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19 March 2025, Wednesday, Les Anse-d’Arlet, Martinique
We are really rocking tho it is not a particularly windy day and there is no Internet here so we decide to cruise around the corner to Grand Anse. I have work to do and a meeting in the afternoon. It’s very short motor and in no time we’re anchored again. No cell signal. Sigh.…
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Christmas 2023 – Huntsville
The leadup to Christmas is very Christmassy with lots of cold and November snow. Luckily we have tons of wood although not all is perfectly dry. I cut down another dead black spruce and a large poplar over by Juergen’s (it wasn’t as dead as I thought it was but there is a ton of…
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Spring of 2023 to Christmas 2023 – Toronto to Huntsville
It has been an interesting 10 months since our last true adventure. What has happened could be categorized as adventurous by some I suppose and for us there were plenty of thrills, spills, uphills and downhills. First, after Ben tells us in the spring of 2023 he plans to live on on his own the…
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Mar 19 – April 16, 2023 Huntsville
The next week or so was fascinating to witness the avian attack on the dead deer. The first day was quiet but then the crows (ravens?) found it. I’m afraid I can’t really discern the difference between crows and ravens – I heard that crows migrate and ravens don’t but that doesn’t seem to be…
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Mar 16 – 28, 2023 – Huntsville
Just living the life here as the weather starts to warm up. This taken a day after our return from the sunny south. Sunny here too! Then one afternoon, 5ish, day I’m looking at the trees behind the cabana, checking for likely firewood candidates. I see a bump on a tree. What the heck is…
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Mar 16, 2023 – Ben’s Birthday
Called Ben today and had a nice conversation tho he is busy with final year-end school projects. He’s going to be finished 3rd Mech Eng around the 25th of April and then will take bartender training at The Beach Club for his summer job. Not exactly engineering but pays well I hope. Lately he has:…
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Mar 14, 2023 – Bequia to Toronto via St. Vincent
Well this is it. Saying goodbye to St. Vincent and the Grenadines today after nearly 3 weeks. Lucked out when Christy paid the rest of our hotel bill – they told us today is a National Holiday (Hero’s Day) and the ferry only runs at 6:30 am! We would have had to hire a speed…
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Mar 13, 2023 – Bequia
Ho hum, another perfect day in SVG. Tiresome really. We had ideas of going to do another walk/explore to the north side of the island but gradually those fade away as we read, work, relax. In the afternoon we decide to hire Thaddeus the cab driver to take us out there. I have a 3:00…
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Mar 12, 2023 – Bequia
I shaved. I have wanted to do it for ages but the clincher came when Audrey said it aged me. Don’t need any help with that. To give you an idea of how weak and scraggly it was, Christy didn’t even notice for a few hours. Sunny again today. Yesterday was (so far) the first…
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Mar 11, 2023 – Bequia
We’ve decided to climb Mt. Peggy today, or Ma Peggy as it is known. Officially it is Mt. Diamond on the map just under 900 feet. It looks higher than Mt. Taboi on Union but ain’t – Union has it by 100 feet. Maybe it just seems bigger since we have to walk all the…