Sailing Seasura

Turns out Georgetown is quite the hub for cruisers. We have come across several boats that spend several months here in Georgetown. Otherwise, it is full of cruisers that are traveling around the Bahamas and taking stopping here to take advantag of the shops. There are few more shops here than you will find in most of the smaller islands and cays. I say a few more shops, because there are still only a very few. When we first ‘landed’ in Georgetown it seemed that the island had invested very little into infrastructure. Downtown lacks sidewalks and the roads are spotted with potholes. But then, when we caught a cab…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…