Position: St Bruno PQ, The morning after a great birthday party, We (Mom, Dad, Nycole, Annie and myself) set off to the meet Louise & Andre Fluery, one of the great contributors of the Reseau du Capitaine ( An HF radio net that we speak to daily from onboard as to share with friends how everything is, our position while at sea and who kindly give us the marine forecast for the area we are in, a vital link to our well being.) With goodbyes and breakfast done we get back to finishing backing, With our 1989 super duty Chevy diesel [View Full Entry]

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Sunday, June 24th 2007 We Departed Grande Goave at 7am, to make the bumpy journey to the Port au Prince Airport, and arrivied around 9:am. We checked-in and cleared Haitian customs in a breeze. Our flight wasn’t scheduled to depart until 12:35, but we didn’t want to take any chances in arriving late. Go figure, everything went smoothly and we wound up sitting in the terminal waiting are with a solid 2 hour wait before boarding time... NOT! Wouldn’t you know it?!?!?! The flight coming in from Miami was delayed by 3 hours!!! So we waited some more... No problem, [View Full Entry]

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June 14th, 2007 Hello to everyone, We know we have been a little negligent in updating our blog and, for that, we apologize. It’s been a busy month and things are still brewing for us here. We are in final preparations for our return home and are, at this time, in the process of booking return flights to arrive between the 22nd and 25th of this month. We are filled with mixed emotions and are taking things one day at a time. We are both ecstatic about the thought of going home to our family and friends, whom we’ve missed [View Full Entry]

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Good morning too everyone, from Haiti With now over five months under our belt here in Haiti.., we are doing great and all is well with us. Our living experiences keep growing and we are learning so much during our time here. We have had so many touching moments here, from being invited to soccer matches and watching the game sitting on the ground surrounded by so many young children that it would be hard to count them all. So many of them asking how to spell our names and asking us to describe what it is like where we [View Full Entry]

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Kidney Stone In Haiti!! It all started out on Sunday April 29th. I was feeling great when I woke up. Got up early, enjoying the sun rising to my east, but this day was to take an eventful turn. At around 8am we took a short car ride to get some fuel and this is when things started to go down hill!! At first, it felt like a bad cramp, so I decided to return back on board to try to do my business, in the hopes that this would eliminate the mystery cramp!! Man was I wrong! As the [View Full Entry]

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Pestel, Haiti Waypoint 18º 32’.581 N 073º 47’.455 W “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do then by the ones you did. So throw off our dock lines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover” a quote from Mark Twain. Only now do we realize what we do on a daily bases, to be Living a True Adventure!!. From pulling into places you have never been before, and having your breath taken away by the beauty!! To being the only one you [View Full Entry]

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Roseaux, Haiti Waypoint 18º 36’.215N 074º 01’.165W On Saturday morning, we lifted anchor from Jérémie and headed back north for the journey back to Grande Goave. We were recommended to stop in a little village along the way named Roseaux. This quaint little village is located in the South along the Northern shore line between the city of Jérémie and Corail. During our short stop here on Saturday we took a 30 to 40 minute hike to see two sights of interest. The first one being this little cove that needs to be put on a post card!! And the [View Full Entry]

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Jérémie, Haiti. Waypoint 18º 38’.480N 074º 06’.574W “Some historical Snippets on Haiti” Taino Indians named the whole Island Haiti, meaning ‘Mountainous’. (The highest and lowest points in the Greater Antilles are found just miles apart near 71 degrees longitude - Pico Duarte at 10,417 feet and Lago Enriquillo at 130 feet below sea level). Columbus claimed Haiti for Spain during his first voyage of 1492 and named it Hispaniola. He lost his small flag ship the ’Santa Maria’ on the reefs at Caracol Bay soon after. In January 1492 he star [View Full Entry]

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Grande Anse, Haiti. Waypoint 18º 34’.414N 073º 39’.353W On Thursday, April 19th, we sailed back towards the south for a four day weekend of peace and new discovery. We spent the night on the shoreline of Bria, (who, by the way, are doing great). On Friday, we set sail, for a second time, to visit Grande Anse, a picturesque, palm tree covered, beach village which is located on the opposite shore from Bria. This is one of a few villages that takes great pride, which is shown by the cleanliness of the village and it’s surroundings. There is no trash [View Full Entry]

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Bria, Haiti (returning with needed gifts from Canada) Annie & I would like to start by sending out a warm thank you to all those who helped out this past February in donating all the incredibly needed items for the small village of Bria, Haiti. On April 14th 2007, after sailing in the night before, we had the incredible experience of personally distributing everything, face to face, to the villagers. Facing us was a sensitive challenge of trying to distribute all the articles we had in a fair manner, since we did not have enough of everything for everyone and [View Full Entry]

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