Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been tagged as “cruising”
We get asked by both friends or family at home and also people we meet here what we are doing about schooling on this trip. When I cruised in the ‘90s, I completed grades 9 and 11 on the boat and followed a very prescribed curriculum through our Ministry of Education. Our kids are much younger (our oldest is in grade 2) and therefore …
A mini-blog by Paul So we figured we might be in for a rough night, but what we got was pretty crazy. The winds were predicted to blow out of the South and then clock around through the West, which is not great for where we are because there is no protection from the West. But the winds were predicted …
Our first stop after leaving Georgetown was Lee Stocking Island, about 30 miles north. It was an uneventful mostly motor sail, until we landed a mahi mahi on our handline. This was our first time fishing with the handline and we were really excited to have caught something. As Paul started pulling it in, we could see that it was a green fish and …
One of our goals for this trip was to slow down and spend lots of quality family time together. There is no doubt that we have achieved both of those goals. We rarely know what we will be doing the next day and our plans revolve around flexibility. For Paul and I, both being Type A personalities, this can be a challenge as …
You have heard me mention Georgetown a lot in this blog. We spent the first 5 weeks of this trip here and this place has a long and dear history for me. We are getting ready to leave Georgetown and island hop our way north through the Exumas and I really don’t know when we will visit again. Georgetown was a constant for me through …
We had been in Georgetown for over a month and were ready to head out and explore. Georgetown was really comfortable – it is a place I know well, has everything you really need and lots of activities to keep the kids and adults busy. But we had come on this trip to explore and we wanted to get out …
