We're up at 0600, check out with customs, the D.R. Navy and port captain, leave the dock with fairly calm winds and clear the reef at 0750. We are motoring and noshing and I feel pretty good tummy wise. We see whales in the near distance, on their way north with their young ones. Poof …
Dominican Republic, Water World
We're here, safe and in one piece! Happy Dance! I'm swimming with a dolphin, finally. All my life I wanted to do this and at the ripe old age of 59 a bucket list item is happening. Water World is a complex with a marina, casino, restaurants and a marine park, that is where I …
Rough Passage
Leaving T&C finally outside the reef at 1420 on our 2 night passage. Crazy going around reefs markers and buoys, but our chart plotter software is spot on and we are free. Wind reports lied again, winds are on the nose and we have to motor. We are doing a max of 3.5 knots in …
Turks and Caicos
We have mosquitoes! lots and lots of nasty, biting, blood sucking mosquitoes. We spray the boat, close it up and leave for a walk on the beach...for the next week we repeat this boat treatment and finally eradicate the nasty buggers. Eagles at the beachRoadside friend View from Sapodilla HillView from Sapodilla HillYummy local brew
Turks and Caicos Here We Come!
More problems raising the anchor with the broken anchor mate. There's no way to fix it until we get into a dock, remove the anchor, climb up under the pulpit and repair the thing. So the swearing, yelling, kicking and yanking continues. Ah well, such is a sailor's life. We see a catamaran in the …
Abraham’s Bay
We've been stuck at the dock at Flying Fish for a week, finally the winds are calm enough we can venture out and go on to our next destination, Abraham's Bay. Seas remain lumpy after so many days of brisk winds, but it is comfortable. So with sails up and the motor on I settle …
Clarence Town
We're off to find the bakery. Signs tell us it's "the pink house at the top of the hill". Hum, well, OK we follow signs and walk along the only "road" we see. Sure enough there is a bakery, in a pink house at the top of the hill. How did we actually find it? …
Conception Island to Long Island
This is the rolliest anchorage ever. The swells have the boat in constant motion, making a restful sleep nearly impossible, at least for me. Steve on the other hand hits the pillow and he's out. In our travels we have anchored with the same boats again and again. Sebas, Seahorse, Kindred Spirit, and others. I …
Conception Island, Bahamas
We motored out of Cape Eleuthera Channel at 1045 on Feb. 3rd, into very light winds. Making passage overnight means arrive at Conception Island, a nature preserve maintained by the Bahamian government, early this morning. We anchored in 14 feet of the most pristine water I have ever seen. You can see the bottom as …
Cape Eleuthera
After leaving Hatchet Bay yesterday we spent the night at French Leave. We had reserved a mooring ball, but upon arrival found that we'd been poached. someone was on our ball and the marina could not raise them. We were directed to a dock where we tied up without assistance from marina staff. If you …
Harmony At Sea 