Showing posts with label coconut. Show all posts
Showing posts with label coconut. Show all posts

October 30, 2018

old cocos / trinidad

Chaguaramus -TRINIDAD, West Indies (October 2017)
Chaguaramus -TRINIDAD, West Indies (October 2017)
Chaguaramus -TRINIDAD, West Indies (October 2017)
Chaguaramus -TRINIDAD, West Indies (November 2017)
Chaguaramus -TRINIDAD, West Indies (November 2017)
Chaguaramus -TRINIDAD, West Indies (November 2017)
Chaguaramus -TRINIDAD, West Indies (November 2017)
Chaguaramus -TRINIDAD, West Indies (November 2017)
Chaguaramus -TRINIDAD, West Indies (November 2017)
Chaguaramus -TRINIDAD, West Indies (November 2017)
Chaguaramus -TRINIDAD, West Indies (November 2017)
Chaguaramus -TRINIDAD, West Indies (November 2017)

August 10, 2018

jelly cocos from kem & jarmella

Twice a week, Grenadian locals Kem and his wife Jarmella bring a truck load of fruit & local produce to the boatyard. So nice to have a jelly coconut mid-day in the tropics and stock up on fresh goods direct from the farmers.

St. David, GRENADA / West Indies (May 2017)
St. David, GRENADA / West Indies (May 2017)

crazy for cocos

St. David, GRENADA / West Indies (May 2017)
St. David, GRENADA / West Indies (May 2017)
St. David, GRENADA / West Indies (May 2017)
St. David, GRENADA / West Indies (May 2017)
St. David, GRENADA / West Indies (May 2017)

August 9, 2018

coconut dreams / grenada

On Saturday, May 13th, 2017 we tied up at Grenada Marine's dock in St. David's after 21 days of sailing from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Before we left Ushuaia, my kids and I had been dreaming about drinking coconuts and swimming in the clear & warm waters of the Caribbean. So amazing to think that after 41 days of coastal sailing from Ushuaia to Grenada that the Magellanic forests of the south have been replaced by the tropical jungles of the Caribe.

All landfalls are special, but this one was a very big deal for us after three years of being dismasted & shipwrecked on the Chilean island of Navarino. The long voyage here from the southernmost tip of South America also marked the completion of our family circumnavigation with our two oldest kids.

Within a week of landfall, Anasazi Girl was clean, stripped down from the voyage & ready for a haul-out and we were left to savor the sunshine, sand, coconuts, nutmeg, & organic chocolate of the spice island.

Mid-day coconut water re-hydrate.
St. David - GRENADA / West Indies (May 2017)

July 14, 2017

coco art

Craving coconut juice and meat has provided my mad artist kids with a cool 3D surface to paint. Awesome multi-step project of scraping off the fibers, painting each side, then re-attaching the halves into a whole, sometimes with a hidden treasure inside (hopefully not the house key!), with a grand finale where the nut is broken open with a hammer. Wish I could take credit for the creative concept & end result, but this one was fully kid-driven.

Coco Art 2016 - coconut shells, tempera, acrylic, and silicone.
Left nut by Tormentina, Right nut by Raivo.
Puerto Natales - Provincia de Ăšltima Esperanza, Region XII CHILE (julio de 2016)