I’m still not sure how we ended up with this boat. One day we were sitting in the Caribbean in our beautiful cliff-side apartment, the next we were looking on Craigslist at this gorgeous boat that just seemed to make more sense than an apartment or a house in our relocation to Florida. Why waste [...]

The Florida Keys are a perfect place to start over, if you ask me. We moved from Saba in April for different opportunities, and so far everything is going according to the un-plan. After four weeks working on the Juliet we are off and running, waiting in a bar in Key West for the current [...]

I can’t remember ever making a conscious decision to live in the islands. For some people, its a goal; “When I retire, I’m moving to the Caribbean,” or I’ve known people to do amazing things and go to great lengths to hone skills they see as necessary for “survival” abroad. I knew someone who spent [...]

For such a small island, there’s a lot going on in this little life.
October on Saba means Sea & Learn and its probably my favorite time of year here. Sea & Learn brings dozens of scientific experts down to Saba where they can spread the word about their research, conduct some new studies on the [...]

When you’re stuck on a small island you often need to come up with creative ways of entertaining yourself, because its often obvious that no one else is going to entertain you. So I’ve decided to learn how to cook… the hard way. read more…

In the morning, we’re all relieve to see everyone is still breathing, even though we’re nowhere near normal. We assemble a make-shift catbox in the closet of the fancy hotel – complete with the morning’s newspaper and high-quality resort sand fresh from the beach. With a little poking, prodding and squeezing, we finally get a [...]

If you’re a pet owner, you know the lengths that we will go to save our animals. You can’t put a price on that adorable face, or the way they curl up in your lap, or follow you around the house, or fall at your feet when you come home at night. Those quirky little [...]

What happens when you run out of water and don’t have magical pipes to bring you more…

It was about that time… when my skin starts to crawl and I get all squirmy and need to take a small step off this small rock and get away. So when a day-trip to Nevis was proposed I jumped on it. Even though it meant a 2.5 hour boat ride for an eight hour [...]

Ok, its not the world, its just my dive gear. But c’mon, really? All at once? That’s just not fair!
First it was my dive computer. Started acting a little funny, I sent it in for its annual service, it came back acting even funnier. And then stopped working altogether. Sent it back and it kind [...]