super swimmer / grenada

Chaguaramus Harbour, Trinidad - WEST INDIES (September 2017)

Chaguaramus Harbour, Trinidad - WEST INDIES (September 2017)

Chaguaramus Harbour, Trinidad - WEST INDIES (September 2017)

palm fruit / trinidad

Chaguaramus Harbour, Trinidad - WEST INDIES (September 2017)

Chaguaramus Harbour, Trinidad - WEST INDIES (September 2017)

Chaguaramus Harbour, Trinidad - WEST INDIES (September 2017)

Chaguaramus Harbour, Trinidad - WEST INDIES (September 2017)

mother & daughter / trinidad

Met at 40 & T at 9. Chaguaramus Harbour, Trinidad - WEST INDIES (September 2017)

sugar apples & silky oak / trinidad

Sugar apples. Chaguaramus Harbour, Trinidad - WEST INDIES (September 2017)

Chaguaramus Harbour, Trinidad - WEST INDIES (September 2017)

Chaguaramus Harbour, Trinidad - WEST INDIES (September 2017)

Chaguaramus Harbour, Trinidad - WEST INDIES (September 2017)

tropical kids / trinidad

Chaguaramus Harbour, Trinidad - WEST INDIES (September 2017)

Chaguaramus Harbour, Trinidad - WEST INDIES (September 2017)

Chaguaramus Harbour, Trinidad - WEST INDIES (September 2017)

Coconut seedling.
Chaguaramus Harbour, Trinidad - WEST INDIES (September 2017)

outdoor tropical shower / trinidad

Chaguaramus Harbour, Trinidad - WEST INDIES (September 2017)

Chaguaramus Harbour, Trinidad - WEST INDIES (September 2017)

flora port of chaguaramus / trinidad

Chaguaramus, Trinidad - WEST INDIES (September 2017)

Chaguaramus, Trinidad - WEST INDIES (September 2017)

Chaguaramus, Trinidad - WEST INDIES (September 2017)

Chaguaramus, Trinidad - WEST INDIES (September 2017)

Chaguaramus, Trinidad - WEST INDIES (September 2017)

King sago palm (Cycas revoluta). Chaguaramus, Trinidad - WEST INDIES (September 2017)

King sago palm (Cycas revoluta)
Chaguaramus, Trinidad - WEST INDIES (September 2017)

Croton (Codiaeum variegatum). Chaguaramus, Trinidad - WEST INDIES (September 2017)

Banana leaf. Chaguaramus, Trinidad - WEST INDIES (September 2017)

rainy season / trinidad

Golden Spider Lily (Crinum xanthophyllum).
Chaguaramus Harbour - TRINIDAD (October 2017)

Golden Spider Lily (Crinum xanthophyllum). Chaguaramus Harbour - TRINIDAD (October 2017)

Chaguaramus Harbour - TRINIDAD (October 2017)

Fiddle leaf plumeria (Plumeria pudica).
Chaguaramus - TRINIDAD, West Indies (September 2017)

Fiddle leaf plumeria (Plumeria pudica).
Chaguaramus - TRINIDAD, West Indies (September 2017)

Crinum Lily Chaguaramus Harbour - TRINIDAD (October 2017)

Ti plant (Cordyline fruticosa). Chaguaramus Harbour - TRINIDAD, West Indies (September 2017)

Golden Spider Lily (Crinum xanthophyllum). Chaguaramus Harbour - TRINIDAD (September 2017)

Chaguaramus Harbour - TRINIDAD, West Indies (September 2017)

Banana Leaf.  Chaguaramus Harbour - TRINIDAD, West Indies (September 2017)

Ti plant (Cordyline fruticosa). Chaguaramus Harbour - TRINIDAD, West Indies (September 2017)

day passage / grenada to trinidad

On September 1st, 2017, we moved SV Smoke from Grenada to Trinidad's. The last items on the boat's worklist would be completed in the Port of Chaguaramus. Then the boat would be moved to the port of Punta del Este, Uruguay.

Caribbean Sea. Day-sail from Grenada to Trinidad - September 2017

Caribbean Sea. Day-sail from Grenada to Trinidad - September 2017

coco water / grenada

Corinth, St. David - GRENADA / West Indies (August 2017)

Corinth, St. David - GRENADA / West Indies (August 2017)

swimming off the dock / grenada

Corinth, St. David - GRENADA / West Indies (August 2017)

provisioning for local produce / grenada

Corinth, St. David - GRENADA / West Indies (August 2017)

Corinth, St. David - GRENADA / West Indies (August 2017)

Corinth, St. David - GRENADA / West Indies (August 2017)

young badass sailors / grenada

Young Badass Sailors. 

In June 2011, Tormentina and Raivo were ages 2 & 9 months old when we left the East coast of the United States to make a crossing of the North Atlantic to Europe. 

They had at that point, never even gone on a day sail. My husband James said, "Don't worry Somira, the coast of Canada is really long. If the kids are miserable, we can just pull into port." 

21 magical days later we pulled into Cherbourg, France and were greeted at the dock by our friend Mathieu Feron. He had a bottle of red wine, a fresh baguette, and camembert in hand. My Cambodian-French cousins came to visit bearing gifts of sweet plums and cherries. We had our floating home in a foreign country. We were sold.

Six years, 30,000 ocean miles, a dismasting (+subsequent 3 years of being shipwrecked on the island of Navarino), & the birth of two younger siblings later, these two amazing kids crossed their original sailing track on the paper chart in May 2017, just off of the Brazilian coast by Recife.

This portrait of them was taken just over a year ago, aboard SV Smoke, a 62' Chuck Paine Bougainvillea that James was representing for sale & was preparing for a delivery to Punta del Este, Uruguay, where the boat was eventually sold.

With this upcoming voyage, the kids would be crossing the equator for the third time.

Young badass sailors - Tormentina (age 9) and Raivo (almost 7).
Aboard SV Smoke. Corinth, St. David - GRENADA / West Indies (August 2017)

nutmeg / grenada

Nutmeg, the official spice of the spice island of Grenada.
Corinth, St. David - GRENADA / West Indies (August 2017)

local oranges / grenada

Local oranges. Corinth, St. David - GRENADA / West Indies (August 2017)

Local oranges. Corinth, St. David - GRENADA / West Indies (August 2017)

passion fruit / grenada

Beautiful colors of the local passion fruit. Corinth, St. David - GRENADA / West Indies (August 2017)

Better than plastic toys... local passion fruit. Corinth, St. David - GRENADA / West Indies (August 2017)