A mile away from Ile Pinel is Tintemarre Island. Both small islands are off the east coast of the French side of St Martin. They both have wonderful beaches, but…
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As I was telling you yesterday, Ile Pinel has dozens on iguanas on it and they all scurry down from the rocks and onto the beach area whenever someone starts…
At the north end of Orient Bay, on the French side of St Martin, there is an amazing little island called Ile Pinel. While Orient Bay is choppy and exposed…
When my best friend, his brother (another close friend), his brother’s family, and I did the short hike up Fife Hill at the entrance to Oyster Pond we found some…
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…
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…
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…
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…
[Shane – Below is the article I wrote for the April issue of All At Sea – South Florida edition that is coming out soon. I hope you enjoy it]…
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…
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…
[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…