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Last Day on the Water

Jul 26, 2011

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Location: Norman Island, Road Town, Peter Island, West End Author: Marta H. We woke up early to the ActionQuest morning CD, like every morning. After oatmeal for breakfast, I went to the skippers meeting. After that, the race started! We all pulled our main sail up and waited to go. The race started, we pulled [...]

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Compromising

Jul 25, 2011

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Location: Peter Island, Norman Island Author: Morgan M. We woke up early in the morning to sail to the Rhone off of Salt Island to go snorkeling. When we got there, we found out that the water was infested with sea wasps up to 10 feet deep! So we decided to go to the Indians [...]

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Caves and an Overnight Passage

Jul 24, 2011

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Location: Virgin Gorda and Peter Island Author: Mackenzie P. The voyage started as early as possible at 12 o’clock in the morning, with everyone split into two different watch teams. The overnight passage, which began in Saba, and ended in Spanishtown, Virgin Gorda, was a nice 80 mile voyage. Luckily no one became seasick (unlike [...]

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Birdcalls and our Final Overnight Passage

Jul 23, 2011

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Location: Saba Author: Ivy A. After a good nights sleep we woke up well rested. At 8:45 Parker and Andy were picked up and went scuba diving. While they were gone, some of us went swimming off of the boat. We saw a barracuda that was resting by our keel and there was a school [...]

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Hiking Mt. Scenery

Jul 22, 2011

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Location: Saba Author: Mahault F. We woke up at about 7am excited for the hike, which began at 10am. There was a lot of waves during the dingy ride, so we were already wet arrive on the beach. During our hike we crossed a village where we ate some mangoes that we found on the [...]

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