Who would have thought it could possibly take 35 hours to sail 85 miles? James is never keen sailing to windward and this last trip is the reason why! We sailed whenever we could, we lolled around when the wind disappeared and swam off the back of the boat when it got too hot, we […]
We are so glad we have had the chance to return to Montserrat and ‘do the tour’. Although we had seen the lava flow and ash from a distance when we visited last March, nothing prepared us for the actual experience of walking through the volcanic ash and viewing the devastation caused by the volcano. […]
It’s been a while since we had a ‘donation to charity’ blog so for £15 to your favourite charity here it is, two for the price of one: i) what is the signpost trying to tell James? and ii) what is James trying to tell us? Unfortunately the crew and family of Freebooter […]
Nevis sightseeing was hills in the fiery heat on bikes that protested followed by a morning of seeing the sights from a bus. We moved on to St Kitt’s where we were supposed to have an easy trip by bus but we were dropped off at the foot of Brimstone Hill to climb to 218mts […]
A lot has happened in the last few days. We mounted a dinghy invasion on the University grounds once more and we played cricket using mangoes as balls, the baseball bat given to us by Edward to defend ourselves as the cricket bat and the trusty old foldaway seat as a wicket! Totally exhausting but […]
We are somewhat perturbed that you, our dear readers, might think that life on Ocean Rainbow is one long party so we are putting evidence of some serious hard work on this blog! James took on the propellor and Claire had the 'easy' although somewhat larger job of scraping OR's hull. We are […]
Peregrine and Honey Ryder provided the transport– poor Yamahaha lacking the horsepower required for this trip! We loaded up drinks and picnic, sunscreen and mozzie repellent and set off up the Rivière Salée to Grand Cul-de-Sac Marin. The river is singularly lacking in wildlife but once in the main basin we did see a couple […]
We had great fun scrumping and now have a fridge full of lovely fresh mango but our pièce de résistance on Sunday was our gatecrashing! We did it …. not quite on the first attempt but we have managed to see around the Mémorial ACTe (museum) after ‘sweet talking’ the Minister of Tourism. Quite a feat …. […]
After a day spent cleaning and tidying we are now ‘fit for purpose’ were it not for the horrendous number of barnacles that have attached themselves to our propeller. James’ attempts to remove them were rewarded with sliced fingers (despite gloves) so we have decided to lift OR and do the job properly. A bit […]
After a wonderful weekend in North Yorkshire for the amalgamation of the 9th/12th Royal Lancers with the QRL to form the Royal Lancers we are fully ‘Royalled Out’ and ready to get back to some sailing and adventuring on Ocean Rainbow. Our return to OR was somewhat blighted by evidence that we had been boarded […]