Tag Archives: boats It’s an old, old landscape… as old as the dinosaurs… The exposed cliffs of the Jurassic Coast in southern England stretch 155 km across East Devon and Dorset and span 185 million years of the geological and fossil history. Britain’s first natural World Heritage site, it was designated the “Devon Heritage Coast” by UNESCO in 2001: “The coastal […]  Gulangyu. “Drum Wave Islet”. Named for the sound that the waves make as they roll off the Taiwan Strait and hit the off-shore reefs and rocks, Gulangyu Island is a delightful place. Just a short ferry ride from downtown Xiamen, in the south east of the People’s Republic of China, it is a popular destination for local visitors. Gulangyu’s charming pedestrian-only streets are filled with traditional […]  “The cure for anything is saltwater – sweat, tears, or the sea.” – Isak Dinesen “… sweat, tears, or the sea.” Sailing provides all three. I love being on the water. And – even with the sweat, tears, and frustrations – being on the water under sail is even better. I’m not a particularly good sailor. That is in no small part because […]  This time a year ago, my husband and I were on a big boat, on a very short trip from Port Canaveral (Orlando) Florida, to Nassau, capital of the Bahamas. You might ask why we were on what can only be described as a floating resort-cassino in the North Atlantic Ocean. That’s a very good question, […]  There are some scenes so iconic that they could take place nowhere else. So it is with the leg-rowing fishermen of Inle Lake in the Shan Hills of Myanmar. They are so uniquely Burmese that images of these men – standing on the sterns of their boats with one leg wrapped around an oar – often feature in travel advertising and […] |
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