Spring & Summer 2013

Off we go again. This time to do a second trip to the Pacific Northwest which we set out to do last year but was aborted due to unfortunate events. There must be something about us & the Northwest. The first trip in 2009 was aborted due to the loss of the trailer to the blowover in Wyoming & month to get the truck repaired & replace the trailer.

  The first leg of this years travels unexpectedly started with no wheeled transport at all.
We got an invite from very good longtime friends, the Richolds. These folks are well known by many on the list here but for the others they are part of the infamous Bermuda Boat People crowd who we spent so many memorable weekends together on the  water as our kids grew together.

They also shared our first RV trip, renting two class Cs for two week loop trip out of Denver some 12 or 13 years ago.

March 1st we were off on a 4 week trip to the Exumas chain of islands in the Bahamas starting in Ft Lauderdale.

Right from the beginning we were dogged by weather. About 12 hours after arrival in Miami we headed out to sea to be ahead of bad weather which would have kept us in Ft Lauderdale for almost a week.

All through the trip we did not get much rain but lets just say a sailor would have been much happier than the crew of De Onions with the wind.

The Ride

Must say the folks at De Onions Cruise Lines know how to set up a send off.

Carolyn & the youngest crew member, Ashley, in charge of entertainment 

 

How the 'other' .00099% lives. Atlantis, Nassau. The ironic part is, these things are far too big to get into the best anchorages.

What can be said!

Coolin out!

One of the local residents, a nurse shark

The colours are quite something, even compared to Bermuda. The reason for the difference is the white sand bottom rather than grass as mostly found in Bermuda.

De Onions crew, Skipper, Michael & executive officer, Lisa. 

Greeting a friendly stingray

What Carolyn came for, the conch salad, 

every chance she got.

The explorers

The Bahamas are nothing without one of these to get around in.

The Worshipful 'unofficial' Lord Mayor of Georgetown, Exuma, Andrew Gracie & his lovely wife, Carol

A grand bridge to Nowhere. One of so many grand projects that sit half finished, finished but unoccupied or under-occupied. This one to Crab Cay.