Sailing for the rich and maybe famous
When you’ve got a lot of money, yachting has a different flavour to it. Here’s some of our recent observations. At the exclusive Jumby Bay resort on Antigua’s Long Island, a large motor yacht arrived, called Carpe Diem. I’ve seen lots of yachts called this (Seize the Day) but they didn’t seem quite as decisive […]
Creepy Crawlies
We spent New Year in Nonsuch Bay, quite an out of the way place with no easy way to get things like food, water, or to dispose of rubbish. This taught us a useful lesson, but I’d better tell it in Gesa’s words, from an email to one of our friends. Not for the squeamish. […]
New Year etc.
So after Christmas, it was time to say goodbye to Mum and Dad, so we went back to Deep Bay for a relaxing morning and lunchtime. Dad, Gesa and Max climbed up to an old lookout / fort above the bay, whilst the rest of us swam and relaxed on the beach. Gesa and I […]
Maxism
Max is asking about water, clouds, rain, fresh water, sea water etc so we explain it… ‘And that, Max, is why the sea is salty’ ‘But does it have any pepper?’
Our Christmas
So I realise that our last post was Christmas Eve, and what have we done since then? It’s been a very different Christmas for us out here, and lots of fun. The less fun bit was some engine maintenance, which we’d planned to spend a half day or so on and ended up taking a […]
Three more pictures
A Barracuda we caught (and threw back, not good eating) Two pictures of the ruined town of Plymouth, Montserrat
More pictures
Issie – all she wants for Christmas is her two front teeth The crew at anchor Ty Dewi sunset at Pidgeon Island, Guadaloupe Max on the beach
Some recent pictures #1
Not often we get on wi-fi so here’s some pictures: Max has learnt to drive the dinghy Gesa and Max in Deshaies, Guadaloupe Why did the chicken cross the road? Because this is the Caribbean, Man. Turtle swimming around our boat
Back in Antigua
After a splendid six hour sail in perfect conditions, we are back in English Harbour, Antigua for Christmas. We left Deshaies at 8am this morning and rode a glorious 15 knot breeze all the way here. On the way we caught a pretty big barracuda, but his fearsome teeth and stories of possible ciggatura posioning […]
Fresh bread and Pain au Chocolat
Deshaies, Guadaloupe. 18’18N 061’48W We’ve always enjoyed our visits to France. Now imagine that relaxed gallic charm, good food, fairly efficient infrastructure and all the other good things about France, transported to the Caribbean, surrounded by palm trees and sparkling ocean and bathed in sunshine. Suddenly you can overlook all the other things about France, […]