Paradise Found by Captain John Borden The Grenadines: Islands in the Clouds Part IV: Palm Island and Petite St. Vincent 13.15°N.Lat./61.2°W.Lon. Located at the southern end of the archipelago belonging to St. Vincent and the Grenadines lie two resort islands quite different in character from one another or from anywhere else in the Caribbean. Palm […]
Paradise Found by Captain John Borden The Grenadines: Islands in the Clouds Part III: The Tobago Cays 11.15° N. Lat. / 60.40° W. Lon. When it is so cold that the pipes freeze and I have to bring the dog in, I inevitably ask myself why I ever left the Caribbean. Fact is I never […]
Paradise Found by Captain John Borden The Grenadines: Islands in the Clouds Part II: The Island of Mustique 12.52°N.Lat./61.11°W.Lon. Of all the Grenadines, Mustique is perhaps the most unique. You’ve heard of exclusive clubs and restaurants; who is to say that there can’t be an exclusive island? The private owners of the island united to […]
Paradise Found by Captain John Borden The Grenadines: Islands in the Clouds Part I: The Island of Bequia 13.00°N.Lat./61.15°W.Lon. We had been chartering in the Grenadine Islands of the southeastern Caribbean for only a few months. Making the adjustment from the Virgin Islands was quite a challenge. Gone were the supermarkets, laundry services, seafood deliveries, […]
Paradise Found by Captain John Borden The Island of Dominica 15.34 N.Lat / 61.27 W.Lon In the wild grandeur of its towering mountains, some of which rise to five thousand feet above the sea; in majesty of its almost impenetrable forests, in the gorgeousness of its vegetation, the abruptness of its precipices, the calm of […]
Paradise Found by Captain John Borden St. Lucia 13.53 N. Lat / 61.04 W. Lon When we were both in college, my brother William gave me the LP, Making Movies by Dire Straits. This album stirred our imagination; especially the track entitled “Tunnel of Love”, which tells of an English amusement park called The Spanish […]
Paradise Found by Captain John Borden The Island of Anegada 18.46 N.Lat / 64.24 W.Lon “There! Right there, I think I see something.” These words are uttered by nearly every sailor who ventures 14 miles north of Virgin Gorda on route to the most overlooked island in the British Virgin Island chain. Not only is […]
Paradise Found by Captain John Borden The Virgin Islands, Part I, St. Croix 17.5 N.Lat / 65.0 W.Lon Hired straight out of college as a manager trainee by the Buccaneer Hotel and Resort on St. Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands, my brother William had been in “America’s Paradise” for nearly a year before I […]