Oyster Pond, on the east coast of St Martin, has a tricky entrance and is on a lee shore. Once you get inside the bay it is flat calm and…
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Earlier this week I wrote about walking to Fort Amsterdam and how I did not think it was worth the effort. Well what is worth the effort is to take…
St Martin is one of the easiest places to check into and out of, but there are only three places to do this. The first place is at the bridge…
Fort Amsterdam was built by the Dutch in 1631 and is located on the peninsula separating Great Bay and Little Bay. Two years later the Spanish captured, and occupied, the…
Over 400 years ago the Dutch settled on the south side of St Martin in order to harvest salt from the large salt pond across from a narrow strip of…
Would you come down to the Caribbean with the expectation of finding a Star Wars and movie makeup museum? No? Well that is exactly what you will find in Phillipsburg…
This small little capital on the south side of St Martin was founded in 1763 by John Philips, a Scottish captain in the Dutch navy. Philipsburg soon became a bustling…
During my dinghy tour of Simpson Lagoon on St Martin that I told you about yesterday I came across this old pirate ship anchored in the middle of the large…
As you read in the last blog, I made it to St Martin and anchored the boat in Simpson Bay lagoon. Now that I am here I was excited to…
After leaving Red Hook in St Thomas at noon in mid May I motored across the Anegada Passage after reaching the southern tip of Virgin Gorda. The trip across was…
Last week I wrote about my plans to spend the rest of this season and next season in the Leeward and Windward Islands. The day I was dropping off my…
Months ago my friend found a little waterproof camera floating by his boat. He picked it up and found no photos on it to help determine who it needed to…
Since I am leaving the Virgin Islands and will not be back in US waters for some time and my batteries were getting near the end (I already lost one…
Great Tobago Island is a small island laying 4-5 miles west of Jost Van Dyke and north of St John. With is you will find Little Tobago Island, Cable Rock…
A while back I was snorkeling with some guest and I found a piece of wreckage in about 25-30 feet of water and when I dove down to investigate it…
Several months ago I had a great group of older guest that wanted nothing more than to sail and snorkel. The best part is they want to do all the…
Alert! Alert! Alert! The food truck craze is coming to the Virgin Islands, but with a twist. They are actually food boats. Haha. First we had Pizza Pi set up…
Over on Water Island in the USVI they show movies on the beach every Monday night during the cruising season. Heidi’s Honeymoon Grill puts this on by stringing a giant…
Before these blogs follow me down island, I wanted to catch up on a few places I visited this year in the Virgin Islands. The first one is Culebra. This…
That is a good question. After the two week road trip I took last September to see a bunch of National Park in California and Arizona, which I just finished…
[Shane – Below is my May submission for my All At Sea – South Florida monthly article. I love sharing my articles with my readers and would like to know…
Cruisers come in all kinds of boats. From trawlers to sail boats. Monohulls to catamarans. Small cuddy cabins to massive mega yachts. One thing that is common among each of…
So this is going to be my last blog about my road trip through California and Arizona and I want to spend it letting you know how amazing of a…
Chiricahua National Monument is a unit within the National Parks System located 36 miles southeast of Willcox, AZ. The highlight within Chiricahua National Monument is the hundreds of column rock…
Fort Bowie National Historic Site is the site of Fort Bowie, which was built in 1862 in order to secure Apache Pass and Springs. It sits in the southeast corner…
I hope you enjoyed reading about Saguro National Park yesterday and learned a lot about those giants like I did. Today’s “photo of the day” is one last photo from…
Think about the southwest right now. What is the first thing that comes to mind? I bet it is a desert scene with a very tall cactus having two arms…
But you do not want to get to close, because it is a cactus after all. Haha. What do you think of it? I found these giants to be amazing…
Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument is the only place you will find the cactus called organ pipe in the USA, because this is the northern limit of it habitat. They…
The Casa Grande National Monument consists of the ruins of multiple structures surrounded by a compound wall constructed by the ancient people of the Hohokam period, who farmed the Gila…