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Written Dec. 15, 2015 St. David’s Bay, Grenada Marine It’s one of those days when everything accidentally comes together. Some all our favourite sailor friends have suddenly congregated in this little, remote bay, and it feels like a reunion. Ben and Philippa from Dhanu moved their boat around from Prickley […]

Happy Accidents

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Written Nov 29, 2015 Grenada Marine, St David’s, Grenada We’re back. It’s only been 3 months, but it feels like it was a lifetime ago when we packed Cedar up for hurricane season and headed back to Toronto. Land was good. Blake wrote his exams. Moss had his hip surgery. […]

Season 2 – Welcome Back

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August 8, Grenada Marine, St. David’s Bay, Grenada It’s a sad day. We have hauled Cedar out of the water, and are now on the hard at Grenada Marine. Yes, we found it. The boatyard is furthest southeastern marina on the island; if we went any further we’d be in […]

Moss is Sad

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August 2, St. George’s, Grenada We saw the Green Flash! We be real sailors now, boy-o. The Green Flash, for you land lubbers, is the brief arc of green light that comes up over the horizon the second after the sun drops behind it. And yes, it is green. We […]

The Green Flash

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  August 1, St. Georges, Grenada We made it! We reached mainland Grenada. We sailed down the island chain and reached our destination. This is big for us newbies! It was a very pleasant day sail from Cariacou to Grenada. Of course we set out at 9:55 a.m., five whole […]

Terminus Grenada!

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July 29, Soufrière, St. Lucia Ahhhh. An hour’s chill out before we leave St. Lucia on a night sail to Cariacou, Grenada. Tonight we sleep little. Somehow we’ve been here for 10 days. St. Lucia has been naturally beautiful — with tall green mountains jetting out of clear, dark blue […]

Leaving St. Lucia

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July 25, Soufrière, St Lucia. The poverty seems to increase the farther south you go in the Caribbean. And the independent islands seem to fare a bit worse economically than the ones benefitting from European tax payers.   From an outsider’s perspective, Guadeloupe and Martinique, two French islands, appear to […]

Soufrière, St. Lucia

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July 24, Anse Cochon, St. Lucia. Infrastructure is something I find myself looking for these days. Are towns and villages connected? Are people able to have a decent home and get to work? Does work provide enough income to support the household? From Rodney Bay to Marigot, to Anse Cochon, […]

Anse Cochon, St Lucia

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