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Originally Posted by cantxsailor  Hey Gord thanks for the world financial education on what an evil "entitled" bastard I really am. Perhaps I should go cut my wrists.
Just to recap I own an old(31yrs)small boat. I don't/won't have any outside income and the $766 was the amount to get into the Galapagos not my monthly spending. It just seemed to me to be a bit steep for entry fee and the question was about wether or not I would be facing confiscation of my boat/home for HAVING to put for resupply for not having enough money as a slightly indigent traveller.
We(the US) don't charge travellers to enter our country from the sea and if I'm not mistaken neither does Canada, although it's been many years since I was a Canadian and this may have changed.
I do however get pissed at the rich(apparently a relative concept) who screw up so many places with their excess and leave these places thinking that because I am a white/male/European/American I'm rich.
Since I don't live in some third world country where cost of living is low(relative to the US) based on the available income I AM poor in my own country.
I will excuse your snotty attitude because you're stuck ashore in that northern garden spot and having to live through your keyboard.
But if that is NOT your problem please feel to get stuffed...............m |
I suggest you stay in North America you will be much happier and so will we. To enter French Polynesia you will have to put up a bond with the local bank equivalent to a return air fare to your home country. I suggest that they already have a book of excuses why you could not afford to pay. French Polynesia is a great place to cruise, expensive yes but the French have done a good job looking after the place and the locals (indigenous) live very well as a result. For the amount of area, islands, to visit within FP the bond is a cheap fee. Yes you do get it back but in French $ no matter how you paid it so you do lose some along the way. Euro citizens do not have to pay and it does not apply to New Caledonia. I crossed the Pacific last year and will be going again but not for a while so I hope it does not change much in the mean time influenced by rude visiting cruisers always bleating how poor they are and rubbing the locals up the wrong way.