Where is your dream destination?

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As posted on another thread, it is revealed that I have a dream and a life target to get to Jaluit, Marshall Islands under my own steam. This was caused by an encounter with a large boat under restoration that I went on a couple of times which was registered to Jaluit, Marshall Islands. This seemed impossibly exotic for a windy, wet winters day in Essex Marina.

I may not get there, but it is a place I dream of, where's yours?
 
I agree.

Once I'm on the boat I'm not particularly bothered where, if anywhere, I go. I just love to get down to the boat!

Sad, I know, but I have no world girdling dreams. I can't really see me have the time, money or, most importantly, the courage to clear off anywhere too remote.

Funny how most people, me included, fantasise about the arrivals rather than the passage.
 
I dream of sailing to Stockholm, a place I once sailed a hire boat for a few days. It was/is amazing.
For sheer exoticism (as far as I'm concerned), I did sail the Whitsundays and they are aussie awesome. There are few other people about and the islands are from heaven. Clear waters, perfect sand, lush trees, blue sky and constant breeze.
But that's a good description of the Deben today!
 
I'd be very happy to be dropping the hook again here.....

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I guess I must be the lucky one because I made it to my dream destination 45 years ago when I sailed across the Indian Ocean with four others and arrived at Mahe, the largest island in the Seychelles Group.
I still dream of those silvery sands, the water so clear you saw the anchor hit the bottom in about 5 fathoms on a warm but not overhot sunshiny day, the friendliness of the ex-pats living on what was then still a British colony and palm trees like I had not seen before, even in Malaya as we knew it then. How times have changed, and I don't want to go back. Not even to the Hilton which has been built there spoiling the idyllic surroundings that I remember.
 
"Dream" has connotations of unattainability, of remoteness, of exoticism. For us, as soon as we can slip the shackles of employment, we want to head to destinations that probably fit none of the above. We almost certainly fit into the category of waterborne tourists, rather than steely-eyed world-girdlers. So whilst the passage is enjoyable, the destination is the objective.
 
Spitzbergen would be a really nice place to visit. A bit off the beaten track, not too crowded, clean unspoilt nature, a lot of wildlife, I'd like to go there.
 
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