by Dana | Mar 21, 2021 | cruiser life, long island bahamas, ragged islands bahamas, water cay bahamas
Even this won’t be an option for at least a day maybe several.We’ve seen working phone booths in far more remote placeslike this in French Polynesia.Photo by Kelly Lacy from PexelsWeather permitting, we’re off to the Bahamas... by GWTAdmin | May 4, 2014 | bahamas, bahamas hot rods, cruising destinations, cruising life, eleuthera bahamas, golf carts, long island bahamas, transportation
This Eleuthera island golf cart sports Nascar stickers anda racing number as well as freakin’ fast flames.Lookout! It’s a bird. It’s a plane. No, it’s a golf cart… with flames! Lookout! Here comes another one! And another!When... by GWTAdmin | Apr 24, 2014 | blue holes, cenote, cruiser activities, cruiser destinations, Dean’s Blue Hole, free diving, hiking swimming, local food, long island bahamas, provisioning, road trip, sinkholes, sport fishing
Long Island’s Dean’s Blue Hole Wes C. Skilesphoto for National Geographic While in many places the BAHAMAS’ Long Island coastline is quite pretty, we decided to blitz the island in a day.Long Island, ironically, is not the Bahamas’ longest island. At 110 miles... by GWTAdmin | Mar 31, 2014 | bahamas, cruiser destinations, cruising activities, cruising life, great bahama bank, jumentos bahamas, long island bahamas, pearson 365 sailboat, wing on wing
Whoo-hoo! Wing-on-wing downwind from Long Island to Water Cay Jumentos!Bahamas Ragged Islands and Jumentos are remote! Here’s mini taste of our first day. More to come as internet access allows!Sunset over neighboring commercial fishing... by GWTAdmin | Mar 31, 2014 | cruiser destinations, cruising communication, georgetown bahamas, jumentos bahamas, long island bahamas, ragged islands bahamas
Phone booth, Thompson Bay Long Island; thelast location our cell-phone based hot spotworked. Funny, in the U.S. these phone boothare antiquated. Here, they’re still viable.“Is there cell coverage in the Jumentos or Ragged Islands?” I asked a few... by GWTAdmin | Mar 22, 2014 | bahamas, bimini, cruising communication, cruising life, georgetown bahamas, long island bahamas
Will my off-brand Bahamas smart phone / hotspot work betterin remote areas than this relic we saw in Bimini? Dunno yet.One of the most challenging aspects of cruising is less about the not-haves even though our boating lifestyle is a close cousin to car...