Turtle tracks? Hmmm... I said as we rounded into the lee of the northern rocky extremety of Culebrita. Only one vessel appeared on AIS, showing its triangular green icon, unmoving, apparently at anchor in Bahia de Tortuga. A good sign, perhaps there’s no crowd. But once the little cove opened to view, at least ten …
Category: Places
Bahamian Rendezvous
As read in a prior post about the beautiful Ragged Islands, we have found more than a few fantastic islands in the incredibly clear but shallow Bahamian waters. But wait… there’s more! Tropical Conch Salad, made fresh at beachside, Stocking Island, Exumas. We (too soon) departed the Raggeds bound for Thompson Bay, via the Comber …
Daring Dive Day
Kelly and I caught a bug - a really strong one too. No, not the viral kind. We seem to be possessed by a dark closed-cell foam rubber force, fed by a 3,000 psi tank of air. Since achieving our “Open-Water" scuba certification we just can't get enough here in the warm and clean Caribbean …
Taste of Ragged Beauty
Fayaway’s course from Puerto Rico to The Ragged Islands. We do not associate the idea of antiquity with the ocean, nor wonder how it looked a thousand years ago, as we do of the land, for it was equally wild and unfathomable always. Henry David Thoreau We “cleared out” of Puerto Real on a Wednesday …
Surrealism in SVI’s
Aahhh, the Spanish Virgins. Culebrita, aka Little Snake (Spanish), more an islet of Culebra, is a pleasant uninhabited outpost with beautiful beaches we last visited in early 2020. Swarming with little hermit crabs (where do they get their shells?) and literally capped off with an historic (1880’s) lighthouse relic, Culebrita is a can’t miss first-stop …
