Background: Arawak Indians inhabited the islands when Christopher Columbus first set foot in the New World on San Salvador in 1492. British settlement of the islands began in 1647; the islands became a colony in 1783. Since attaining independence from the UK in 1973, The Bahamas have prospered through tourism and international banking and investment management. Because of its geography, the country is a major transshipment point for illegal drugs, particularly shipments to the US, and its territory is used for smuggling illegal migrants into the US.
May 3rd 2008Central America Caribbean » Bahamas » Nassau For the most part, the port adventures we’ve gotten up to this week have been things that Mel said she wanted to do. For Nassau, our last port day, it was Brad’s choice and he wanted to g ... 16 photos[full story]
May 3rd 2008Central America Caribbean » Bahamas » Abaco Today was so much fun. All of us went to Winding Harbor, and enjoyed ourselves with the blue floaties, played beach tennis, and Susie, Cheston and I all tried out paddle boarding. Pictures to illust ... 10 photos[full story]
May 2nd 2008Central America Caribbean » Bahamas » Abaco Recap on our trip out here:
Was supposed to leave LA at 11 pm, but because of 11 drunken men on the plane, and a crowd of security, a yelling stewardess and pulling the airplane all the way back to ... 8 photos[full story]
May 2nd 2008Central America Caribbean » Bahamas » Abaco No, seriously, these are real life pictures. I thought I was looking at a Corona commercial, with the deserted white sand beach, the soft lulling song of the waves strumming against the shore, and th ... 6 photos[full story]
May 1st 2008Central America Caribbean » Bahamas » Abaco “The Trip Home”
After completing repairs to our starboard saildrive, we decided to revisit some of our favorite Abaco Islands. We had several reasons for this. Some of our friends fr ... 15 photos[full story]
April 13th 2008Central America Caribbean » Bahamas » South Eleuthera » Deep Creek I had the most amazing week. First and foremost, I used my passport for the first time ever! Pretty spectacular. I had a job interview at the for the whole week of April 13th to April 19th and it was ... 41 photos[full story]
April 21st 2008Central America Caribbean » Bahamas » Abaco Marsh Harbor - Mercredi le 16 avril
Ils ont prédit des vents de 25 à 30 nœuds pour les prochains jours, mais nous avons plutôt eu des vents de 35 nœuds avec rafale à 42 nœuds. Ouf ... 14 photos[full story]
April 8th 2008Central America Caribbean » Bahamas » Abaco “Adventures at the Top of the Bahamas”
The Abacos are the northern most group of islands in the Bahamas. The central anchorage is Marsh Harbor, which is a big city by out island standa ... 15 photos[full story]
April 4th 2008Central America Caribbean » Bahamas » Nassau I was only in Boston for a day before I took off for the Bahamas. The weather in Prague had been pretty nice, but the weather in Nassau was amazing! It was in the high 70's and low 80's the whole time ... 5 photos[full story]
April 4th 2008Central America Caribbean » Bahamas » Nassau » Bahamas My last posting from the Jamaican cyber café, in 3 parts…
YESTERDAY AFTERNOON
Acephale, acephalos, akephalos, akephale... akefalh, -fali... you name it, yesterday we went through all the co ... 6 photos[full story]
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