Day 10: Hiking Mount Scenery And Exploring Saba Island - Our Favorite Caribbean Island!
Hiking Mount Scenery On Saba Island
After clearing customs, settling my belly from our 45 minute mooring field Goldilocks crashcourse, Garvis, our new friend gave us a small tour of The Bottoms and Windwardside. He told us of how his grandfather was one of the men who helped build the Road That Couldn’t Be Built. I loved people-watching on this island. Many of the locals have Dutch genetics - tall, thin, light blonde fine hair. We took in the sites as we drove through the beautiful town of The Bottoms, and made our way up to the trailhead of Mount Scenery (3084 feet high.)
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Day 10: Queens Garden On Saba - The Best Dining Experience In The Caribbean
Queens Garden describes themselves as, “The most relaxing hideaway of the Caribbean” A small luxury resort tucked away on the beautiful island of Saba.”
And honestly? I couldn’t describe it any better. You walk into this romantically lit outdoor dining courtyard. There’s an array of orchids lining the rockscape. There's a gorgeous trellis covered in vines and dancing with lights, a treehouse table they call “the bird’s nest”…
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Day 10: Meeting Saba, The Unspoiled Queen -- Sailing From Eustatius To Saba
Day 10: Meeting The Unspoiled Queen - Saba Island. (There’s Definitely A Princess Up There.)
4:45 AM We released our mooring ball and started our sail to Saba. I had a ton of fun taking moonlit pictures of the oil tankers anchored in the outskirts of Statia’s port. After a smaller sail ( I think it was around 3-ish hours) we made it over to Saba.
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Day 9 Visiting Eustatius: Sunsets, Crotch Shocks, & Goats-- The "Golden Rock" Trading Mecca Of The Caribbean
We sailed into Oranjestad’s picturesque fort, peppered with chickens and goats. We imagining what it would have looked like to see 200 ships in that harbor, trading and supplying and swapping all kinds of information and technology in its day. Here's our experience of visiting Eustatius - The Golden Rock.
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Day 9: Our Failed Attempt At Exploring Nevis and St. Kitts
We woke up this day with every intention and hope of exploring beautiful Nevis. Known for its monkeys and Sombrero mountainous region, we couldn’t wait to explore. And yet, the day couldn’t have panned out any differently.
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Day 8: Mooring Off At Pinney's Beach, Nevis And Solving The Salon Sauna Mystery
Concluding a 12 hour day of sailing beyond volcanos, landmarks in marketing history, and feeling a new level of confidence in captaining a boat, we made our way to Pinnie Beach off Nevis, and solved the ongoing Salon Sauna Mystery.
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Day 8: Redonda--Land Of The Makeshift Kings, Marketing Geniuses, And Turning $#!t Into Gold, Literally.
Redonda is a small rock between Montserrat and Nevis without a lot going on, but the history of this strange place is like so many Caribbean islands: a reflection of mankind's constant ability to rise from the ashes, turning lemons into lemonade, and make something out of nothing. Redonda, you rock. Literally.
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Day 8: Montserrat: The Emerald Isle Of The Caribbean. Sailing From Guadeloupe To Nevis
Sailing by Montserrat is an experience within itself. You can see the city of Plymouth, a faint line on the island, half devoured by Ash, slowly returning back to the earth. You can see boulders the size of houses (READ: THE SIZE OF FRIGGIN HOUSES) that flew several kilometers from the caldera in the most recent volcanic eruption. In a nutshell -- Montserrat is friggin' cool.
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Day 7: Why Is Lunch Taking So Long? Sailing From Iles des Saintes To Guadeloupe
Sailing to Guadeloupe was calm, some might say monotonous, other than taking some photos and getting some great sketches. For some reason, it was taking Danny an unusually long time to prepare lunch. We looked into the galley, and this is what we found.
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Day 7: Naked Snorkelers, Baby Squid, And How To Sail A Sailboat (Step By Step!): Exploring Sugarloaf, Iles Des Saintes And Sailing To Pigeon Harbor, Guadeloupe!
