We go back to sea today, after a long stay in the Canaries. We are approximately 2700 miles from Antigua, our landfall in the Caribbean. Our current latitude is 28 […]

“All made up and nowhere to go.” The marina fees have been paid up. The weather is acceptable.  Fresh fruit has been wrapped and stacked. The water-maker has been un-pickled.  Batches of goodies […]

We just wrote about our recent to visit to Mount Teide on the island of Tenerifie.  It’s good that we got up there when we did.  Though we are at […]

A few days ago, we hiked through the Garajonay National Park, here on La Gomera, in the Canaries. The Park straddles the deep interior of the island. It was established to […]

We briefly visited Tenerife on our way sailing to La Gomera, here in the Canaries.  Tenerife, if not the Canaries, is dominated by Mount Teide.  We had been catching glimpses of it […]

Leander is docked at La Gomera, an island near the western edge of the Canary Islands. We had planned to move on relatively quickly, but we fell into Carnaval week here. […]

This video captures Leander flying downwind on our recent passage to the Canaries.  It was good to be going with these seas, and not against them. It is always very […]

Foxes feature in some of the children’s books we read to the kids.  Alexander had a fear of them for  a while, liking them with tough and nasty wolves.  There are a […]