peaks reach easily to 2000 meters and over. The island’s West of Gibraltar as Greeks called them. All islands have almost the same vegetation, only seen here in the Macaronesia. The Portuguese islands (Azores and Madeira) are cooler and more humid, butContinue reading “Atlantic Navigator journeys to the Macaronesian Islands in the Atlantic Ocean”

Atlantic Navigator – The third part of the journey

Now we start the third leg of our sailing trip. From Nazaré in Portugal to Tenerife in Canaries. Nazaré is located near Berlenga island and is one day´s sailing distance from Lissabon. We set the sails early this spring after the month of March. It is the month when the wind is blowing from all theContinue reading “Atlantic Navigator – The third part of the journey”