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415 days. 7,700 nm.
Posted in Bahamas, Connecticut, Culebra, Dominica, Florida, Guadaloupe, Les Saintes, maine, Marie Galante, Maryland, Massachusetts, Montserrat, Nevis, New York, North Carolina, Puerto Rico, Rhode island, Saba, Virgin Islands, Virginia
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Tales of Cocoa, Stage 2
We started step two of our experiment with the cocoa beans we collected on Dominica. Step one was to ferment for one week. Translation: let the beans rot. You may have noticed the blue and orange mold you’d expect on … Continue reading
Posted in Dominica, Guadaloupe, Les Saintes
Tagged Chocolate, cocoa, cruising with kids, living aboard, sail
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Tales of Cocoa and Cocoy
Everywhere we look are trees full of fruit. We expected palm trees with coconuts and banana trees. These are leading exports for the island. We’d even heard about abundant mangoes and papaya. Grapefruit and oranges growing in the rain forest … Continue reading
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Tagged cocoa, cocoy, cruising with kids, Dominica, dominican fruit, sail
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Birding at Syndicate Forest
This afternoon, we took a spectacular trip up to Syndicate Forest with the bird expert for Dominica, Bertrand Jno Baptiste. He is a forester in his day job, but is an expert in the birds of Dominica and has even … Continue reading
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Tagged cruising with kids, flycatcher, Jaco, living aboard, Parrot, sail
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To Market
Saturday morning we headed into the market that takes place every Saturday morning. It is busy, noisy, and colorful. Most of the sellers have fruits and vegetables. A few have canned goods, pasta and similar products. Many of the tables … Continue reading
Eat more chicken
Hannes snapped this as a new ad for Chic-Fil-A, or in this case, KFC.
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