Position: 16°17’58″N 61°47’50″W Guadeloupe sealed the deal for us. As soon as we stepped ashore we were in France. Everything from the road signs to l’insouciance de la police made us feel as though we’d been magically transported 6,000 kilometres …
Position: 17°38’00.4″N 63°14’19.7″W Climbing to the top of Mount Scenery on Saba Island, it is easy to forget you’re on an active volcano. The lava dome is not only the top of the island, but the highest point in the …
Position: 17°37’58.3″N 63°14’16.3″W Clouds hang on Saba. Viewed from St. Martin, Saba (pronounced Say-bah) is a giant fist of a volcano thrust out of the sea. The volcano is quiet these days, but as you approach from the north you …
Position: 18°30’02″N 64°21’57″W Last year we celebrated New Year’s Eve in Charleston, South Carolina. Avid readers of this blog will recall the ‘bomb cyclone’, aka freak snowstorm, that brought the city to a standstill. Our big celebration was to crawl …
I started and did not finish a Coursera course on Creative Writing. Here is one of the exercises and my submission. Peer feedback was only available to paying customers, not for us auditors. If the story sounds derivative and familiar, …
Position: 18°25’05″N 64°36’35″W Having ordered our new windlass motor, we were stuck in the Virgin Islands until it arrived. Having successfully raised the anchor by hand with all my vertebrae intact, we left the US Virgins and headed over to …
Position: 18°25’48.8″N 64°26’40.7″W We take a visit to The Baths on Virgin Gorda. You can pick up a free mooring and swim or paddle into the beach there. The Baths are a natural wonder. Huge boulders form caves and pools …
Position: 18°21’05.2″N 64°46’40.1″W The Backstreet Buccaneers take a hike on St. John. Along the way we stopped at a couple of ruined buildings of indeterminate age. 150 years ago the hills you see in the video were terraced and covered …
My chat with my friend Thomas was cut short today because I had to shoo away a large, bareboat catamaran that decided to anchor much too close to Aleta. One of the things I most appreciate about Thomas is his …
