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From Barbados to Grenada
“Barbados is the Miami of the Caribbean,” said the nail technician working hard to remove the dead skin from my finger cuticles. She didn’t even look up. I’m sat in a shopping mall in Grenada right now. Her intricately braided hair woven tightly. When you bounce around the islands you meet people from all over. […]
Taiwan
July 28, 2018
I found this blog post buried in my draft folder. No I haven’t suddenly skipped to SE Asia. I am still very much in The Caribbean. It was pit stop I made in September 2017 after my cancer diagnosis was confirmed in The Philippines. It was also the last time I went on a bender…..enjoy! […]
Lionfish and sharks
July 13, 2018
In the Caribbean Lionfish are foe not friend. These zebra stripped fish are wrecking the reefs. A species that was introduced (no one quite knows how), their numbers are damaging marine ecosystems. They are highly venomous and have few predators. They are killing off endemic species by competing with their food source and they consume […]
Races and Olympics
July 7, 2018
(NB should have been updated June 20th) Day 12 and our sailors had a busy day of activity ahead of them. Today was Race Day. All four boats had to up anchor at 0915 and at 0945 we were expected to turn our motors off, raise both sails to race to Long Bay. Our monohull […]
The hyperbaric chamber
July 7, 2018
The hyperbaric chamber is a place no diver ever wants to be sent. It’s a confined, airtight capsule that is pressurised to a specific depth to try to rebalance a diver who is suffering decompression sickness (DCS). Last Friday night. (July 29) I watched a colleague go through this ordeal for five hours. We were […]
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