Family photos
Realised that we don’t put many pictures of us on here, so here’s a few: – The kids sitting up on the boom – Max on deck during the night-time trip through the Riviere Salee – Nick trying to work out where to anchor – All of us outside Fort Napolean in Les Saintes
Point a Pitre – Low points
So whilst we’ve enjoyed some of our stay here, the overall feeling has been pretty negative, I’d better explain why. The weather. OK, not really related to the town, but we’ve had a week of windy wet weather and not much sun. I think that’s unusual for here, and since we are on the low, […]
Point a Pitre – the good stuff
So, since our somewhat ignomous entry to the Riviere Salee and the mangrove swamps, we’ve spent five days in Point a Pitre, the biggest town on the island and nearer to a city than a town. It has had it’s high points, but some lows too. High points have been: The passage through the Riviere […]
A Day in the Life, 3/3
530pm We are back on the boat, and ready for an evening swim. We all jump off the boat, and Nick and I take turns tackling the weed that has collected around the waterline in her 9 months at sea. 615pm Time for our solar shower. I rig it up on deck to fall through […]
A day in the life, 2/2
1015am Science lesson starts with Nick, while I finally finish getting washed and dressed, clean the stern bathroom, and sit down to read the email Nick downloaded from Corinne. Most of the time we can only do this when we are at a WiFi site, but sometimes Nick can do it via the radio. So, […]
A Day in the Life (1/3)
Following on from the popular series of posts about life mid-Ocean, Gesa has written about one day in our life together here on board. There’s not a ‘typical’ day, really, but this one is as close as it gets, as we try to maintain some semblance of daily life with shopping, school and other activities. […]
Adventure in Guadeloupe
There are times when it seems that I spend a couple of weeks building up brownie points with Gesa then go sailing and blow them all on one trip. It’s usually big seas (like Nonsuch Bay) or excessively long trips (Montserrat-Guadeloupe) or some other miscalculation or misrepresentation on my part. Today had it all, although […]
School’s In !!
One of the most frequent questions we were asked before we left was about schooling the kids. Well, now we’ve started – school began on Mon 6 Jan and we’ve now done a week and a bit. So how does it work? Since we have a teacher pupil ratio of exactly 1.0 (see, we can […]
Seacritters
One of the great things about being on the beach is the variety of new sea-life for the kids to explore. They are surprisingly un-squeamish about these, unlike Gesa who hates to even get her toes in the sea-weed. Here, Issie has found a sea cucumber (or ‘big turd’ as we call them) which are […]
Recent sunsets
One of the great things about this living aboard life is the chance to watch a different sunset every night. Here is a recent selection from Antigua, being Long Island Parham Looking over Antigua from Bird Island, with the moon rising View from Jolly Harbour, with Montserrat in the distance