When we set out on our Great Loop trip we kept ourselves open to living in another place other than Portland, OR. Several friends and fellow boaters hinted that we might enjoy Michigan. When we boated through Michigan we were not disappointed. When we did inland road trips through Michigan we were not disappointed. To […]

With our landfall back in Florida we are officially calling it an end to our Great Loop trip. We completed 1 1/2 Loops with several side trips and shattered our goal for learning about and seeing more of our country. As an added bonus we met wonderful people along the way in the towns we

We finally got a weather window to be able to head out of Spanish Wells and were ecstatic. That meant that we would be able to take a few days and make it over to Florida. Little did we know that in those few days the Corona virus would be wreaking it’s havoc in the

   I'd usually start with mentioning now many nights we spent at a stop but this stop in Spanish Wells keeps ticking forward. At the moment we are at 16 nights. Ideally 3 nights would have been enough as we stopped here last year and there are so many other places we have also wanted

   We left the islands in the Exuma chain and headed 53 miles east to Eleuthera when the weather allowed us to move. Eleuthera is a long skinny island – approx 180 miles long and in some places less than 1 mile wide.  NASA image of Eleuthera, showing just how long and skinny it is. 

  We have spent the last couple of weeks bouncing around the central portion of the Exuma chain. We decided this year not to go as far south as Georgetown as we liked the central and northern islands better.  Below is where we have been as of late –  Highborne to Hawksbill (Land & Sea

   We left Cambridge Cay with Hemisphere and headed just over 20 miles south to Blackpoint where we stayed for 2 nights. Blackpoint is a friendly village that offers some hard to find amenities to cruisers. For example the laundromat and disposing of 2 weeks worth of trash were our first two stops. Laundromats are

  We left Bimini with the intent of going straight through to the N Exumas / Wardrick Wells. Long story short it turn out the seas were a bit more rolly than we had anticipated so we stopped for the night on the Great Bahama Banks. It is a bit weird to be anchored in

  We spent over a week at Bimini Sands Marina. There are not really any good anchoring spots for the wind strength/direction we had so we were thankful for their steal of a weekly docking rate of $150. Interestingly the add on electrical rate was $30/day – that would be a big NO thank you.

  After Dane & Steph left we focused on getting ready for the Bahamas. This meant –  Completing several things on our boat to do list. I will not bore you with the details but it involved mostly cleaning and maintenance items.  Stocking the boat with as much food (and beer/wine) as we could. Prices