Author: Mel

Living aboard a sailboat, blogging about the places we visit and the adventures we have. Love hiking, cycling, scuba, animals and adventure.

Social Distancing In Antigua On Board Sava

The spread of a worldwide pandemic has sent everyone scrambling, including we who live on sailboats. For cruisers who needed to be somewhere for hurricane season, Covid-19 has caused havoc. This is why we are social distancing in Antigua on board Sava.

Cruising Season

The Caribbean cruising season runs from late October to early July. The rest of the year is hurricane season, when we hunker down or leave our boats somewhere safe and hope for the best. For us, safe is below latitude 12.4, which is why we spent last hurricane season in Grenada.

As the pandemic occurred during cruising season, we are in a state of limbo, scared and trying to take the changes day by day. We have until late June to get our boat somewhere safe or on the hard.

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Top Quotes About the Sailing Life

Life aboard a boat sounds romantic and freeing, partly due to some famous quotes making it sound ideal. We cruisers know the difficulties of onboard living, and we have our share of sayings about the crazy parts of this lifestyle. Here are my top quotes about the sailing life and where they originate. These are quotes that resonate with me because they are so relatable.

Quotes about sailing

One of the first quotes that comes to mind is one cruisers say to each other often:

“May you Have Fair Winds and Following Seas”

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I don’t know who started saying this, but it’s obvious why we say it. Everyone wants good winds and the seas pushing us forward when we sail and so we wish each other the best.

Sailing is about taking risks, and seeing new places, so I like these quotes:

“Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.”

Andre Gide

“A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor.”

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Quotes about the sailing life FDR

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Street Art in Guadeloupe

If you love graffiti, you must go to Guadeloupe, especially the city of Pointe-a-Pitre. You may have read my favorite things to do in these French islands; now here’s my guide to the street art in Guadeloupe.

We moved around the islands of Guadeloupe (“Gwada”) on boat and by rental car. The main city of Point-a-Pitre is urban and gritty and full of life, with colorful street art around every corner.

We saw murals on the main roads outside the city but I couldn’t always stop or take pictures from a moving car. I got lots of snaps of the beautiful street art in Guadeloupe, plus sculptures and statues we spotted in the islands.

Welcome to Guadeloupe

Famous for Street Art

I didn’t realize it but Guadeloupe is famous for its street art. The World Kreyol Art Festival takes over the streets of Point-a-Pitre every year and street art is a big focus of the event.

Graffiti in Marie-Galante

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