No picture this time...just an update

We are returning to Antigua on April 30th with expected "splash" date of May 1st.  Watch for photos and narrative of our adventures from there on until June something.

Is this a wahoo or a barracuda?

We threw it back into the ocean because we weren't sure.  I'll be real sorry if anyone says its a wahoo...

Groupers we caught in a crab pot off Little Cayman

The Groupers!  Not one but two within a half hour!  Ate one, the let the other one go.  We caught these in a crab/lobster trap baited with conch.  What we didn't know was that Grouper's have really big, hard heads that take up at least 1/3 of the body.  Good eating though.  Wish I had some Grouper meat in the freezer...

OPPS!!

This is our navigational screen on April 19th, 2011; the red line is the boat track, the green spots are land above sea level, the dotted outlines indicate shoals under the water.   Bruce had the big idea to enter the inner reef off the north end of Grand Cayman using the old eye balling it method.  As the screen shows,  we hit shoal reef.  Duh!  What makes one think you can take an 8 1/2 foot draft sailboat somewhere that's clearly marked "obstruction"?  Fortunately we weren't under sail and going very slow.  I'll stick to the computer, thank you very much!.

We traded 1 pound of questionable Panamanian "ground beef", gristle and everything for these beauties from Cuban shrimpers.  The crew on these shrimpers are fed the lowly lobsters and never get any kind of beef.    They were most appreciative, as were we.

We are working on adjusting to the new blogspot.  As a result, we'll be posting photos of our previous adventures to keep you interested so that you return often.  If confused, go to the archives to the right of your screen.  

Old versus new...San Blas Islands Jan 2011

Welcome to the NEW Free Range Chicken website.  We will no longer be sending our blogs directly to each of you; when you want to know where we are, what our plans are, and what we are doing, please bookmark the website and check in whenever you want to!  This site allows us to post pictures and narrative, as well as some other features that we are still figuring out. 

Tahiti summer 2007

This is the fort on St.Kitts

Chicken at rest