We left Great Exuma on January 18th for Staniel Cay. We met friends who were already anchored there. It ended up being one of the highlights of our trip.

Thunderball Grotto was amazing. The entrance to the cave is underwater unless you go at low tide. We timed it… Read full post »

Photos from Little Bay, Just off Black Point Settlement

Great Guana Cay

Taken December 28, 2011

Black Point Settlement has no marina. They are a true Bahamian village. Not at all "touristy" but welcoming and friendly. We enjoyed our few days there, and made some new friends... 

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Left Bimini Dec. 19th  and slogged across the Great Bahama Bank. It was strange to be in consistent 12' water when you draw 6'. Seas were 3' - 4' and wind 15 - 20 knots from the east. We decided to anchor near the North West Shoal, where it was shallow.… Read full post »

Because the blogs won’t load. Because I have tried to rate Myriad and James Mark countless times in the last while, and the rates do not stick. Because comments do not stick, either.

You know, there is this really cool cat, Tinkertink69 on this site who could probably deal with… Read full post »

I laughed out loud at this comment. It was written after a post very early on during OWS after a police officer pepper sprayed a peaceful protester in NYC.  There was a comparison to the treatment received by the Tea Party demonstrators who received a free pass for their… Read full post »

When did torture become a good thing? Why would Republican presidential candidates embrace the use of torture to win voter support?

Only two of the Republican primary contenders, Ron Paul and Jon Huntsman, spoke out against waterboarding and named it torture.  Only two of eight.

Wa… Read full post »

Remeber "The Beer Summit", when President Obama invited Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and police Sergant James Crowley to the Rose Garden to try to defuse a war of words over race that had caused a national uproar?

President Obama called it, "a teachable moment" on improving relations betw… Read full post »

 Responding to a question regarding so called “Class Warfare” Elizabeth Warren had this to say,

“You built a factory out there? Good for you. But I want to be clear: you moved your goods to market on the roads the rest of us paid for;… Read full post »

When the Tea Party rallies were first in the news my friends and I immediately dismissed the participants as a bunch of paranoid racists who believed that President Obama was a Muslim (the devil!) with a grand plan to destroy the county from within.  Probably because that’s what they said/… Read full post »

It is so very difficult for me to feel badly that Mitt Romney is being beat up because of his religious affiliation.  More than difficult. Impossible.

There are many voters out there who genuinely believe that they have to affiliate Republican because of their church's  (inappropriate) af… Read full post »