FOOD: It was last night, but too good not to mention: a fabulous shrimp etouffee (dark-red roux based sauce and a lot of shrimp butter added later) from Paul Prudhomme’s cookbook. Served on top of creamy stone ground grits, and accompanied by amazi…
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The Tropics!
Just a factoid I discovered more by accident than by design: We have been in the tropics. Woo-hoo!
The tropics is an area defined as between the Tropic of Cancer in the northern latitudes, and the Tropic of Capricorn in the southern latitudes; both ima…
To the Abacos / Tiloo Cay
Thursday, April 7, 2011, Day 193. Rock Sound to Current Cut, Eleuthera. We are finally underway again. The trip was a bit rolly with winds from the east at about 15 knots and seas 3 to 4 feet. We couldn’t read, so we turned on Morning Joe on the …
Norman’s Cay
We left White Point heading back to Staniel Cay to do some quick provisioning before continuing our journey north while the others were preparing to head south and east to the out islands. Much to our surprise Big Major’s Spot was not as full as we e…
Georgetown
(Journaled over a few days at Georgetown)
Georgetown, Exumas
Our cruise from Long Island to Georgetown was smooth, we were running downwind and the temperatures and humidity were high, so it was a hot ride. The warmest w…
Out of Left Field
First let us say, in case you can’t tell from all these blog entries, that we adore our boat. Buying and moving aboard our new Selene 53 was the best thing we’ve ever done. It seemed like a wild move at the time, since we’d never owned a boat and…
El Salvador and Environs
It was exciting to clear out of Mexico at long last. For this big passage, we decided to ‘buddy boat,’ meaning we traveled in the company of a couple of other boats.We made what amounted to a 5-day passage, stopping only briefly in Puerto Chiapas r…
Rock Sound Revisited
Friday, April 1, 2011, Day 187. We hung around the marina most of the day and left for Rock Sound at 3:00 pm to meet Ray and Gail tomorrow. We tidied up a bit for their visit.Saturday, April 2, 2011, Day 188. Gail and Ray arrived in the morning. We…
Cape Eleuthera Marina
Wednesday, March 30, 2011, Day 185. The weather for the next few days look awful with winds from the southwest and west at 15 to 30 knots. For our own comfort and since Ray and Gail were coming, we decided to move to Cape Eleuthera Marina, and planne…
Long Island
No, not New York!
Long Island- Salt Pond settlement garage
The 56 nm run from Rum Cay to Thompson Bay on the west side of Long Island was uneventful, and even the fishing was a non-event, except that the lure that seemed…
