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I’ve been thinking about clouds a lot lately, and I don’t know why.For some reason, they keep drawing my eye, becoming my focus of late. Not thatthat they are shy about it, towering up there in the sky, huge and hoveringover the islands as they are…

Since the weather hasbeen so gray and gloomy (with the low pressure “troughing” over Antiguacontinuing to persist and linger) we’ve been doing what we can to get off theboat and have fun! As a result, just about every day, we’ve had a newadvent…

With the weathercontinuing to be dismal, we used the relatively calm seas to make the crossingto Antigua. We left with first light (what light there was, at dawn on such agray and gloomy day) and made our way from Nevis through the northeasterly4’-6

“Scattered showers and clusters ofisolated thunderstorms are in the moistsector of the Caribbean while the remainder ofthe Caribbean is under fair conditions this morning”…toimprove!! There are very few certainties about cruising, but …

Pink Sands of Harbour Island, BahamasYes, we’re living the life! (Finally…between oil changes, shower sump cleanings and boat projects, that is!) We’ve gone “on vacation” and spent the last couple of days simply enjoying being together as a fa…

Afterenduring the bad weather and the swells rolling relentlessly through the  anchorage, we  regretfully slipped away from Statia and cruised over toBasseterre, St. Kitt’s. We all needed a respite from the lurching and rolling,so we were m…

One ofthe things we love about cruising is the chance to view history up close andpersonal. In the Caribbean, history is literally right there in front of you, whereit blends into daily life through the many homes and buildings that arecenturies old. S…

It’s been a full few days! Ally flew in to join us for a couple of weeks, as she’s currently between fall and winter quarters at DU, so we enjoyed celebrating Thanksgiving aboard. The galley was full of mixing bowls, pans and fixings; we had the usual …

The colorful promenade along Philipsburg’s waterfrontWecelebrated our 25th wedding anniversary today with our good friends, the Baldonis, who were here in St.Maarten on a cruise. We were delighted that we all were on St. Maarten at the sametime, and ex…

Ok, it really wasn’t much of an adventure, but we did have a bit of excitement after we left the French side, and moved to the Dutch side of Sint Maarten. We moved over to Groot Baai/Great Bay on the south side of  St. Maarten and droppedanchor th…