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 […]

San Sebastian on La Gomera is a small place (pop. about 9k) on a small island (pop. about 21k).    But boy did this place punch well above its weight when it came to […]

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. […]

We just left Puerto de Mogan on Gran Canaria, and share these pictures and stories, partly to explain our long stay. When we left Sweden last August, the Canaries were […]