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Category: Caribbean

Caribbean includes blog posts from the West Indies and Haiti, though we briefly touched down in Jamaica. We spent seven years in the western Caribbean. Each country has a different flavor, and it’s definitely not vanilla.

09/11/202106/14/2026 Lorraine Escher

COVID Arrives in Grenada

07/25/202003/18/2026 Lorraine Escher

Waiting for Gonzalo

Why the Caribbean has no tides
02/21/201906/24/2026 Lorraine Escher

Why the Caribbean has virtually no tides

05/07/201803/10/2026 Lorraine Escher

Don’t mess with a missionary, man – Ile a Vache, Haiti

05/02/201801/25/2026 Lorraine Escher

Give me Voodoo: fear and fascination as a cruiser in Haiti (with bonus dream sequence)

02/16/201806/14/2026 Lorraine Escher

800 nautical miles from Grenada to Haiti

01/30/201806/14/2026 Lorraine Escher

Leaving Trinidad for Grenada with Svetlana

12/30/201701/24/2026 Lorraine Escher

Christmas dinner with the Preddie family, Trinidad 2017

All At Sea Caribbean magazine cover, December 2017.
12/20/201710/10/2025 Lorraine Escher

Two articles Published in All at Sea Magazine, December 2017

12/18/201710/19/2025 Lorraine Escher

We are still living on the hard in Trinidad. It’s not all Christmas and poinsettias.

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