Category Archives: Places

Last from Iles des Saintes

Posted on January 9, 2023 by Bill Kinney

In our travels we have gotten several steps ahead of our posts, so I hope you can forgive a couple quick posts to catch up. Here are just a few more photos and historical commentary from the Iles des Saintes. … Continue reading →

A New Place

Posted on December 28, 2022 by Bill Kinney

We are tied up in the bay of Terre-de-Haut, an island part of the Iles des Saintes group that is just south of, and part of, Guadeloupe, which is in turn an overseas department of France. Our trip up from … Continue reading →

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Time to Move On

Posted on October 31, 2022 by Bill Kinney

Our time here on Grenada is coming to a close. It has been truly a delightful place to visit. To all of our friends who recommended this as a place to spend “hurricane season,” thank you very much. It is … Continue reading →

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Food and Farms on Grenada

Posted on October 18, 2022 by Bill Kinney

Food in Grenada There is a lot to learn about food here in Grenada from one exchange Karen had in the grocery store. She commented that it had been days since they had any ginger root at all. The local … Continue reading →

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And Back Again…

Posted on September 13, 2022 by Bill Kinney

We have arrived back in Grenada. The primary reason for our side trip to Barbados was to get my (Bill’s) passport renewed at the US Embassy there. Although there is an embassy in Grenada, it seems to carry minimal staffing … Continue reading →

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Docking With the Big Boys

Posted on September 7, 2022 by Bill Kinney

Barbados is the most densely populated of any island in the eastern Caribbean, but for cruising sailors it is distinctly off the beaten path. There are two major reasons for that. First is that it is literally 100 miles off … Continue reading →

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And your duty is…

Posted on August 26, 2022 by Bill Kinney

As we navigate the oceans of the world, we sometime find that it is more complex navigating the local officialdom than the high seas. In the case of Grenada, we have pretty much worked out what we need to do … Continue reading →

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Enough of this Goofing Off…

Posted on April 12, 2022 by Bill Kinney

Time to get to work. The next destination for us is a place we have been before, the island of Culibra. Politically, it is part of Puerto Rico (and hence, the USA), geographically it is one of the “Spanish Virgin … Continue reading →

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Rock Sound, Eleuthera, Bahamas

Posted on March 22, 2022 by Bill Kinney

Rock Sound near the southern end of the long island of Eleuthera is actually looking up these days. In the Bahamas there seems to be a rule that you never actually remove an old building, you just abandon its and … Continue reading →

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More Interesting Bits from the Out Islands.

Posted on July 1, 2021 by Bill Kinney

The people we met on West Plana who were there making their living harvesting cascarilla bark had a lot of interesting things to teach us. These are the kinds of people you only meet if you travel the way we … Continue reading →

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