Secluded beach on Green Turtle Cay where we stopped for a few days waiting for calmer seas to go through the Whale Cay Passage
Due to Internet problems, we will be back with another more detailed post as soon as we can. Stay tuned.
Charles enjoys his outings…here Bob is with the Captain of our buddy boat the Casey Dee
Love the colours of the historic old jail on Green Turtle Cay
Bob was able to do a bit of fishing en route from West End to Great Sale Cay
Windsong II and its crew crossed the Gulf Stream from Palm Beach in Florida to West End in the Bahamas successfully the evening of March 10, arriving March 11.
Given our challenges with Internet access here, let me just post a few images today to give you the flavour of the last week and I’ll return with a more detailed post soon.
Arriving at West End in the Bahamas after a night crossing the Gulf Stream
Waiting for customs and immigration to open…WIndsong II and buddy boat Casey Dee
Heading out in calm turquoise waters to our first anchorage at Great Sale Cay
Had some amazing sailing between Great Sale Cay and Green Turtle Cay, with speeds up to 8.5 knots
That’s our dinghy in front at Curly Tails in Marsh Harbour on the Island of Abaco, where we are right now…
She must find a boat and sail in it. No guarantee of shore. Only a conviction that what she wanted could exist, if she dared to find it.
Jeanette Winterson
I was honoured to be asked to contribute a guest post to Focusing on Life (FOL) , a collaborative blog by a group of women whose photography and writing I’ve long admired.(Thanks, Dotti!)
In my post, I share some key life lessons I’ve learned from living on a sailboat in southern climes part of the year. This lifestyle is our dream — we love the freedom, enjoy the new experiences that open up to us every day and embrace living with less. It’s not for everybody, that’s for sure, but we all have our own dreams and places where we feel most alive and at home with ourselves. What’s yours?
Click here to read my guest post.
Focusing on Life has as its goal “to create a caring community for people who are passionate about photography and life. We hope this will be a place that will inspire, teach, nurture, support and accept one another; a place where we can grow in our craft and as individuals.”
Why not come over and check out FOL? And while you’re there have a look at some of the other posts. I’m sure you’ll be inspired and delighted by the talent of the regular contributors and guest posters too. If you like what you see, you’ll want to become a regular reader and part of this wonderful supportive community.
On Biscayne Bay, facing Key Biscayne
I have to admit, I can be a bit contrary. Just as the weather is turning and making us think about being “inside” more, I start thinking more about being outside. But being outside, inside a sailboat, that is. One of the places that makes me feel most at home in the world.
These scenes are from Biscayne Bay near Miami in Florida a few years ago. As we start talking about getting ready to go south, I decided to scan through these old images and the great memories came flooding back.
Lately, I’ve been spending time getting familiar with my new Topaz bundle, which contains more presets than I will ever know what to do with. I’m thinking about the simplicity of life on a sailboat and what it feels like to be inside a small vessel on big open water under big open sky. The feeling of all the dramatic contrasts really lends itself to black and white.
I haven’t been all that pleased with my black and white conversions in the past, but I am pleased with Topaz. It provides so many great options and allows you you to tweak to your heart’s content, to get exactly the look you want.
Topaz also came to the rescue in dealing with the noise in the images, which were made with my previous camera, which was a lot more noisy than my new one. So I also ran Topaz Denoise, which is absolutely wonderful for getting rid of that pesky noise.
I’m really just scratching the surface with Topaz so if you have any favorites or tips for using it, I’d love to hear about them.
Taken from our sailboat facing Coconut Grove.
Biscayne Bay, Florida
Linking with Kim Klassen’s Texture Tuesday.
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