“Father, daughter, down by the waterShells sink, dreams float,life’s good on our boat…”~Jimmy Buffett: “Delany Talks to Statues”Gratitude, gratitude, gratitude for a fabulous weekend! Ally came home to visit after five months away at colle…
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Stranger than fiction
“He’s a stranger in a strange land,Just a stranger in a strange land…” …
Whirlwind week and onward!
Just so you know, we haven’t exactly sat still since we’ve returned to Jensen Beach, our home port, a mere week ago. It feels like a month, with all the ground we’ve covered! We’re going to be land-based for a bit these next few months, so are beginnin…
Back in the Land of Plenty!
Wow…I’m sort of speechless….in culture shock. This wasn’t expected, to be honest. After seven months aboard in the Caribbean, I am seeing parts of the United States from a new point of view now that we are back; I feel like I’ve just come out of a …
Last leg for this journey…
…and we are now in our home port, once again. We are back in Jensen Beach, snug and safe after a fabulous cruise. We had a great night on anchor at Rose Island, happily having a quiet night in settled weather, even though we got a huge wash-down in a…
Seclusion in paradise!
Secluded, private and undisturbed…that is our island for the night! We cruised from Highborne Cay north through the shallows north of Ship Channel Cay through the Middle Grounds and decided that we would bypass Nassau. The anchorages in Nassau are ma…
Landfall: Staniel Cay, Exumas
We spent two nights in Staniel Cay Yacht Club, at the marina, rather than anchored out by Big Major’s. We’re feeling a bit decadent for ourselves, being in another marina so soon after all our anchoring out, but we enjoyed it. We bypassed Georgetow…
Thoughts on Night Watches
Not my usual travelogue entry, but days blend into night aboard on long passages, and one gets to thinking…Notes while on watch — 0200 am, 11 April 2011It’s truly the middle of the night…2 a.m. I’m on watch until dawn, just enjoying the solitu…
En route to the Exumas!
The cruising life lends itself to its own rhthyms. No alarm clocks but the sun, and we were up at a leisurely 7:00. It feels so good to let the body dictate when to awake! After our usual pre-cruise engine room checks and other preparations to batten t…
Mayaguana – full of surprises!
Ron and I were up early on this gorgeous day, and by 8:30, were in the water diving. We dove on the reef that encircles the island, just to the east of the eastern entrance to Abraham’s Bay. We used the sonar on Eclipse to follow the bottom profile…
