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Lunch with Friends

9:35 Local time
Hi All,
  Yesterday, Tuesday, we went to visit the marina on Bolgatty Island and we will move there tomorrow, Thursday morning at high tide.  Randal really misses the interaction with other cruisers.  I miss our friends w…

Cochin Synagogue and Sarah Cohen

Hi All,
  I visited Sarah Cohen yesterday and the Cochin Synagogue today.  Randal stayed on the boat and supervised some men who were washing the pounds of salt from DoraMac. 
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DoraMac
Cochin Synagogue Jew Town

The Synagogue is locat…

Musings from Randal

Although India seems vast the land here in Cochin, or at least the street we are on, is precious. Very little is allotted for human traffic much less passage of automobiles, motorcycles, tuk tuks, trucks, and everything else you can imagine. This area …

Mas lodo

Fay in the mud. (View Post…)

Diesel Duck

PLEASE read this first!

A speech from the throne: (just kidding) In June of this year I started this blog and the first entry was our arrival in Curacao from the outer islands of Venezuela. I’ll try to stay current with my entries, but Benno and I have since recaptured the …

Mud Baths

The mud baths were incredible. You walk up to an old volcano crater, step down into the mud and the experience begins. (View Post…)

More mud

John even enjoyed it! (View Post…)

Winter Dream’in – Part 2

I’ve been fussing further with the track data I extracted from the navigation computer and have uploaded all our anchorages up to both the Microsoft and Google mapping sites.  These can be opened up as a separate browser windows and don’t requ…

Winter Dream’in

While looking out at the Seattle winter grayness it is fun to relive this summer’s journeys. I pulled from the navigation computer the tracks recorded by the software.  I’ve exported them into a file that can be opened in Google Earth (softwar…

September 3-19 – Propped Migration

Rather than pretend I am keeping up the blog by back dating entries, this post is a roll-up of things since Ketchikan. There is a wonderful movie about birds, Winged Migration. I feel as though we’ve become a part of a human equivalent by joining th…