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Salt Cay, Bahamas
Oct. 18: This blog is NOT about our next sailing adventure. It is about our next writing adventure. Sunday we fly to Nassau to begin a writer’s retreat ( and celebrate Ed’s birthday) which actually takes place on Salt Cay a … Continue reading
History of Normans Cay
Sept. 1: The following is a chapter from Night Watch, our second suspense novel, set in the Bahamas. The history of drug trafficking through Normans Cay plays a pivotal role in the book. The research for this chapter came from several … Continue reading
Gated Community
August 30: I have never been interested in living in a gated community. It always seemed a bit pretentious but here we are living in one-that is when we’re living on Sable our Catalina 385. Our home port is Halifax … Continue reading
Posted in book blog, Sailing adventures
Tagged Catalina 385, Halifax Harbor, living on a sailboat, marina living, new fiction, writing
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Under the Banyan tree
March 16: A short post. Sable is in Melbourne Harbor Marina. We didn’t quite make the last two days. Very unusual weather coming to Florida. Very high seas-15-18 feet with swells up to 8 feet and winds 20 + … Continue reading
Award Winner-The Long Road to Paris
Nov. 17: The Long Road To Paris received honorable mention in the Writer’s Digest self-published book contest. We don’t know how many thousands of book were reviewed and judged, that information will be available when this contest is officially published in their magazine … Continue reading
Don’t mess with Chickcharnies
Oct. 9: Jan’s story: We came to South Andros to gather some additional local color for the last chapters of Night Watch, our novel-in-progress set in the Bahamas. I’m afraid yesterday we got a bit more than we’d planned. During … Continue reading
The last unexplored wilderness
Oct. 3: The more we read the more we are convinced that South Andros has all the characteristics we need for the final scenes of Night Watch. Andros is the largest of the Bahamas islands and is described in one of … Continue reading
Face Blindness or Prosopagnosia
Aug. 6: This will be a short post but for those of you that missed CBS 60 Minutes last night you missed a most interesting report from Lesley Stahl on face blindness or prosopagnosia. This is the first time I … Continue reading
Norman’s Cay, Carlos Lehder and the Medellin Cartel
Aug. 1: It’s all history now, but the story goes like this. In the late 1970s and early 80s, this beautiful cay in the Exumas was the personal island headquarters used by legendary Carlos Lehder for his high-tech approach to smuggling … Continue reading
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Tagged Blow, Carlos Lehder, cocaine smuggling, Exuma Islands, Johny Depp, Norman's Cay, sailing Bahamas
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Fact or Fiction
July 10: For those who have read The Long Road to Paris, know that “Stewball”, the 1967 VW Bettle featured in the novel contains “radical technology- technology so revolutionary that oil-exporting counties, including Russia, want every trace of it destroyed, and China, lacking … Continue reading