Thursday, December 31, 2009

New Year's Eve

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We were picked up right at 9:10am by the dive boat, and threw in our gear and headed over to the north coast of Bequia to do a drift dive. O...

Review: Treason

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Treason was a free book I picked up from the Kindle store. In fact, all of Don Brown's books are available for free. It didn't tak...
Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Bequia

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Despite Norman's tinkering with the skiff's outboard, it still wasn't running reliably. At this point, I made the comment to Ron...
Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Canouan to Union Island

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I slept well, but in the morning almost everyone else complained about the surge moving the boat so violently that they had trouble sleeping...
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Monday, December 28, 2009

Young Island to Canouan

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The new sailors turned out to be students from Columbia, Paul and Greg. we had heard from Norman that they were a couple, and apparently ha...
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Sunday, December 27, 2009

Young Island

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We had our last two dives on St. Vincent scheduled for today, as the idea would be to leave Young Island the next day for Union Island after...

Review: Snake Agent

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Snake Agent is Liz William's novel about an Occult investigator named Detective Inspector Chen. When I heard that it was set in a versi...
Saturday, December 26, 2009

Review: Stabilizing an Unstable Economy

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The recent financial crisis has been called a Minsky moment by many economists I respect. Minsky's 1984 work, Stabilizing an Unstable Ec...

Review: Passage at Arms

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Passage At Arms is Glen Cook's submarines in space novel. It follows the story of an ex-military“embedded-reporter” attached to a Climb...

Wallilabou Bay to Young Island

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Wallilabou Bay is infested with mosquitoes. In general, Caribbean mosquitoes aren't bad, but Lisa had so many bites that her legs were p...
Friday, December 25, 2009

Christmas Day

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There was no diving on Christmas Day, so everyone woke up late, and Norman prepared an outstanding English breakfast, with eggs, bacon, and ...
Thursday, December 24, 2009

Wallilabou Bay

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Apparently, the day before, a new boat had arrived, which forced Norman to switching mooring buoys. Norman wasn't very happy about it, b...
Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Wallilabou Bay

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We woke up early in the morning, as Sarang, Norman, Alena, and Allison were headed over to the airport. Sarang had to return to Utah today, ...
Tuesday, December 22, 2009

La Soufriere

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We woke up at 5:30am and ate a hurried breakfast before heading out to Tony's to wait for our guide, Franklin, to arrive by 6:00am. Unfo...
Monday, December 21, 2009

Port Elizabeth to Wallilabou Bay

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We woke up this morning and got our dive gear ready. For me, this meant my mask and snorkel, but for Lisa, this meant her BCD, wet suit, and...
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Sunday, December 20, 2009

Bequia

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I woke up at 6am today, which was my indication that my cold was mostly over. Yet when the opportunity came up to dive, I declined it, partl...

Review: Transition

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Review: Transition Transition is Iain M. Banks' latest science fiction novel. It's about world hopping, multiple dimensions, and a ...
Saturday, December 19, 2009

Rodney Bay to Bequia

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The morning started out with introductions to the last two of our outstanding crew, Ron and Sue, both experienced sailors from Michigan. The...
Friday, December 18, 2009

Rodney Bay

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Lisa and I decided to stay aboard this morning, which meant that we got assigned dish washing duties out of sequence! Well, this was fine by...
Thursday, December 17, 2009

Marigot Bay to Rodney Bay

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Norman had threatened to get up at 7am to run the boat down to Rodney Bay this morning, since Zach had to be discharged as crew so he could ...