But first a little catching up and how we even got to Martinique… After our Barbados trip, we returned to Grenada and quickly set out for St Vincent and the Grenadines, the large group of islands to the north. Having been there several times now, we sought out some new spots such as Saline Beach…
Several islands ago, we heard that Fort de France, Martinique has one of the biggest Mardi Gras parties in the Caribbean so of course we made sure to be there. Anchoring at Anse Mitan, across the huge bay from the capital city, meant we had to take the ferry. Fortunately, it was running non-stop everyday…
While we were stateside and ostensibly helping Theresa’s father recuperate from a bad fall while in the hospital for an unrelated matter, John couldn’t let Carlo have all the sympathy and attention. He had several skin cancers removed and celebrated a birthday. We stayed through Christmas and New Years and Tess spent a couple days…
Returning from our summer sojourn to Grenada meant lighting a fire under the boat yard to finish all the projects we had planned. We knew from experience that no matter how clear the plans, little gets done if you’re not around to make it happen. So, John sweated many trips from our room on-site to…
Settle in as this post will be a bit longer than usual as we had a really busy summer. It may take a bit to fully load all the videos. (As always, be sure to click on the pictures as many have explanatory captions when opened up.) We flew to Los Angeles from Grenada and…
Upon arriving in Grenada we stopped for the night at the Underwater Sculpture Park and took a mooring. Several artists have placed over 100 figures on the sea floor between 2006 and 2021. James and John snorkeled it the next morning, taking many photos. The one above is “Christ the Redeemer”. St George, the capital…
Our July 19th, 40 nautical mile sail from St. Lucia to St. Vincent was very nice and without any of the drama of our last few passages. The seas were calm behind each island and we had a very fast sail in reasonable seas of roughly 6 feet in between. The north end of St….
In the last post, we didn’t include pictures from Fort Napoleon, located in The Saints, Guadeloupe. It was built in the 1770’s by the French and destroyed by the British in 1809. The French rebuilt it and never saw further action. Later it was eventually used as a prison. On the way to Le Marin,…
After Sarah and Peyton left, we knew that we needed to get the boat south, “down island”, as we are now well into hurricane season and just over a year ago an early season Cat 5 hit Grenada. The last big gnarly step was going to be the trip from the British Virgin Islands to…
After Sarah‘s graduation, we went to Los Angeles to visit Theresa‘s parents and then caught a Kenny Chesney concert in Las Vegas at the Sphere. It’s been several years since we’ve seen him so it was great to catch him live again. The opening sequence was truly amazing so there a little clip below. We…