I was the captain today! We started the day off getting ready to snorkel Pan de Sucre (translated: Sugarloaf), this strange rock that looks exactly like a sugar loaf. But before we could do that we needed to act like complete idiots, me switching between a French accent and a terrible Russian accent giving Snorkel mask tips.
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Day 6: The Quaint French Village In The Middle Of The Caribbean--Sailing To Iles des Saintes, Terre de Haute
We didn’t want to leave Dominica, but we woke up early and sailed by Pan de Sucre (Sugarloaf) into Terre de Haute. Iles des Saintes feels like a quaint French village, right in the middle of the Caribbean. We checked into customs in a cyber café (which was much easier than our other experience checking into customs on Dominica. Bourg des Saintes is an adorable town, sparkling clean and picturesque, with red roofs, beautiful flowers growing, and no one is in a hurry.
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Day 5: Dominica Recap- What It Cost Us To Travel, Tour and Explore Dominica For The Day
Wrapping Up Our Day Exploring Dominica: Here’s what it cost us to spend a day touring Dominica, visiting 3 amazing tours, lunch, transportation and mooring our boat for the night. Our last evening with Dominica consisted of playing Farkled and a special guest performance from Fuzzbow, Laura's inseparable childhood stuffed animal, caught on camera.
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Day 5: Dominica's Indian River Tour AKA The Most Epic Guided Tour Ever
Titus; the 5:15 in the morning Pirate, took us on a guided tour of the Indian River, AKA the most epic guided off-the-beaten-path (literally) tour of our lives. Here’s what happened.
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Day 5: Potato Pie And Rice: What’s For Lunch? Dining Ashore On Dominica
After Clearing Customs, exploring the Syndicate Hiking Trail, and taking a dip in the Syndicate Falls, Slim took us back down to Portsmouth for lunch. Here’s what we found: Potato Pie and Caribbean Stewed Chicken!
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Day 5: Sharing Grapes With A Grown Ass Man: Reconnecting With My Own Humanity Hiking The Syndicate Waterfalls, Dominica
In yoga we do all this talk about “creating a connection with other human beings” and “being the light,” and yet, it’s like, “Oh, share my water bottle with a total stranger who lives on a rural island? Ew no.” I shared grapes with a total stranger. And it rocked my humanity.
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Day 5: Hiking To Syndicate Waterfall On Dominica
Travel websites say, ”To get to Syndicate Falls Trailhead, take a taxi 2.5 miles into the rain forest.” Note: That’s a very literal statement. Before you get out to the actual waterfall, you’ve got to TAKE A TAXI 2.5 MILES INTO A RAINFOREST. That’s half of the fun! Here’s our adventure of hiking to the Syndicate Waterfalls.
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Day 5: Jurassic Park Meets Pinterest--Hiking The Syndicate Trail On Dominica
The Syndicate Trail is a gorgeous, vibrant trail to hike on Dominica. Here’s our experience of the island, and there’s an embarassing story thrown in here, too. If you’re a free spirit or nature lover of any sort, you will thoroughly enjoy Syndicate Trail, and Dominica in general. It’s lush and vibrant flora and fauna is king of all the Caribbean islands.
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Day 5: 3 Keys On How To Not Have A Meltdown While Checking Into Customs In The Caribbean | Ashore On Dominica
If you know anything about clearing customs in the Caribbean, I’m sure you’ve heard the horror stories. Here’s my spin on how not to have a meltdown while trying to clear through customs and 3 tips on how to cooperate with Caribbean government officials in Dominica.
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Day 5: Exploring Dominica, Land Of The 5:15 AM In The Morning Pirates
Day 5: This morning we met Titus, the 5:15 AM in the morning pirate of Dominica. Titus rejoined us, suggested some of his favorite activities ashore for the day, we convened and decided on an itinerary, and then joined him in his panga and went ashore.
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Day 4: Night Watch + How To Sleep During An Overnight Passage From Martinique To Dominica.
Overnight passages don’t come naturally for the majority of humans. As a crew member on a boat delivery, you have this concoction of feelings when it’s your turn to sleep, and you're not on watch. This is supposed to be your “downtime,” but there’s always that bottom line “being on call” feeling where you can’t really relax and let go. Here’s a few tips from my experience trying to sleep underway.
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