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Castaway Cay, Bahamas- Tug of War

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The Board Shorts Gave Us The Edge This private island in the Bahamas, is a Disney Cruise Line port of call. In answer to the question: "When Is The Copy Better Than The Original?" This would be it. The sand has been sifted to a fine white powder. The mosquitoes  are nowhere to be found. The water is crystal clear and turquoise blue. Paradise found. Escape TO reality. I am not talking about staged authenticity, like my visit to Papette Tahiti. Most designers spend their time creating shopping malls. Re-creating the island paradise, however, is admirable. Once used as a stop for drug smugglers.Think “Snow White” or “White Snow” . There is an airstrip on the island, but it is no longer in regular use nor maintained (I shot some video on July 4,2012, a previous visit) .It's unusual isolation becomes, in its own way, a paradise-somewhere in the Bahamas. It is not Gilligan's Island but it has also been used for filming; the beach where Tom Hanks first encounter...

Cozumel- Any Fin Is Possible

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The Aquatic Life Sitting is the new  Smoking of our generation. Yet, Meditation, the new  Push Up. The OCD tourists (Above) drowns in the same ocean that the ADDitude traveler (Below) swims with delight. The hyper organized Intentional Traveler, complete with checklists, sunscreen and "travel clothes"verses Lite Traveler, on  a shoe string budget and the shirt  off/on his your back. The sum of my  problems is the inability to sit quietly alone in a deck chair on a ship! It is easy to mistake motion for progress and nothing is so big and complicated that it cannot be run away from.  I know what to do-swim with my friends the dolphins. Nothing Is The Hardest Thing To Do. No massive massive 110 day world cruise  emotional and sensory overload---just the repetitive itineraries of The Caribbean Blue Life In Time WYSIWYG-What you see is what you get- I do not create the Caribbean blue ocean, the white powder sandy beaches. Rath...

Cozumel- Any Fin Is Possible

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The Aquatic Life Sitting is the new  Smoking of our generation. Yet, Meditation, the new  Push Up. The OCD tourists (Above) drowns in the same ocean that the ADDitude traveler (Below) swims with delight. The hyper organized Intentional Traveler, complete with checklists, sunscreen and "travel clothes"verses Lite Traveler, on  a shoe string budget and the shirt  off/on his your back. The sum of my  problems is the inability to sit quietly alone in a deck chair on a ship! It is easy to mistake motion for progress and nothing is so big and complicated that it cannot be run away from.  I know what to do-swim with my friends the dolphins. Nothing Is The Hardest Thing To Do. No massive massive 110 day world cruise  emotional and sensory overload---just the repetitive itineraries of The Caribbean Blue Life In Time WYSIWYG-What you see is what you get- I do not create the Caribbean blue ocean, the white p...

Grand Cayman-Scaling Back on The Fish

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Life at Sea - Maritime Adventures Life at Sea Maritime Adventures & Personal Transformation Working on Ships: A Real Life Saver Journey across the world's oceans, discovering new cultures, meeting incredible people, and experiencing the transformative power of life at sea. From the Caribbean to Alaska, from the Mediterranean to the Pacific - every voyage is a chapter in the story of personal growth. ⚓ A Real Life Saver and Life-Extension Working on ships has been more than just a career - it's been a journey of self-discovery, adventure, and personal transformation across the seven seas. "I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list." This was the p...

Earthlings,Please Don’t Feed The Tourists

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Tree Calendars in New Zealand  like pages in a diary. We live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and we think this to be normal? Happy Earth Day, as I have said before: Why do they call it Planet Earth when it is clearly ALL ocean. Well, come to think of  it, it's the trees, and Nature: I Shrink Therefore I am - I feel so small, when these mega waterfalls , glaciers and forests come in my view: I posted on these happy spots: Alaska ,   Norway, South Pacific , New Zealand , but Hawaii has an รœber special  place in my heart.  Read More at   It's Called The Big Island Not The Tiny Island This is a conversation between Sarah Kennedy And when the sky was painted with stars, and she was spotting landmarks out like the  southern cross- in another hemisphere- in a  land down under. KENNEDY: I was born in Zambia. We lived in a kind of Garden of Eden in C...

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