Long Island to Rum Cay
We met our friend, Maik, on Long Island and he has joined us for a couple of weeks., We are having fun, since we haven’t seen each other for a couple of years and Maik was a friend of Gesa’s (through the volleyball club) before he became a friend of mine too, so the three […]
Arrived in Long Island
So despite leaving on a Friday, and the 13th at that, we have arrived safely here in Clarence Town, Long Island. Time for breakfast then ashore to explore and meet up with Maik, who has been hanging around here for a week whilst we slowly travel northwards. He’s been at a luxury resort on the […]
The romance of the high seas
So my Valentines Day gift to Gesa is the delights of another overnight sailing trip, never say I’m not the romantic – this is an exclusive starlit sailing cruise to a beautiful Bahamian island town, people pay good money for this experience. The good news is that it is a beautiful starlit night, gentle breeze […]
Mayaguana
So here we are on our first Bahamanian Island, one of the ‘out-islands’, about as far away from Nassau as you can get. Mayaguana is a twenty four mile long island, rising to little less than sixty meters and covered in low scrub and the occasional palm tree. Some five hundred people eek out a […]
Arrived in the Bahamas
After a rough and windy trip, we made it to Mayaguana in near record time. We came into Abrahams Bay though the gap in the reef and carefully dodged shoal patches and coral heads to anchor and rest whilst waiting for the sun to get behind us for the trip to the other end of […]
A wild ride round the Caicos Bank
We are at sea again, on passage for 150 miles, about a twenty four hour trip. This is becoming a bit of a habit, hopefully Gesa will forgive me one day. We wish to be in Clarance Town, Long Island by Saturday. That either means a near constant series of long day trips, with tricky […]
Fiesty little crab
We were exploring a beach here in South Caicos and found lots of interesting things, as you can see from the photo. There was bright purple coral, large urchin and sand-dollar shells, lobster carapaces and other remains, and much much more. The kids were happily rockpooling when a crab scuttled out of the undergrowth and […]
Voyages around Puerto Rico
Let me take you back to some of our sailing trips around Puerto Rico a couple of weeks ago. As you may recall we were entertaining our friend Helen, over from Amsterdam, and had a fun couple of days on the island of Culebra. After that we made for the next island to the West, […]
Photos from Puerto Rico (2)
– Family photo in the mountains – Hiking in the rainforest – The tower at the top – And the view from it
Photos from Puerto Rico
– Dolphins swam with us on the way from Vieques – The view from our anchorage, those mountains dominate – Rainforest views – The canopy, whilst walking in the forest