Blogs from Exuma, Bahamas, Central America Caribbean - page 3

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. ~Mark Twain With the swell gently lapping the hull of the ship, a sky full of stars overhead, and fresh fish in my belly, I could almost forget that I was at work. In the middle of June this year, I had the amazing opportunity to be part of an instructor team on a keel-boat sailing course in the Bahamas, and I loved every minute of it. I've mentioned that I'm going to spend some bits of my posts highlighting the organizations and individuals for whom I've worked, and that is precisely ... read more

Woke up today and had some breakfast. Around 11am, we got a ride from Keith to the dock in Georgetown. We only had about a 10 minute wait until the water taxi departed for Stocking Island. The boat ride was about 5 to 7 minutes through a channel of beautiful aqua blue water. The round trip fare for the water taxi is $12 per person. When we arrived, the man asked us when we would like to return and we told him 4pm. We immediately went into the water for some snorkeling. We were at Chat 'N' Chill, which is a little beachfront bar and grill. The water was choppy today and the beach here had a real steep drop off so it was not that exciting. Went out and got some food after an hour ... read more

For our summer trip, we wanted to go to Europe again. We could to most destinations without any problems on stand-by. However, the return flights were all bad for stand-by travel. We looked at maybe going back to Sint Maarten but I kind of wanted to go somewhere new. We also looked at going to Quito. I was looking at our route map and saw Exuma. I looked into Exuma and everything seemed to fall into place so we went for it. We flew from Indianapolis to Atlanta the morning of July 24 on Delta 960, which was a DC-9-50 aircraft. There were two open seats in first class so I let my wife and daughter sit up there while I took coach seat 20F. Once in Atlanta, we had about a two hour wait so ... read more

ok ca fait un bay mais je n'avais pas de bon reseau internet depuis un bout. je vais faires plusieur blog d'ici les prochains jours. Nous sommes rendu en jamaique et nous avons passe par Cuba donc beaucoup de photos a montrer et de chause a raconter. Voici le dernier segment des Bahamas et nos visiteurs. Pour commence j'aimerais vous remercier d'etre en aussi grand nombre a nous lire et a nous regarder. Vous etes une cinquantaine inscrit plus les non inscrit. Vous pouvez ecrire vos comantaires sur le blog mais c'est pas evident. Vous pouvez m'ecrire sur smaille27@yahoo.com Nous nous sommes rendu a Georgetown et avons retourné sur nos pas pour accueillir notre visite. Geneviève ma cousine et Martin que nous avons voyagé de Staniel Cay a Nassau. Ensuite les deux Soeurs Lynda et Shirley, ... read more

So Janice and I are in Lorraine's Internet café at Black Point. Janice is working on e-mail in the room next to the Café and I am in the café reading my book and watching CNN. It's late in the day and the café is starting to fill up with people coming in for dinner. Lorraine is not what one would call a gourmet cook but what she makes she does well, primarily deep fried or hamburgers. In fact she is responsible for Bob swearing off deep-fried conch and fries (a result of overindulgence). But I digress; I am sitting quietly one ear to the reports on CNN of the Japanese earthquake and the other to the variety of discussions going on at the tables waiting for dinner. Then I hear a voice, a very familiar ... read more