Andrew & Jazz

Minca’s Fincas

We got up, packed our bags, left the Captain with a friendly young cat-sitter, and had a nice breakfast at[…]

Our first task on arriving in Santa Marta was to get Villa some air conditioning. Sitting at anchor, the boat[…]

Our second boat dive of the day was a short hop along the coast from Cantil. The shop ran it[…]

We found a local dive company with day trips to Tayrona National Park, so we hopped on a boat. (Well,[…]

To travel west, we first had to go southeast. This is because Aruba requires boats to check in and out[…]

We started out anchored off of Arashi beach, which had good access to a couple of dive sites and not[…]

Our anchorage at Arashi Beach was pretty near to a mooring ball where we’d seen several boats drop off snorkelers.[…]

We had a nice, if somewhat sporty, sail past the cruise ship terminals and up to the northern coast of[…]

We got together with Drew and Patricia to rent a car for a couple of days, to tour the island[…]

We started our stay in Aruba in the “airport anchorage”, the only anchorage with access to Oranjestad. Our delivery of[…]