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After all the revelry and party we departed the wild side of Patong Bay and headed northwest for the 60 mile crossing to the Samilan Islands National Park. The National Park was established in 1982, the 43rd National Park in Thailand. It is a no fi…
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Return to Samilan Islands
Ariel View of AT in the Bahamas
My daughter Kirstin took this picture as her Watermaker flight from Staniel Cay, Exumas, Bahamas passed over our anchorage at Big Majors. Aries Too is in the bottom right in 10′ of water — with solar panels on our hard top. (Continued…)
Fabulous Company; Great Eating
Picture is of Sarah, in the cockpit of Aries Too, holding her Celia Bars. (Continued…)
2013 is Here!
So often one hears people say on New Year’s Eve that they wish for a better year, that they hope all goes better and that the trials of the past year improve. This year as we all sat and revealed our thoughts on the year passing we were all just h…
Back Out on the Water!
We enjoyed Christmas with friends aboard Furthur at the dock. Our quest for a turkey failed again so I baked a couple of stuffed ducks, this is may become the Asia holiday tradition. A fellow cruiser, a findacrew friend, a traveler and a Thai friend…
Quick Note
Wel-l-l-l… we thought we had solved the “slideshow” function… With the help of some friends, we found a couple workarounds if the slideshow in the latest posting delivered to your e-mail doesn’t show and slide automatically: On some I-phones (older than 5) and MAC’s, there’s a question: ”Trouble clicking?” at the very bottom of the […]
HAPPY HOLIDAYS
We wish you and yours the very best of this most special season and much happiness in the New Year! 2012 has certainly been full and exciting for us!! Early in the year, we fulfilled Susan’s long time fantasy to “winter in the Keys” when we split the months of December, January and February between Key […]
Watch Out for Tankers, Dear
As I headed for bed after leaving West End and headed South, I knew we would run into a lot of tanker traffic outside of Freeport, a major commercial center. Watch out for tankers! When I came back for my turn at the helm at 7am we were just past the …
Trying Again
Last March, we started on our first big trip on our Nordhavn 55 — with plans to cruise the Caribbean, across the top of South America, thru the Panama Canal and up Central America to Mexico — only to get stopped at the very beginning in the Bahamas b…
Now Time to fix the Captain
With Furthur on the way to being all ship shape I took a day to work on the soul. In Phuket that means a trip to the Big Buddha. Last year I visited the temple many times and each I walked away with a renewal of the spirit. The times I went with a Tha…
