Geoff Brock & Bruce Gamble
         
     
   
 
 
 
Sal:
 
São Vicente:
 
Santo Antão:
 
São Nicolau:
 
Brava:
 
Fogo:
 
Maio:
 
Santiago:
 

Island Hopping in Cape Verde
on the Hebridean Sky
11th - 22nd November 2022
 
We only booked this holiday three months before departure. We were supposed to be sailing on the same ship in Central America, so when that trip got cancelled and this one was offered as an alternative, we thought about it for a while before deciding to go. Our expectations were not that high, because we knew so little about the islands. Visiting them changed all that. We loved the islands and the people who live on them.


We visited eight out of the ten islands. The exceptions were Santa Luzia (uninhabited and geographically located between São Vicente and São Nicolau) and Boa Vista (located between Maio and Sal). As one of our guides said to us, "If we had let you visit all of our islands, you may not have wanted to come back again!".
The Cape Verde archipelago lies approximately 350 miles off the western coast of the African continent near Senegal, Gambia, and Mauritania. The country is a horseshoe-shaped cluster of ten islands (nine inhabited) and eight islets that constitute an area of 1557 square miles.
The Barlavento (windward) Islands are Santo Antão, São Vicente, Santa Luzia (uninhabited), São Nicolau, Sal and Boa Vista. The Sotavento (leeward) Islands are Brava, Fogo, Maio and Santiago. Three of the islands, Sal, Boa Vista, and Maio, are fairly flat, sandy and dry; the others are generally rockier with more vegetation.
 
 
 
©Geoff Brock and Bruce Gamble