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On your mark, get set, ready?…

Hold it, hold it, , the weather has turned in the wrong direction. Stand down.But we do see an opportunity mid week, so… we’ll see.In the meantime, our good friends Peter and Suzanne have flown in and are now aboard Morewater. We enjoyed dinner with …

5 Fs

     On the First Friday of February at Little Farmers Cay there is a festival.  The locals from the island are joined by Bahamians from other islands as well as cruising visitors for food, music, dancing, contests and Class-C …

Diesel Duck

Watching through the spy glass

There is no shortage of firewood and dry palm tree leaves to set up a fire on this little island. Our friends are busy with the preparations to build a BBQ pit. (View Post…)

Diesel Duck

Guess who is coming for dinner?

It is blowing a good steady 20 knots and a little chop runs through the channels of the San Blas islands. But on the lee side of a beautiful, tiny island with a sugary white sand beach we spy two young Swiss cruisers attending an open fire. They are …

Dream Catcher’s Great Loop 2011-02-05 08:14:00

Day 163  Harbour Cay Club, Marathon, FL Friday, February 4, 2011A neighbor at Harbour Cay ClubWe worked around the boat during the day, but at sunset we joined a group from Harbour Cay Club for drinks at the tiki hut at the end of one of the …

Fun in the sun – Day 126 – Marathon to Islamorada, FL

Time to move on.  Our goal today was Islamorada some 43 mile east of Marathon.  This move puts us within 60 miles of Miami Beach.  We have reservations at the Miami Beach Marina for the Miami Boat Show.Again we awoke to PERFECT…

Ayurvedic sciatica treatment

Hi All,
  One must be open to new experiences………
Sciatica
My sciatica started in again and I couldn’t walk very far or even stand up long by evening time. At the Crabtree’s Sunday lunch Louisa recommended the Kottakkal Arya V…

Naples Boat Club, Naples, Florida

We travelled down to Naples today, almost a perfect travel day. Warm and sunny, light breeze. The Gulf was nice and calm. When we left Fort Myers, we were at the end of the Gulf Intra-coastal waterway, so our travels from there on to Marathon in the Ke…

#37 Naval Exercises

McHale’s Navy, the Mexico Navy and beach storming with unusual prowess and reckless abandon.  This week we joyfully had Patty and Allen White join us on Eliana.  Normally, we try not to dish out quite so much punishment to our guests, but thi…

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#37 Naval Exercises

McHale’s Navy, the Mexico Navy and beach storming with unusual prowess and reckless abandon.  This week we joyfully had Patty and Allen White join us on Eliana.  Normally, we try not to dish out quite so much punishment to our guests, but thi…