Travel

We’re back from our odd-year vacation with George and Cathy (and Alex and Lucy). We got to sail out of a new Moorings base in Canouan, St.Vincent and the Grenadines. Aside from raining half the time, luggage getting lost, boat having to be replaced, storms at sea, and finally, stolen camera, we still had a great time! We went to some bays that we had visited before, and even met a boat-boy named Sydney Dallas, who we had first met in Tobago Cays in 1991. While he didn’t remember us, he was amazed and flattered that we still had the hand-painted tee shirts that we bought from him during that trip. Needless to say, there won’t be any pictures of this trip on the gallery. At the end of the trip, we tacked on 5 days in a little shore-front villa in Vequies, a small island south of Puerto Rico. This is a place that until a few years ago was used by the military as a bombing practice area. After tons of protests and years of cleanup by the US government, about 70% of the island has been declaired a nature reserve. They have miles of beaches, beautiful reefs, and some pretty cool back country. One of the most memorable experiences from the trip was a night-time swim in a small enclosed bay that is home to tiny bio-luminescent organisms. Every stoke brings a glow of green around your arms and fingers. Diving with a mask is like being in another world. Amazing.