Random thoughts from the sea
Day 24, 2024 Grand World Voyage Friday, Jan. 26, 2024; Quepos, Costa Rica. I’m beginning to understand how people get into birding. For me, it would be the challenge of finding – and taking great photographs of – as many birds as possible. Of course, I would have to learn
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Day 22, 2024 Grand World Voyage Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2024; Panama Canal If this cruise gets any more “grand,” it may be the death of me. If it’s not a port day with lots to see and do, it’s a party or special event aboard the Zuiderdam. There’s hardly any
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Days 18 & 20, 2024 Grand World Voyage Saturday and Monday, Jan. 20 & 22, 2024; St Georges, Granada, and Willemstad, Curaçao. Proving once again that sometimes my best experiences ashore involve food and drink, I had the best ceviche ever in Curaçao’s 5 o’Clock Somewhere Bar & Grill. With
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Day 17, 2024 Grand World Voyage Friday, Jan. 19, 2024; At Sea, Atlantic Ocean I awoke to the motion of ocean swells yesterday, and it suddenly occurred to me that I hadn’t felt them for a week. The waters of the Amazon River were calm, despite currents of three or
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Days 13 & 14, 2024 Grand World Voyage Monday and Tuesday, Jan. 15-16, 2024; Parintins and Santarém, Brazil I’ve always believed that success in fishing is mostly a matter of luck. After today I think experience must play a role. As we all were dropping lines with raw meat on
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Day 12, 2024 Grand World Voyage Sunday, Jan. 14, 2024; Manaus, Brazil When last I cruised to Manaus (just last month!), we moved slowly past a tanker grounded on a sandbar. Our ship had barely more than a meter (39 inches) under the keel. Due to the low water level,
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Days 10 & 11, 2024 Grand World Voyage Friday and Saturday, Jan. 12-13, 2024; Alter Do Chao and Boca da Valeria, Brazil What a difference a month makes. When I was on the Amazon River in December, it was touch-and-go as to whether we could even cruise up the river
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Day 7, 2024 Grand World Voyage Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2024; Devil’s Island, French Guiana A friend in Andorra is tracking our journey and noticed yesterday that we were sailing down the northeast coast of South America, past Venezuela toward Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana. “Are you going to Jonestown?” he
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Day 5, 2024 Grand World Voyage Sunday, Jan. 7, 2024; Scarborough, Trinidad and Tobago Three sea days seem to be a perfect beginning to a long cruise, and that’s how we started this 128-day voyage. During our three days of sailing southeast from Fort Lauderdale we had time to fully
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Day 1, 2024 Grand World Voyage Wednesday, Jan. 3, 2024; Fort Lauderdale, Florida Remember what it was like returning to college or school in the fall? I never knew for sure who would return, so I was excited to see old friends. At the same time, there would be new
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