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1st Day At The Beach

Bimini has very nice beaches and we thought this would be the perfect time to let Muddy check it out. Radar has always loved the water and we were hoping Mud would also. He did love the soft sand and had lots of fun scampering around, but the surf scar…

Bimini layover

We’ve never pulled into Bimini before. For whatever reason we’ve always stopped at the next little island south, Cat Cay, if we didn’t want to pull an all-nighter or needed to wait for the stream to settle before crossing back to the states.Before pull…

Solomon Atoll, Chagos

On the short trip from Peros Banhos to Solomon, we trolled a lure. We caught one Bonito after another. We threw back (released live) the first two and then we kept the last one. Coming across the reef pass into Solomon, we also caught a toothy barra…

Talk about an abrubt change of plans..

We realized that the winds were picking up and a night on the hook out on the bank was probably going to be uncomfortable… and it dawned on us, we really have no plans… so, we took a hard turn to starboard and are now at Bimini Bay Marina and Resor…

Incognito… for a few days

Nordhavn Exumas Abacos Bahamas trawler Caribbean Pickwick Boat dogs

Something I posted a couple of years ago…

Things have changed somewhat… I ran across this again today and for some reason it hit home…Click this..http://istaboawaypoints.blogspot.com/2010/08/life-is-short.htmlNordhavn Exumas Abacos Bahamas trawler Caribbean Pickwick Boat dogs

Shipping

Well, it’s official – kind of.    Our South Pacific adventures may actually come to an end in the next few months.  We have a contract to ship Oso back to the Seattle area from Brisbane, “loading between August 20 – 30…

Shipping

Well, it’s official – kind of.    Our South Pacific adventures may actually come to an end in the next few months.  We have a contract to ship Oso back to the Seattle area from Brisbane, “loading between August 20 – 30…

Finally threw off those bow lines…

Not exactly sure about plans, but at least we moving again. Heading south, which means some islands somewhere.The weather was not exactly pleasant yesterday and it seemed we were on the edge of a squall all day. Which mean we got the rough seas, but no…

Townsville Turtle Hospital by Bear

        Did you know that there is such thing as a turtle hospital? There is one in Townsville, Australia, which is connected to an aquarium. When we visited, there were five sick turtles.    &nbs…