Day 5 – Basse Terre & Chutes du Carbet Waterfall"Basse Terre" is a comical misnomer for Gaudeloupe's main island. It translates to "low land" but it refers to the tallest half of Guadeloupe where you can find rainforest, mountains, and an active volcano. We had another land-based adventure day, taking a taxi van into the rainforest for a short walk to the Chutes du Carbetwaterfalls. We didn't...
Day 1 – Travel to Guadeloupe
So it was me, my parents, and 4 of their friends, for a week in Guadeloupe aboard a Bali 4.0 catamaran named Diderot from Dream Yacht Charters this February. I just completed a similar sailing cruise a couple years ago with Cruising World Magazine aboard a Moorings4800 catamaran, where we took a week to explore St Lucia and the Grenadines down to Grenada. This time...
I have only ever visited Nantucket once before. There was a women's regatta hosted on the island back in high school, so of few of us girls took the ferry over to Nantucket for a weekend. It was rainy, cloudy, stormy, and the event was washed out. I don't remember much else besides spending the weekend playing Red Rover in a rainy field, so this trip was like rediscovering Nantucket all over...
The Wickford Yacht Club's annual cruise has a couple spots it hits every year or so. Cuttyhunk is a traditional stop, but usually somewhere in Buzzard's Bay or perhaps Block Island are regular ports of call given their proximity to Narragansett Bay. But every now and again we venture further, such as Provincetown last year and Mystic a year or so before that. This August the cruise made it all the...
The Yacht Club Cruise is very much one of my most looked forward to events of the summer. It's a signal that summer's coming to a close, but it's also an excuse to get out of the house, away from the computer, and spend days on end swimming, sailing, and reading under the sun! This year was no different, and we had a terrific week of sunny summer weather at the beginning of August.Ok, well the...
