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The first two weeks were a blur — we watched Wimbledon Tennis all day. Good ole satellite TV — in this part of the world most of the commercials are in Spanish. We are on the south side of Grenada in Prickly Bay. The Grenada Medical School (mostly…

The Caribbean has lots of countries — which means lots of checking in and checking out. This is the captain’s duty, crew stay aboard until the boat and all aboard are cleared. (Continued…)

It is a small world! A senior woman I know from Wall Street spends some of the year in Bequia, so we planned our arrival so we could see her. She unfortunatly was with elderly parents stateside, but her wonderful husband Emmett gave us the royal isla…

FOOD: I do cook locally, and am loving all the tropical fruits. Recently discovered that we love the taste of passion fruit, and the crunch of the seeds in our daily mixed fruit for breakfast (topped for me, with some thickened yogurt and my new favo…

The Annual Yole Boat Races: No keel, just a large crew hanging over the water to keep the boat up right.  (View Post…)

FOOD: I was in the Le Marin Marina office last Monday, and the manager told me that everyone on Martinique eats crabs that day. When I asked why, he only shrugged, and couldn’t tell me. I had noticed on their calendar that literally every other day w…

Would any country but the French do this? (View Post…)

Had an easy ride over from St. Pitre Guadeloupe, to Les Sainte, a group of 8 small islands that is part of Guadeloupe — and therefore French and no need clear in — but an official just came out in a tender to tell us we had to move to behind the yell…

It kills me– all this cheese (and there was a separate cheese counter as well), and ironically they only stock fat-reduced creme fraiche!  (View Post…)

DK was having a great time taking these. Aries Too’s anchorage right inside Falmouth Harbor provided a ring side seat. (View Post…)