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Abaco Visit and the Wedding

We have been at Boat Harbour in Abaco, Bahamas for close to 2 weeks. The marina here is not a floating dock and presents issues getting on and off the boat. We spent the last week driving down to the house that Julie’s brother, Trahy, r…

Abaco Boat Harbour Marina

The trip from Nassau to Abaco was one of the smoothest trips we have ever taken. The seas were very calm and the storms stayed behind us all the way. During daylight hours we fished and were fortunate enough to catch a nice mahi mahi for Cha…

Just Believe Abaco Bound

We are back on the boat after spending 6 weeks in Texas with family and friends. We have our son, Charlie, and new Seadog #3, Ariel, with us. Tomorrow we will head for Boat Harbour marina in Abaco, where we will meet up with family from…

Bahamas Next Chapter-Albany

The kids left at noon and at 4:30pm the seawall behind us collapsed at Atlantis. I was standing in the cockpit and admiring the view when all hell broke loose. Julie was drying her hair and heard the commotion. I thought there had been …

Atlantis-Finale

The kids explored and enjoyed all that Atlantis had to offer – water sports, water rides and fantastic pools and beautiful beaches, golf, massages at the Mandarin spa, swimming with the dolphins, dinner, shopping at the straw market, et…

Atlantis Part 2

The kids are here! Last Saturday, our son Charlie, his girlfriend Alex, and friend Andrew and his girlfriend Blaire (TCU Spring break). arrived at the Nassau airport. We were there with the largest car we could rent, a 5-person SUV…

Atlantis Part 1-Benita and Randy Matthews Visit to Just Believe

We spent the last several days exploring the Atlantis facility and down town Nassau. This is an amazing place, there are people everywhere. There are huge boats coming and leaving all the time. We had a terrific time with Benita and Randy an…

Grand Bahama to Nassau

After the first few days in Grand Bahama West End, we decided to tour the island.  Our stay got extended several days due to the weather. We rented a car from a guy who lives near West End for $80 cash, no paper work or anythi…

Grand Bahama Island-Sunday March 4th

We left Key West earlier than we wanted (due to storm coming in from Florida)  heading for North Bimini, but changed course to the West end of Grand Bahama at 1:30 am because I was afraid to navigate into Bimini through shallow wat…

Key West-Tuesday 28 February

We arrived in Key West at daybreak and headed into the channel towards the Galleon marina. It is a really nice marina that had a transit slip that was about a foot smaller than normal so we squeezed in and the boat was locked down between th…