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Epic Exuma Exploring
19th April 2026 | Odometer: 2023nm | Bahamas Waking early to traverse the two cuts in the passage ahead, we headed north to Prime Cay. This bay was renowned for people grounding their boats when trying to come in on the wrong tide. We first had to navigate through the shallows in the back of…
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Great Exuma and the Great Exumas!
17th April 2026 | Odometer: 2007nm | Bahamas After waiting out the wind for a week in Thompson Bay, it was finally time to head north up the island chain to Great Exuma! Rusty enjoyed first-class passenger treatment while Ryan and I pulled up the anchor and got us underway. With a beautiful calm start…
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Killing Time in Thompson Bay
15th April 2026 | Odometer: 1939nm | Bahamas Dad had arrived right at the start of some extremely high winds. Thankfully, we were tucked in close and nice and protected in Thompson Bay, with strong easterly winds blowing over us. Even though the anchorage was well protected, there were white caps all around us, and…
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Rusty Arrives!
11th April 2026 | Odometer: 1939nm | Bahamas After what felt like months of waiting, my dad, Rusty, finally was going to arrive! We headed off to pick up the rental car, then drove up Long Island about a half hour to get to the Stella Maris Airport. We were a little early so we…
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Trekking to Thompson Bay
10th April 2026 | Odometer: 1939nm | Bahamas Gordon’s Settlement at the bottom of Long Island was such a beautiful spot, but we knew we had to get to Thompson Bay about half way up the island so that we could get a rental car and pick up my dad from the airport on the…
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We are in Austin this weekend!
So, sneak preview, we sold the boat in a whirlwind 24hrs and are heading back to Australia! We really wanted to swing by and see our friends in Austin on the way! We are planning on being at Cosmic Saltillo on Saturday from 11am for a lazy day chilling out and hoping to catch up…
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Parts, a Plan and a Passage!
7th April 2026 | Odometer: 1860nm | Bahamas We were getting to the crunchy end of when we really needed these parts by! Dad would be flying into Nassau on the 9th April, we had been waiting and checking flight availability daily, to keep our options open in the hopes the parts would come on…
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Becoming Bahamian
Inagua Life Inagua is a largish island at the bottom of the Bahamas chain, with a small population of approximately 800 people. Tourists generally don’t make it that far south and the island doesn’t have any hotels at all; couple this with the sparse flights and it feels very remote indeed. The main source of…
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Purgatory in Paradise
Inagua Life Waiting in Inagua Town Dock was an exercise in mental fortitude. We had identified the parts that needed replacing and now we just had to figure out how to get them to the island… a process that turned out to be much more difficult than anticipated. Somehow, a strange time dilation effect applies…
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A Huge Setback
14th March 2026 | Odometer: 1706nm | Bahamas Waiting for weather in Man of War bay at Great Inagua island had been a wonderfully relaxing experience. Even so, we were excited to be making the 12 hour crossing to Acklin island on the 13th once the winds abated, and to continue exploring northwards through the…
Our Grand Adventure
A year going slow in the Caribbean
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