Today we walked across the Brooklyn Bridge! It was hot, busy, and Beau kept asking why we didn’t just take the subway… Despite all this, we still had fun! The bridge is so iconic and beautiful, and the views were awesome. When we arrived the Brooklyn end, we headed for DUMBO. Not the flying elephant, […]
Author: Bianca Kindler
Our NYC Staycation – Road Trips Part 2
Our third little road trip from New York city would take us to Bear Mountain. We liked the name, and it’s a nature reserve so we imagined ourselves really going into the wilderness. We were pretty disappointed when we arrived to the queue for the car park… There was staff everywhere directing cars to available […]
Our NYC Staycation – Road Trips Part 1
We have been living in a real house the past 4 days! We are staying in our friend Carlijn’s apartment this week. She is staying in a friend’s apartment not too far from us. So we are all on staycation. The last time we did not sleep onboard Spacegrazer was one and a half years […]
Beat the Heat – Day at the Museum
Yesterday was one of the hottest days on record in New York. The temperature was forecast to reach 38C, but ended up being 43 in some spots in town. Our plan to beat the heat had been to spend the day inside the air-conditioned American Museum of Natural History. The museum is only 4 blocks […]
Living the High Life in NYC – Walking the High Line
Today we took the subway to Penn Station and walked to the High Line for an elevated stroll along the west side of downtown Manhattan. The High Line is a walking track, built on a disused train track. Their website explains it much better: The High Line is a public park built on a historic […]
A Day in Brooklyn
Today we rode the subway to Brooklyn. Destination: the Children’s Museum of Brooklyn. The kids played shop, pretended to run a pizza restaurant, built chairs and tried Mardi gras costumes. On the way home, it rained. We had a great time regardless. Bianca Kindler
Feeling Like a Normal Tourist – Taking the HOHO Bus in NYC
We have been sailing the world on Spacegrazer for more than 3 years now, so we do not consider ourselves tourists. No, we are intrepid travelers, adventurers, floating gypsies… Just call it something interesting. Being in a big city like New York though, we are behaving a lot like tourists. And that’s okay, because sightseeing […]
Arriving in New York City
We wanted to be in New York City for Fourth of July, and we made it! Entering the Manhattan area was pretty exciting. We were all on deck, lifejackets on, camera ready. After sailing under the Verrazano Bridge, we could make out more and more of the famous skyline. A tiny Statue of Liberty also […]
Life’s a Beach in Barbuda
Barbuda is one of the most beautiful places we have seen in the Caribbean so far. There are miles of pristine beach – quiet, clean and with the most amazing colours. The first day we spent anchored near Coco Point. We had been told to look out for the wild horses that roam around the […]
Gathering in Guadeloupe
Arriving in Guadeloupe and its little outlying islands, Les Saintes (or The Saints), we had to check into France again. I like the French islands because I get to polish up my high-school French, and, more importantly, we get to stock up on amazing cheese, wine and fresh baguettes and pains au chocolat. Our first […]
Dominica Days – Portsmouth
We would have loved to stay in the bay of Roseau a bit longer and do more hiking and exploring, but the swell was uncomfortable and we had enough of rolling around in our beds at night! So, we cast the lines off of our mooring buoy, said goodbye to our awesome guide Mr. Beanz, […]
Dominica Days – Roseau
Dominica is beautiful. One of our guidebooks said that if Christopher Columbus would sail around the Caribbean now, he would probably only recognise Dominica. Unspoilt nature is what makes this such a fantastic island. Dominica is also the only Caribbean island to have a surviving population of Carib Indians. The Carib Territory is an area […]
Piñata Party – Kai and Zoë turn 6
Kai and Zoë are now 6 years’ old! When we moved aboard they were 3. A lot has happened in that time. We have adopted a new birthday tradition from our friends on Mrs. Chippy: piñatas! Since we generally cannot buy them underway, we made our first piñata ourselves this year: a red Angry Bird. […]
Cumberland Bay – Saint Vincent
Bye Bye in Bequia In Bequia we had said goodbye to our friends on Nikau. They have to travel faster than us, since they plan to go through Panama Canal and sail their boat all the way back to New Zealand. It has been amazing hanging out with this cool family. They make fantastic videos […]
Beaching it in Bequia
No we did not beach Spacegrazer anywhere, luckily. But we did go to the beach a lot, and when we did, we beached our dinghy. So there you have it: the island of Bequia (pronounced Beck-way) is good for that. Beaching it baby! I had actually never heard of Bequia before sailing to it. Reading […]
Exploring More of the Grenadines
The Grenadines is a group of Caribbean islands, some of which are part of Grenada, and some of Saint Vincent. After visiting Grenada, Carriacou and Sandy Island in the Grenada part of the islands, we were now ready to explore Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. The first island to visit would be Union Island, where […]
Sandy Island Forever!
Sandy Island is an amazing little spot, just off the larger island of Carriacou. We arrived late in the afternoon from Grenada and our friends from Boag, Mrs. Chippy and Nikau were already there. Paul helped us tie to the mooring ball (our bow is so high above the waterline that we find it really […]
Great Grenada
Grenada was the next Caribbean island we visited after arriving in Barbados from our Atlantic crossing. We did not explore Barbados much, because we were sort of jet-lagged after our epic sail there. So Grenada felt like the first real Caribbean island to us. After dropping our anchors in Prickly Bay, we caught up with […]
The Atlantic crossing: Cape Verde to Barbados
Day 1 On Sunday, December 16, we departed from Mindelo, Cape Verde. We left together with our friends on four other boats: Boag, Mrs Chippy, Nikau, and Sorisso. We broke our fishing rod trying to reel in a big fish and slowing down the boat at the same time. Annoying! We have a hand reel […]