Anz (Dutch woman on neighboring sailboat) and I walked to the daily local market in Andros. Piles of avocados, plantains, yucca, cilantro, hot and sweet peppers, onions, tomatoes, squash, and chickens. If you live here chances are good that you don’t…
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You Are What You Eat
In supermarkets, I always watch out for what get the largest amount of display area. In the southern US it is cornmeal and BBQ sauce. Here it is oil and rice. In Ole, the local mercado, I saw this row of oil, and huge sacks and open bins of rice wit…
Santo Domingo
We have a rental car and have been driving the 12 miles west to Santo Dominico the capital and largest city in the Dominican Republic with close to 3 million people. The city, which was founded by Bartholomew (Christopher’s brother) Columbus in 1496, i…
Cruising the Southside of Hispaniola
NAV: We took the ‘road less traveled’ going through the Windward Passage on the western side of Hispaniola (not the rougher Mona Passage on the Eastern side), and cruising the southern/Caribbean Sea side of Hispaniola (the island with Haiti on the wes…
Ariel View of AT in the Bahamas
My daughter Kirstin took this picture as her Watermaker flight from Staniel Cay, Exumas, Bahamas passed over our anchorage at Big Majors. Aries Too is in the bottom right in 10′ of water — with solar panels on our hard top. (Continued…)
Fabulous Company; Great Eating
Picture is of Sarah, in the cockpit of Aries Too, holding her Celia Bars. (Continued…)
Watch Out for Tankers, Dear
As I headed for bed after leaving West End and headed South, I knew we would run into a lot of tanker traffic outside of Freeport, a major commercial center. Watch out for tankers! When I came back for my turn at the helm at 7am we were just past the …
Trying Again
Last March, we started on our first big trip on our Nordhavn 55 — with plans to cruise the Caribbean, across the top of South America, thru the Panama Canal and up Central America to Mexico — only to get stopped at the very beginning in the Bahamas b…
Poor Bibi — Lucky Us
We can’t figure out why he went into the water. He was on a wide straight dock…must have seen something. Who knows what goes on in those kitty brains? The great news is that a man on the dock saw him go into the water, and stopped by our boat to t…
Bushel of Oysters
Matt, my brother, came down to Folly Beach (south of Charleston, SC) where we were for Thanksgiving with Douglas’ brother Bruce and Gaby. The Sunset Cay Marina is off the Stono River and surrounded by gorgeous marshlands. (Continued…)
