Tomorrow I am going to write all about the tiny island off Carriacou called Sandy Island. This little sandbar offered so much more than we expected and we spent the…
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I love travel!!! Regardless if it is sailing the Guiding Light to new islands or grabbing a backpack and flying somewhere. The thing I like almost as much is sharing travel experiences. With that said, welcome to my cruising & travel blog where you will find information and entertainment in written, verbal, photo, and video form. Make comments and join the discussion. 🙂
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On the hills high above Hillsborough on Carriacou Island in the Grenadines there is a hundred year old hospital and it has two cannons at the view point. From here…
On Sunday I left you at Petite Martinique where we had just entered Grenadian water after sailing a whole half mile from Petite St Vincent. In that blog I talked…
I will be writing about Hillborough later this week with all the sights we saw and how wonderful the little town was, but today I want to focus on one…
At the southern end of the Grenadines there are two tiny islands that are separated by half a mile physically and a world apart in spirit. Both islands are protected…
I was sitting on a beach on Carriacou Island after checking into the country of Grenada and saw this local fisherman heading out to fish. I thought it was a…
Looking at the Union Island reef that protects the Clifton Harbor you would not think much of snorkeling it because it is too shallow, but you would be wrong. Newlands…
Well….actually we enjoyed the well. Haha see what I did there? Today’s photo of the day is of a well. 🙂 In all seriousness Sparrow’s Beach Resort was a fantastic…
Steve and I had the best of intentions of walking north out of Clifton and looping around to Ashton and then up to the top of The Pinnacle. Then we…
Tomorrow I am going to tell you how Steve and I had all kinds of intentions to hike all the way around Union Island. There was just two thing stopping…
If you are in Clifton on Union Island in the Grenadines and you walk west out of town you will come to a causeway connecting Frigate Island and Union Island….
Frigate Island is a little island full of birds and other animals that sits off of the southern coast of Union Island in the Grenadines. It is now connected to…
When we pulled into Clifton Harbor from the Tobago Cays we had to round the reef off Union Island and at the end of it was Happy Island. This is…
Palm Island is a small island one mile from Union Island and within its 135 acres it has five beaches. You can only get here by boat and you are…
The only bad part about the town of Clifton on Union Island is the harbor is either too shallow or too deep to anchor. It sits behind a reef that…
Yesterday I told you all about the Tobago Cays and how they are protected by the World’s End Reef. I also told you that you can go between the reef…
The Tobago Cays are the crown jewel of the Grenadines and in my opinion the entire Caribbean. My description of the Grenadines is that they are a tiny Virgin Islands….
Petit Bateau Cay is in the Tobago Cays and on this little locals put together some amazing beach BBQs for charter and cruising boats. They have even built a community…
I make a big deal that Salt Whistle Resort on Mayeau is open, because we thought it was shuttered years ago. Our cruising guide said Salt Whistle Resort on the…
Last week I told you how Canouan was a nice island, but not really our favorite place. Well, we left there and sailed five miles to Mayreau and found paradise….
Today the blogs are moving from Canouan to Mayreau in the Grenadines and today’s photo of the day seems as close to perfection in the islands as I have found in…
After a pretty walk up the hill Shane and I reached a point of no entry to pursue our visit to the fort clearly marked on our map….well, we could…
Today’s ‘photo of the day” is the perfect way to end our time on Canouan in the Grenadines…..especially after Steveand I were attacked just minutes before. Come back tomorrow and…
Canouan is a lovely island, but it was not my favorite in the Grenadines, because almost half the island is off limits. The island is shaped like a fish hook…
Today’s photo of the day is a great sunset we watched from a resturant called Mac’s on the Belmont Walkway in the middle of Bequia in the Grenadines. We loved…
I know I have been writing a lot of blogs about Bequia in The Grenadines, but we had so much fun on this island and there are so many adventures…
Well I have good news for you. The Old Fort on Bequia has been turned into a fantastic little resort. I will write all about it in two days and…
The locals are one of the few groups exempt from the world-wide ban on whale hunting. They are allowed to take up to four whales a year, but there are…
I saw this wind indicator at the Old Fort on Bequia, which I will tell you all about on Sunday. I just loved how it had a a ship on…
On Sunday I wrote about our time at the Old Hegg Turtle Sanctuary on Bequia. Well as we were walking back to town (about two miles) we came across the…