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Tiny House Blog: Be Our Guest

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We’ve moved onto a boat, sailed away and we’re having the time of our lives. At first you thought we were crazy. Now you want to come visit us!

Before you book your plane ticket, there are a few things you should know…

Take a look at the list I published on Tiny House Blog: CLICK HERE

Are you up for an adventure? Be our guest!

A Coconut Christmas

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Wishing you all a Very Merry Coconut Christmas!!

We will be enjoying a cozy Christmas Eve on our boat tonight with our family and extended cruiser family for a lobster feast and fresh baked pumpkin pie…

Merry Christmas from everyone on Mary Christine!!

Dinghy Skurfing in Grenada

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Not too long after we arrived in Grenada and got settled in at the anchorage in Mt. Hartman Bay, our friends Steve and Janet arrived on their boat, Lunacy. She’s got different colors and is outfitted a bit differently, but she is essentially the same boat as ours! It’s always fun to meet up with fellow Whitby owners and talk about our sisterships.

It’s not all boat projects all the time. Though we work hard, we play hard too.

Steve upgraded his outboard motor to a 25hp and the guys couldn’t WAIT to go skurfing to test it out!

Skurfing is when you take a skimboard or surfboard and ride it behind a boat like a wakeboard. Unlike a wakeboard, you are not strapped to the board. Skateboarding + Surfing OR Skimboarding = Skurfing

They went flying through the anchorage and had a great time!

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I tried to get some shots of Steve but they were always too far away…

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What are your favorite watersports?

Tiny House Blog: Dos Libras!

This morning my newest post was published on Tiny House Blog. This is the first of many similar posts to come where I have an opportunity to feature fellow cruisers and their Tiny Floating Homes while expanding the Tiny House concept and introducing the Tiny House community to our style of simple living!

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courtesy of Tammy Swart, www.thingswedidtoday.blogspot.com

First up is Tammy and Bruce aboard S/V Dos Libras!

Follow the link for a tour of their tiny home: http://tinyhouseblog.com/?p=34493

You can follow Tammy and Bruce on their Facebook Page and read more about their adventures on their blog, Things We Did Today.

 

Do you have a Tiny House that you would like to see featured? Contact me!

The Belmont Estate Part 2: Cocoa Beans and Nutmeg

The Grenada Chocolate Company makes delicious chocolate ‘from tree to bar’ right here in Grenada!

We took a tour of Belmont Estate with our friends David, Toutou, Maya and Tyler on Four Coconuts during the island’s annual Chocolate Week in July.

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We learned about how the cocoa beans are processed…

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And also how mace and nutmeg are processed.

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We sampled an EXCELLENT local chocolate drink that’s 10-times better than the hot chocolate we grew up with from the U.S.

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And we tried samples of the final product… locally made gourmet dark chocolate!

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Kelly was our excellent and cheery guide.

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And of course we had to take home a few souvenirs :)

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Up next… The Goat Dairy!!!