http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Netherlands-Antilles/Saba/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Central America Caribbean , Netherlands Antilles , Saba en-us Thu, 21 Aug 2008 09:10:42 BST Thu, 21 Aug 2008 09:10:42 BST Following New Year's Eve a series of events led to our final breakup and Joachim's departure from Saba in late January without Nina. Although many of you know of the details I Joachim thought it would be good to make a entry in the blog to update everyone on this. I will look back fondly on the adventure of 2007 and the days I spent pretty much every hour with Nina at work or at play. 2008 http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Netherlands-Antilles/Saba/blog-260685.html Happy holidays everybody Hope you all are having some nice relaxing days with some good fun as well. Celebrating the holiday season here on Saba is a nice warm experience. Veronika a friend visiting from Norway came down just a few days before Christmas we had the privilege of having Pinnekjott and Aquavit for dinner on Christmas eve. Living away from Norway this is a real treat so loads of tha http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Netherlands-Antilles/Saba/blog-230321.html Dear friendsLast message I wrote you that Merlijn was coming to visit me. It all happened quite quickly and before I knew it I was on my way to the airport to pick her up. Very strange to meet with someone that you havenrsquot seen for over a year on Statia.But things were back to normal pretty soon and we spend a lot of time cooking and eating nice meals especially because I just took back so http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Netherlands-Antilles/Saba/blog-224814.html I've been on Saba now for a while and there are a lot of things I still have to do and see before I leave. I've already hiked some of the smaller trails including Spring Bay Sulfur Mines Crispeen and the Ladder. But one trail that has been on my list for a while was Mt. Scenery. You can't come to Saba without hiking it it's like eating cereal without milk or celebrating the 4th of July witho http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Netherlands-Antilles/Saba/blog-224315.html Saba... I used to live on that tiny little rock in the Caribbean between March 2006 and May 2007 when working for Saba Divers and Scouts Place in their office...managing peoples holiday...and fell in love with it.People are friendly and after a month or so Ive been part of the community. They used to call me the Saba Newspaper as they got all the gossip live and fresh from the front office along http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Netherlands-Antilles/Saba/blog-217960.html Diving We guide and point out stuff underwater and sometimes we can take our camera with us too. We are very happy with the diving here but need to get some warmer wet suits as we tend to get cold in the end of our dives... and it is 29 celciusWe meet for dinners often. Not too long ago we had a curry night As Dai's leaving doo we had about 12 people over for curry. We were planning to have it http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Netherlands-Antilles/Saba/blog-213798.html Last week we had our first lobster dinner her on the rock and it was FANTASTIC First and foremost we have to thank Lobster fisherman Michel for bringing the lobsters Second we have to talk about how to and what you need and how to go about this lobster dinner making thing. 1. Get a hold of some fresh lobsters For us this was easy since Michel asked us if we liked to make some lobsters at our pl http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Netherlands-Antilles/Saba/blog-213788.html Time flies and we are not getting around to writing blogs as often so letrsquos try to catch up Living at SabaLiving here in the Caribbean we have all doors and windows open and the other day a goat wandered into our living room.After taking a picture we tried to ldquoshhuueerdquo it out it did what goatrsquos does jumping and kicking its back legs Luckily it did not hit either laptop http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Netherlands-Antilles/Saba/blog-201660.html Blog Entry 17th of AugustHurricane Dean has now passed south of us and all we got was a bit of rain and wind as well as a few hours without electricity. Looking at the path and strength of Dean we pray for the people and hope damage will be a minimum.Blog Entry 16th of AugustDean should get up to Hurricane level 2 but the forecast is such that Dean should pass south of us so we should only ge http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Netherlands-Antilles/Saba/blog-192908.html It has already been over a week since we came down to this 13 square km island and things are going well The first week has been filled with getting to know the locals and the island carnival moving house... Workwise we have been diving and trying to learn everything about the dive boat as we are going to be skippers one day but we talk more about work stuff in another blog.To start from t http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Netherlands-Antilles/Saba/blog-190201.html Nos photos de SABAnbspCentral America Caribbean raquonbspSaba By MOANAJune 30th 2007France et GuyLes photos des deux jours que nous avons pass sur cette extraordinaire le impressionnantes souhaits http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Netherlands-Antilles/Saba/blog-175297.html Message reu de France en fin de journe mardiun petit message pour te rassurernous sommes partis de Saba ce matin parce qu'ils nous ont annonc du ENE en aprs midi et ce soir.actuellement 17h30 notre position 174560N par 630217Wvent de l'est 22 noeuds le plus haut enregistr a t 29.5 de l'estles vagues sont grosses et de l'est trs bien formesnous avons un cap de 152 degrs magntiqu http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Netherlands-Antilles/Saba/blog-173999.html This was my second trip to visit Sarah in St. Maarten in two months so I'm not posting too many St. Maarten pics. We did however fly to a couple of neighbouring islands so it was still a new experience. We flew to the French Island of St. Barts Saint Barthelemy for a day so that Sarah could reenter St. Maarten on her Dutch passport and save the school from paying for her work visa. The sch http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Netherlands-Antilles/Saba/blog-123164.html