Daily Life
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Exiting to the Exumas
It took us longer to leave Nassau than we anticipated. This shouldn’t come as a surprise, because weather and boating problems tend to dictate our progress more than our own plans do. Fortunately, we did manage to leave, and the Exumas really have been a lot of fun to explore. Last Wednesday we were planning to leave Nassau and started the morning by doing a fuel run and run to the store to pick up some birthday presents for Norah, who is turning 7 this week! Unfortunately, the fuel dock was very slow and by the time we got back to Seasura and calculated the time it would take us…
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Seasura visits Atlantis
My mom arrived! We are so excited to have another person join us on a part of our journey. To make her welcome to our boat even more exciting, Kevin and I decided to treat the kids, and ourselves, to a few days at the Atlantis Marina. We dinghied into the marina back in June when we first passed through Nassau. It is full of yachts and the resort is manicured. It also has a large waterpark including aquariums, dolphin pools, waterslides and other wimming and kiddie pools. The waterpark is as expensive as a day in an amusement park, but luckily when you stay at the marina, you get…
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Dinghies in Nassau
Wind but, mostly just foul weather, blew through Marsh Harbour. We were able to explore the town a little, but because of hurricane Dorian’s destruction, there wasn’t a lot to see. During better weather there probably would have been nice beaches to visit but it was much too cold for this so, there was just the town. The town is very spread out and although they had a decent grocery store and ice cream place, these were situationed along rough roads with frequent building projects between and lots of fast moving cars with busy people. As a result of the limited things to see in Marsh Harbour, we decided to…
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Exploring the Abacos
New Years Day found us waking early to get out of West Palm Beach and over to the Bahamas in one day. We got up at 5:30am with the plan to go under the Flagler Memorial Bridge at 5:45am because it opens on every quarter after and quarter to the hour. It was still dark, but it was a large bay and easy to navigate with all the marker buoys. We were less certain about the Old Bahama Bay, where we were going to so, we wanted to arrive there in the light. Our departure however, was delayed because our briddle was twisted up in a piece of debris. In…
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Christmas and a count down to the new year, and a new destination
Happy New Year! We have had a busy week as usual (I don’t actualy think Kevin knows how not to book up our time solid). We arrived in West Palm Beach just in time for Christmas. Some of our fellow kid boats were already there and we quickly heard of a potluck dinner Christmas Eve on the dock with many of them. We were excited to see everyone after our time away, but first we had to pick up some gifts that we had delivered to Fort Lauderdale and some last minute gifts we hadn’t had the chance to get yet. So, we rented a car for the day and…
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Regrowing our sea legs
We are back on the boat! While our time on land was good, we are happy to be continuing on with our journey, and not just because we are heading to hotter weather. It was great catching up with family and friends (and for me patients too)! We had several nice dinners with family and walks with friends. I didn’t realize just how much I missed everyone. However, being away from the family for most of the time while I worked was really hard. They managed to do a lot of schoolwork and swimming while they were at Kevin’s parents house. I think that helped pass the time and I…
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A Visit Home
After we dropped Mommy off at the airport we got an uber back to the main old part of Charleston. We walked through the City market. There were lots of cool things but not the kind of things you want to keep on a boat such as nik-naks and random decorations. The only things we did get were a mug for Daddy and hats for Owen and him. After that we walked through the French Quarter to a place right on the water called White Point Garden. All the buildings in the French Quarter were from the 1700’s and the roads were made out of stone or brick. From there…
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Soaking up the weather before a trip home
We left Wrightsville Beach when the weather report suggested that we would be tailing behind the storm front that had rained us in for the last several days. We were promised 14 knot winds and clear skies. The good weather actually even blew in a few hours earlier than expected, but with the rain finally clear we decided to take the morning to see the actual beach at Wrightsville before leaving. The beach is a beautiful sandy beach with intermittent entrances between beach houses and long grass and cacti. It was very nice to walk along the beach. The waves were quite generous coming up on shore, reminding me of…
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Another week, another state or two closer to the Bahamas
It feels like we are back into the thick of cruising life. Not that we actually left it, but now we are out of the Chesapeake and visiting new places again. After we left Solomons we took two days, of motoring, to get ourselves to Norfolk, Virginia. Norfolk is an interesting city to sail into. It is home to the largest naval base in the world. We had previously stopped at Hampton, just across the inlet but sailing up the Elizabeth River is unique because you get to sail past an impressive array of naval ships, and they are very large! There were destroyers, aircraft carriers and other support ships.…
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Moving on from Maryland, because summer is over
This week has been a bit of a roller coaster. Nothing really too bad, but certainly there have been some ups and downs. We spent our last two days in St. Michael’s doing schoolwork in the morning and then going to shore in the evening to get the kids moving. One day, we scootered (and I ran) over to the elementary school and another evening we played tag at the playground. Tag is a more difficult game when you play with teenagers, especially those that have longer legs than you. Saturday the wind finally settled down in the bay and we headed out for Solomons. It was an uneventful motor…
