This offseason I broke my tradition and did not travel overseas. Instead I took a two and a half week road trip in America. I started off by flying into…
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Two months ago I had guest that did not show up until 5pm, so we chose to spend the first night on the dock instead of rushing around. Well one…
Sometimes my friends like to take me tubing when we are both sitting in Christmas Cove. I think it is a blast and a fun way to get some excercise….
On Sunday I told you how my guest and I did a pre-dawn hike from Salt Pond Bay out to Ram Head in order to see the sunrise. Well, here…
My outside table is white fiberglass and needs to have a tablecloth on it to give the cockpit some color. In the past I have used brown, but I was…
Here are some of the turks head cactus I told you about yesterday. You will find these all over Ram Head if you hike to the southern most point on…
Every now and then I get guest that let me take them to the south side of St John instead of the BVI and they are rewarded with beautiful, quiet…
Do you remember last month when I wrote about swimming with the dolphins? Well during the time I was in the water I handed my camera to my friend driving…
[Shane – Below is an the article I wrote for my monthly column on the Bahamas that is found in All At Sea: South Florida edition and should now be…
One of my guest took this great photo with her new phone and man was I blown away. I can not believe how well it brought in the light. No…
Everyone knows Jost Van Dyke as one of the best islands in the BVI due to the amazing beach in White Bay. Of course, everyone has to go to Soggy…
Tomorrow I am going to tell you all about the hike I did with a family up to the top of Jost Van Dyke’s hilltop, but today I wanted to…
Cayo Santiago is a 37.5-acre island located half a mile from Humacao, Puerto Rico. The island actually consists of a smaller, flat island connected by an sandy isthmus to a…
[Shane – The following article was written on Jul 23, 2018 by Mark Shiffer for Vintage News and can be found in the original story at https://www.thevintagenews.com/2018/07/23/pirate-outposts/] From the 17th to the 19th centuries,…
Aren’t these two dolphins beautiful? I still can’t get over how much I enjoyed swimming for half an hour with them. I wrote all about this experience yesterday, so I…
I decided today I was going to write about my typical day when I am not on charter. How I get up, have breakfast, stretch, write, work on boat projects,…
What can make getting a deliscious pizza in paradise even better? How about the same pie with dolphins swimming around the boat? That is exactly what happened a while back…
When I first bought the Guiding Light in May 2009 one of the first things I did was replace the old plow style anchor with a brand new 33 kilo…
Today is going to be my last post about Trinidad for a while and I could find no other photo that summed it up more than seeing a flock of…
I had an absolutely fantastic time in Trinidad & Tobago and I did not get to see everything I want to see in Trinidad, but I will have to come…
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I have Rondal joining me today and we are talking about translation and languages, which is very helpful to the world traveler. Rondal has spent his entire career as a…
We are going to finish off the week with another shot inside the cave on Gaspar island, which is just off Trinidad. If you have not already you should check…
Well it is true. The US Navy took over the entire area of Chaguaramas and ended up forming the largest US Naval base outside US soil. The base slowly got…
The very best part of the short tour we took over to Gaspar Island, across the bay from Chaguaramas in Trinidad, was going into a cave and finding this amazing pond….
When I arrived in Chaguaramas, Trinidad I heard about the Gaspar Grande cave with a pool of water in it and I knew I had to go see it. It…
As we were touring the Caroni Swamp in a local flat boat we keep getting closer and closer to a flock of flamingos. Turns out were could get this close…
While I loved the many places I have seen during my land tours on Trinidad, the one bad part of Trinidad is the lack of places for cruising. As big…
I love how this photo has the rainbow coming down in the middle of a flock of flamingos in the Caroni Swamp in Trinidad with the national bird, Scarlet Ibis,…
The Caroni Swamp is a 12,000 acre swamp located on the west coast of Trinidad. It is the 2nd largest wetlands on the island and is protected under the Ramsar…
Did you like the Asa Wright Bird Center yesterday? Well remember the little creek they damned up years ago to form a bathing hole? All around it are these little…