Quirks & Gripes

Aircraft Fiascoes

Aircraft Fiascoes

Have you ever tried to push an airplane? They are heavy. This was a charter flight traveling from Nassau to a remote island in the Exumas. It also happened to be carrying my husband. I had waited for the plane to arrive from a safe vantage point outside of the chain...

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Only in the Islands

Only in the Islands

An only in the islands moment... The construction boys have been working hard all week, so my husband and I decided to treat them to an afternoon on the boat so they could get in the water and do some spearfishing. We stopped at numerous coral heads and they would...

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Daylight Come and Me Wanna Go Home

Daylight Come and Me Wanna Go Home

I have been singing "The Banana Boat Song" aka "Day-O" for three days. All I want to do is go home. To be fair, Sunday was a last minute day. We got a phone call from the supply boat captain early in the morning to let us know that he was heading back to Nassau. We...

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Back to the “Real World”

Back to the “Real World”

    Mark and I are going full circle. Well, we thought we had already gone full circle, but to our surprise, we had one more notch to go to complete the radius.   Mark called Nassau home for almost 20 years prior to moving out to a remote island in the Exumas where...

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