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Yesterday we pulled up our anchor and headed to the northern end of Martinique. Fun fact for Austin - In 1804 the British left cannons and 100+ men on Diamond Rock so they could use it as a "warship" to attack the French. There weren't any
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Last week Olivia and I took a very last minute trip back to Minnesota. There were some things that were easier to take care of from Minnesota and since Martinique is fairly easy to fly in and out of it was good timing for a trip. We gave both girls
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Ah Martinique. When we were stuck without engines this was the island we dreamed of getting to... and we're here! Our first morning in Martinique and we got a special delivery from our neighbor friends. We've been spending our days exploring, shopping, catching up with boat
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Olivia had a little bit of a different birthday celebration this year - stayed up until midnight, chocolate chip pancakes, balloons, gifts, McDonald's, time with boat friends and cake from a French boulangerie. She rated this birthday a 9.5 out of 10.
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St. Lucia wasn't on our list of islands to stop at because parts of the island have a bad reputation for crime. But the sail from Bequia to Martinique is over 15 hours, so St. Lucia is a good stopping point to break up the long distance. Some
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Our week started with taking the engines apart to get them ready for the new parts we were waiting on to come from the US. That is not a quick process, but luckily FedEx came through for us and we had the parts in 4 days (even with the Thanksgiving
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History is my absolute least favorite subject, but the heritage museum turned out to be my new favorite field trip. Bequia might be a small island (7 square miles, population 5,000), but there is so much interesting history here. The trip to the museum was a fairly steep 2
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We may not be in the US for Thanksgiving, but we are surrounded by lots of Americans where we are in the Caribbean. One of the local restaurants hosted a traditional Thanksgiving meal. We got it all (except for the family photo) - happy hour, turkey, ham, stuffing, gravy, mashed
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Yesterday we got invited by our neighbors to go to an old sugar cane plantation. We got a tour of the old sugar mill property that started back in 1789. We tried a bunch of different fruits, sugar cane, coconut, almonds and learned how they used to press the sugar
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When we bought our boat it had been sitting in a boatyard for 8 years. It needed a lot of work, including rebuilding both engines. As we were pulling into Bequia yesterday one of our engines overheated and is pretty much unusable. Our other engine has had issues for a
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New island for us today - Bequia - an island in St. Vincent and the Grenadines. We visited St. Vincent and the Grenadines in May, but not any of the islands this far north. Our goal for this week is to island hop our way up to Martinique, so we