Rock in Road

It was just too big to move I guess!

Petroglyphs St. John's

Roy will touch anything!

The waters around Vieques are filled with life.

Beautiful Mangroves, Vieques

Old San Juan, Puerto Rico

Caribbean Obama

From Antigua to Anguilla, support for President Obama is strong across the Caribbean. T-shirts with giant graphics, billboards, bumper stickers, buttons and newly minted local soca songs all dedicated to the new president are everywhere.

This fellow was extolling the Obama virtues outside the bus station in Antigua. The level of interest is amazing. Taxi-drivers, waitresses, shop keepers - everyone has an opinion and a comment to make about Barrack Obama.


I had to get my own T-shirt of course!
I've found that wearing it gives me instant access to club Obama.

Learn Something New

I was reading a book about the origins of nautical sayings the other day and I came across this interesting tidbit about the name of our boat: Bonanza.

"The word bonanza is derived from the Spanish bonanza (to sail with fair wind and weather). It is thought that American mariners borrowed the word from their Spanish counterparts and used it to describe prosperity in general. In turn, gold rush miners heard the word aboard ships bound for California and used it to describe any rich finds of precious metal. The word crept into colloquial American English and has come to mean anything that is considered abundant." 

Olivia A. Isil from When a Loose Cannon Flogs a Dead Horse There's The Devil to Pay.

So there you have it.