| Breaking
News |
| 13th
August - Faroe Islands |
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| Location: |
Faroe
Islands |
Time: |
3.28pm
(GMT) |
| Weather: |
Rain |
Team
Member: |
Bear
Grylls (Team Leader) |
| Report: |
At
last the crossing we have waited over 2500 miles for! Continued
calm seas! We left the dramatic cliffs of the Westmann islands
with a gentle following swell. No one dared to hope that this
might last, only too aware that our two most frightening legs
started out so calm as well. But the forecast held true this time
with these waters proving much more reliable an area to forecast.
It was a pure joy to watch the sunset over the horizon behind
us to reveal the clearest of nights with bright bright stars.
We had always expected the nights this far north to be much lighter
like this, and now we realised that the nights had been so dark
purely because of the looming dark clouds and angry skies that
have been our companions for so many of these miles. Now these
were gone the sky was alive around us with shooting stars and
phosphorus. |
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To
be on this small boat with these guys with whom I have shared
so much emotion and cold moments over the last weeks was now a
dream for me. The boat surfed along gaining speed with every hour.
We passed through several squalls of rain that pebbled the waves
before us and Iceland soon fell away. Dawn brought us within 150
miles of the remote Faroe island and slowly their stark cliffs
appeared from the mist- an imposing heaving jumble of rock faces
covered in grass and round the far side of them, the small port.
This was a hillside town littered with houses perched on the cliff
tops above us. We have refueled and got a clear forecast for our
final run home- some 200 nm south to the north coast of scotland.
Northerly and stronger winds should see us surfing the waves home
and they is a huge sense of excitement among the guys that we
are coming through this now and home is so close. |
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We
will have a small gathering of family in scotland before the final
run along the coast for 50miles to John O Groats where we officially
finish and will end. |
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Everyone
just cannot wait to see the sight of the scottish headlands and
sometimes it is not until we leave that we realise out of all
the vast and at times daunting world we live in - home truly has
a flavour that is just pure gold.
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Our
Meteorologist has just contacted us with a latest weather update
to say that force 6/7 winds are blowing up from the Shetland Isles.
These should pass during the night and the team are revising their
departure time to leave the Faroe's until 4am. |
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