The second longest barrier reef in the world extends from Cancun south along the east coast of Mexico and Belize to almost Guatemala. We are sailing south along the outside or Caribbean Sea part of the reef. To stop or anchor in a bay, we have to pass through an opening in the reef. Most […]
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Cameron the Rigger
We needed some work done on our mast. The choice was to haul me (195 lbs) up or one of the kids. Cameron (80 lbs) volunteered. Here he is more than 2/3’s of the way up the mast (55 feet or so).
Mayan Redux
With some time on our hands while waiting on the weather to improve a bit, we visited some more Mayan sites, Coba and Tulum. Coba is about 30 miles inland from the Caribbean coast and is the largest pre-Hispanic site in the Yucatan. The Coba site consists of 4 separate groups of buildings (Coba group, […]
School Daze
Boat school occurs most days when we are not sailing or seeing the sights. It usually last about 4 hours and the subjects consist of math, English, and introductory Spanish. They are taking 7th grade math and English. Some days are better than others. Cameron, Haley, and Travis also read much more on the boat […]
Saving Money the Hard Way
Cameron, Haley, and Travis saw an advertisement for a water park in a natural inlet on the coast near the town of Tulum, called Xel-Ha. While walking through town, we saw a tour business offering tickets to Xel-Ha so we stopped in to ask about prices. The retail price was about $300 plus the cost […]
Apocalypto
The Mayans ruled the Yucatan (and Guatemala and Honduras) for more than a 1000 years. Literally hundreds of Mayan sites are scattered around the area from the very small temple at Punta Sur on Isla Mujeres to the large Mayan cities at Chichen Itza, Uxmal, and Tikal. The Mayans were very advanced, including a written […]
Rainy Isla Mujeres
Well, about the time we were ready to depart, El Nino started impacting winter weather conditions in the southeast U.S. and the Gulf of Mexico, including the first ice storm in 10 years. So our departure and Gulf crossing was delayed a couple of weeks, but we finally thought we saw a reasonable weather window […]
Happy New Year
Happy New Year 2007. Cameron, Haley, and Travis have just finished the first semester of sixth grade, which is the first year of middle school. We have decided to take off cruising again heading first to Mexico and then on to Central America.
Heading north
We sailed back to Bequia from Union Island to pick up Austin Espey, a friend of Travis and Cameron, who flew down for Spring Break. The day after he arrived we took the ferry from Bequia over to St. Vincent and drove up to the north end of St. Vincent and then hiked up to […]
Into the Windwards
The weather finally improved and we left the anchorage off the town of Anse Grande on the east side of the island of Terre-de-Bas and headed south for the island and country of Dominica. We anchored in Prince Rupert Bay off of the town of Portsmouth. Dominica is a very different place than the French countries where […]
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