[sblock=Azryah]Hedra did say she'd have a guide plus pack animals waiting for you at the port to take you to the plantation. If you ask her how far it is, she doesn't know exactly (she's never been there in person) but she thinks two or three hours.
See below about a map... Azryah could find it at the Great Library, or you might think of another place it could be found. I'll leave it up to you to decide. If you do visit the Library, you can make a History, Arcana or Nature check to try to dig up more information about the place. If you are looking someplace else, you could pick another appropriate skill (possibly Religion or Streetwise). (Pick one skill for the check, representing some hours of effort.)[/sblock]
[sblock=Map of the Isle]It's not too hard to find a basic map of the Isle of Opposition. (I've added the map as an attachment... gotta get set up with photobucket or something to put maps inline soon.
)
I assume that when you the map, you also find out the basic information found on the wiki
here. (I'll be filling in lots more detail on that wiki as the adventure progresses and you see more stuff first hand.)
Fulcrum is actually the island in the middle of the harbor. You'll see how you get from there to the main island.
The gates mentioned on the wiki as being on "opposite ends of the island" are actually on the two "horns" that enclose the entrance to the harbor. So they are not really far from each other as the crow flies. However, in practice they are opposite ends because you have to travel the long way around between them, for reasons that will become clearer when you get there.
Scale of the map is sketchy (that's the Transitive Isles for you!
), but to give you an idea, it would take at least a day to travel from one gate to the other on foot. At least. If you find yourself doing lots of travel on the Isle, you might want to try to find some mounts.[/sblock]
[sblock=Chaku]Love the scrubbing race!
A point of clarification, the ship you're travelling on is not the pretty sloop tied up by Hedra's office. Oh no! The ship you're travelling on is tied up about a ten minute hike away, in the Outer Harbor. (I wasn't sure from your post if you were thinking the sloop but it seemed like maybe so.)[/sblock]