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Category: Long Reads

Galapagos Long Reads with a Close-up of the Feet of a Blue-Footed booby bird
June 12, 2022July 25, 2026Lorraine Escher

Long Reads Galapagos

Long reads Grenada: A picture of someone walking on a hike in Grenada during a Hash House Harriers run
December 11, 2021July 25, 2026Lorraine Escher

Long Reads Grenada

Henry with a local Dominican boy outside Wendy's bar near Luperon harbour, Dominican Republic where we spent hurricane season with our catamaran and four kids
December 6, 2016July 20, 2026Lorraine Escher

Luperón Long Reads — Boat Kids Go Local

Long Reads: Exumas Stories. A picture of Betty and Paul on the beach at Shroud Cay.
May 24, 2016May 24, 2016Lorraine Escher

Bahamas Long Reads — Exumas Stories

A Nurse Shark that we seriously feared in the Jumentos, Ragged Islands and other islands south of George Town.
May 23, 2016May 23, 2016Lorraine Escher

Southern Bahamas Long Reads — Beyond the Exumas

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This Week in Years Past

  • 10 years ago this weekLuperón Long Reads — Designing and Building a Mooring for Our 50-foot Catamaran
  • 11 years ago this weekMedical Provisioning for Cruising: A Year’s Supply of Medication—Then What?

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