The Caribbean region has always been a favorite holiday destination for the rich and famous. Around Christmas time, entertainment magazines are filled with paparazzi images of Hollywood celebrities and other…
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Back in the begining of August I shared an article I wrote and submitted to several sailing magazines. Well turns out Multihull Sailor chose to publish it in thier fall…
[Shane – this week I broke up an article I wrote summarizing our cruise for some sailing magazines. The first part was on Sunday, the second part was on Tuesday, and…
[Shane – on Sunday I told you how I wrote an article and submitted it to some sailing magazines, but I was letting my readers read it first. This is…
[Shane – this is an article I wrote and submitted to several sailing magazines to see if they would be interested in publishing it. Of course, my readers do not…
This is a question you will ask a lot in the eight countries that use the East Caribbean dollar (EC$). All eight of these countries are former British territories, except…
As many of you know, you don’t really get any exciting moments while sailing other than seeing other boats and if you`re luckily some dolphins might come to say hi….
After silent, calm and peaceful Barbuda, Antigua is more like a city. Still there are only a few people around especially during the day time, in the night time due…
I hope you read yesterday’s blog about this amazing World Heritage Site. Well today’s photo of the day features the newest building in the dockyard, but that still makes it…
As you read in the last blog, we finally got the port engine working again and Melek and I wanted to see a little bit of Antigua before we needed…
Yesterday I wrote about the engine trouble we had and what all was need to be done to get it to run again. Now that it is fixed it is…
Melek and I wanted to see Barbuda as part of our cruise around the Leeward Islands in the Caribbean and instead of sailing to Antigua and then up to Barbuda…
Today is our last blog about our week in Barbuda and I want to spend it telling you about our last anchorage on the southern coast. Gravenor Bay stretches from…
Melek chose today’s photo of the day because she says “how cute” everytime she sees these guys. We saw them everywhere, but I believe these two were at the Corington…
On Tuesday I gave you directions to two different caves and the Codrington plantation house. I also told you to come back and I would give you directions to the…
Today’s photo of the day is the view from the top of the cliff I promised you yesterday. Do you remember reading how we climbed through a cave from the…
Last Thursday Melek told you about our adventure of biking across the island of Barbuda to see some caves and the windward side beach. Today I want to give you…
If you come back tomorrow I will tell you how to get to the cave featured in today’s photo of the day. In fact there will be two caves and…
On Thursday I told you about our first day in Barbuda and the adventure we had! Today I will continue with the second half of that day as after a…
Today’s photo of the day is a sample of our tour through the frigate bird colony in Barbuda. It is the largest colony in the entire Caribbean. Melek will write…
Today’s photo of the day is 11 Mile Beach on Barbuda. This is on the northwest side of the island at Low Bay. It is the best place to visit…
Our second stop on our cruise through the Leeward Islands was Barbuda. Actually it is his third and my second one, if you want to know why I say that…
