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Road Trip Home 6-24 to 7-1
Florida, Georgia, S Carolina, N Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, Missouri, Kansas, Colorado, Utah, Idaho 6-24 We stopped at the Florida line and I got my keychain and free cup of OJ. Then, again at the Georgia welcome center. The kids got a welcome bag with a coke and magazine. We grabbed Chick Fil- A. The first…
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6-18 to 6-24 Fort Pierce to St. Augustine
6-18We went to church at 9 at the Merritt Island Ward (I think). It felt very American and a normal church. The people were very nice. It was also Father’s day. We rode to church in the Westers RV. The older kids all went to class together for Sunday School. Kelsey was so brave as…
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Nassau to WPB, Florida 6-12 to 6-17
6-12Wow! What a day? We felt good about leaving for the Berry islands. We got ready to leave. The S Africans came by to pick up a bracelet they left on our boat. Lia came by to say goodbye as well. Kira made Owen a nice card for his birthday. We said our sad goodbyes…
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Northern Exumas, Staniel Cay, the Aquarium, Wardrick Wells, Shroud Cay 6-2 to 6-11
6-2 The kids did school and cleaned the boat. As soon as the rain let up we went to town for some groceries. The kids were supposed to finish cleaning to get ready for guests.We had the golf cart which was so helpful. We went to the general market near the airport. They had a…
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Black Cay, Rat Cay, Pigeon Cay, Rudder Cay, Galliot Cay, Staniel Cay, Exumas 5-23 to 6-1
5-23 We decided to leave for Black Cay from Georgetown at the top of the Great Exuma Island. It was a 3 hour motor. Kira was especially not happy, but I think we are all ready to not be on the go so much.We saw dolphins on our way out of the bay. It was…
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Southern Bahamas 5-16 to 5-22
Great Inagua, Landfill Point on Crooked Island, Clarence and Calabash on Long Island, then Georgetown. 5-15 Cale checked us out of the marina and the Armada came at 4pm to check us out of the country. The Armada officer had a “friend” with him. He used Google translate to tell Cale, ‘a tip would be…
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Ocean World 5-12 to 5-15
5-12 We had to get fuel on our way out of the Samana Marina. It was pretty windy but Cales docking was great. We got a later start then we’d hoped. We didn’t end up leaving until close to 3. The waves had picked up by then, so our first 3 or 4 hours was…
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Samana,DR 5-6 to 5-12
5-6 After a very rough beginning the first several hours, things smoothed out and it was a pretty uneventful passage. We left around 5:30pm and got to Samana around 8:30am. We tried to stay about 5 knots so we didn’t get to the channel to early. I took the 12 -3:30 shift. When I went…
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Punta Cana DR 5-3 to 5-5
5-3 Our day started super early, at 1:30am. We got ready and started to pull up anchor for our first Mona passage crossing west bound. It was of course dark, and nothing can be easy. The bridle and all the chain was covered in mud, so I was going slow to rinse as it came…
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Gilligans, Bio Bay, Boqueron 4-26 to 5-2
4-26 We left around 2 for Gilligan’s island, about a 3 hour ride (ha ha 3 hour tour). There wasn’t much wind so we had to motor. It’s a big mangrove here. We tried to go to shore and eat but it was closed so we played volleyball on the beach. There were tons of…
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