Aug 30
Well, I’m first going to be a little more diplomatic than Karin and apologise to all you faithful readers for not updating the blog. Karin forgot to mention a few things. First of all, Marike sailed the four day stretch from Guadeloupe to Puerto Rico with the Yoshimas on Amar sem fim, to help with …
Aug 30
Well, would you look at that, it’s time to blog again! After Dominica (I don’t believe I blogged about there), we went to Guadeloupe, a lovely French island with yummy French food. Diving was free, and it’s a nature reserve for underwater life, so there were plenty of fish for us to see while we …
Aug 27
As we approached Gaudeloupe for the first time, I immediately just liked it. It seemed so picturesque and not crowded at all. Of the two French Islands we definitely prefer Gaudeloupe to Martinique – and not just for the diving. We spent a lot of time hiking and geo-caching on Gaudeloupe. This is after all, …
Jun 20
Ask any one of us and we will say that Gaudeloupe is our very BEST and FAVOURITE Caribbean island. We arrived in Gaudeloupe from Dominica. A huge downpour of rain hit us within the first hour as we anchored just off the Capital, Basse-Terre. Clearing into the French Islands is a very easy process and involves only …
May 31
In Dominica there is only one place for a cruising ship to dock. So either there is one or there isn’t, and it pretty much dominates the scene if it is there. Even if you somehow manage to miss the fact that there is no huge hulk cruise ship, you notice the lack of other …
May 21
Dominica We left Fort de France pretty early in the morning, (around 5:15) and put up all our sails to catch the 8 knots of wind. We had left a tiny bit earlier than the Yoshimas, so by the time they had caught up to us, (with their engine) we were all a little out …
Apr 11
The sail over to Bequia from Tobago Cays wasn’t that bad, but it did take most of the day. (We’re getting too used to all this convenient island hopping! ) When we arrived, I was blown away by the amount of sailing boats anchored in the bay. Here there was actually space for those really …
Mar 23
GRENADA ! ! Our first REAL Caribbean Island. ( According to some people Trinidad doesn’t quite qualify.) Grenada is a popular ‘stay over’ destination for cruisers during the Hurricane season as Hurricanes so seldom hit this far South. It is THE place to go if you are interested in meeting fellow cruisers. We found the amount of boats quite overwhelming, …
Mar 11
Before I start this blog, I would just like to mention the fact that if you wish to view see the photos better, you can actually click on them, and they will enlarge to their full size on a new tab. I recently figured it out myself, so just in case anyone else was getting …
Feb 24
Well lets get started I will tell you of our travels in a very weird order, so you have to pay close attention. I’m going to start in Grenada. In Grenada we arrived at three in the morning. I had the middle watch so I was awake, but actually it was during the last watch that we arrived …
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