Wednesday, February 09, 2011 7:07:45 PMLocation: Boot Key HarborThe boat position was not recorded. No recent weather observation is available. Bottom clean and propeller shiny. Laundry done. Water loaded. Dinghy onboard. Motorcycle onboard. Provisi…
Turquoise
We have been spending the last couple of weeks exploring New Caledonia’s satellite islands. First we departed Noumea and sailed down New Cal’s west coast to Ile des Pins (Island of the Pines) just off the southernmost tip of the main island, and now we are cruising through the Loyalties, a string of islands some […]
Getting to know your neighbor!
We awoke this morning to find a sailboat anchored just off our stern. (No, we didn’t have the sign out…!) Turns out their mooring painter had parted from the mooring shackle during the night — no fault of theirs — and they found themselves bumpin…
The good life in Mazatlan.
The good life continues in Mazatlan. We’ve added a location map to the top of the blog that will have our current (and past) locations as we travel around. Thanks to Eric & Sherrel at www.sailsarana.com for the code snips.We use a Dell mini desktop com…
Bolgatty Island: The other half
The path from the Marina/Hotel complex to the ferry and the rest of the island.
Restaurant and Ice Cream Parlor now over grown.
All of the cruisers wish this place still existed because we all like ice cream and this marina has no small store like th…
Bolgatty Island Marina
Hi All,
All of our time is spent on DoraMac or in town so we really haven’t made use of the marina facilities. It actually is the only marina in India!
Ru
DoraMac
Bolgatty Island
Marina
The Marina office is in this building. I have…
Little Bay, Great Guana Cay
Nancy and Jim dinghied over in the morning and told us that they decided to move to Little Bay, on Great Guana Cay just south of Black Point Settlement, the site of a failed resort and this lived-in castle. We went to Staniel Cay for internet access a…
NASA Green Building
I see this: NASA Green Building and think this is kind of like having a solar powered oil rig!I’m thinking just lighting the fuse on one of the rockets they refuel must pretty well cancel out all of their green effort entirely.For the purists out there…
Adventures of the Mystery "Campervan"
The South Island Exploration Begins Bright and early on the morning of Feb 1/11, you find Glen and I waiting at the top of the dock for our taxi to take us to the Auckland airport where we will be whisked off, by Jet Star Air, down to Christchur…
Boat Work and People Play
I can’t believe how quickly time goes by when you are busy (and having fun). Here we are at the end of January and I have only written our adventures down once. Guess I’m just getting lazy, but also, how exciting can it be for anyone else to rea…