Joaquin 30 Miles From Georgetown

We've been getting e-mails asking if we're OK after Hurricane Joaquin, and we heard that all the boats in Hole #2 survived unscathed!  Hooray!  Georgetown had a lot of wind and flooding, but the hardest hit were southern Long Island and the Acklins Islands.  Daren, Libby, and I are grateful to be far away from all the excitement...in Slidell, Louisiana, since mid-August.  Not that we're out of the hurricane zone!  This year was the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina and the survivors all have tales that make your hair stand on end!   It's incredibly beautiful here and the food is amazing, but we are heading back down to the Bahamas and Flying Dogs at the end of the month!  Time to fly south for the winter!  We were SO pleased to find Watermakers Airline, that let Libby ride inside a crate next to my seat in the cabin, nonstop from Georgetown to Ft.Lauderdale's Executive Airport!  We couldn't have had this vacation without them!

One Year in Georgetown!

     Thanks to encouragement from Michael and Pat in Texas, former owners of our boat,  I'm back on the blog after 6 months!  It's good to know people read it!  : )

     We extended our Bahamian cruising permit for another year!  Compared to the Florida Keys, Georgetown is an easy commute for Daren!   (Thanks Al on Wind Dancer, who commutes to Houston).  Daren takes Delta from Nassau to Atlanta to San Jose, then an MVE car to Modesto!  He gets there on the same day, thanks to 3 time zones!  So, we'll stay here in Hole #2, Stocking Island, on a St.Francis Resort mooring as long as he's at MVE.

      Georgetown is great!  Bahamians are proudly Christian, and not cowed by political correctness, so there's no confusion about gender or marriage, or Who made us!  Faith and love trump fear and anger!  The locals are friendly, happy, healthy, and speak English!  They're hard-working, entrepreneurial,  family-oriented, and know the 10 Commandments,  so there's very little crime!   We love the Bahamas and mostly Bahamians!   The beauty of these islands is an added bonus!  : )

       S/V Windhover, with Susi, Henk, and son Theo are now in the Dominican Republic, and signed up for 4 months at Marina Zar Par, near Santo Domingo, on the south coast.  They spent a lot of time in Ile a Vache, Haiti, and loved it!  We'd planned to travel with them in December and that was our destination for Daren's commuting adventure!  They love the Dominican Republic, and we may catch up when Daren retires, if Jesus doesn't return first, which is a distinct possibility! 

       Have a wonderful Independence Day Celebration this weekend!  Bahamian Independence Day is July 10, and Daren arrives!  Hooray!