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I have spent way too much time today uploading some stories from a sailing journey I took across the Gulf Stream to Bahamas in 1998. NOT your normal Bahamas cruise. I have stored them as "Memories" on this LJ (you can click on "Memories" on my "User Info" page if interested; or navigate through the Journal "Archive" to December 8-20, 1998 ( Read more... )

Woke up on my last day, Sunday the 20th, and the Green Turtle Ferry came right out to the boat to get me. $7 to cross to Treasure Cay; $6 cab fare to airport, $15 exit fee -- cash of course. Don't forget that. Then Gulfstream Air canceled my flight to Ft. Lauderdale, and put me on a flight to West Palm Beach. Oh well, I probably could not have ( Read more... )

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We sailed back around Whale Cay the next day, but could not repeat the Snapper catch. I hooked something large, but he worked himself free. Dave said I played it right, but it still got away. We arrived at Green Turtle, paddled ashore, then rented a golf cart to cruise the island. Walked out to a reef and spearfished some more ( Read more... )

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