WWCL Caribbean Cruise, Day 2

Ship Card (Island F-46 on the scorecard) ~ Visiting Haiti on board ss Magellan you find that “creole” describes more than just a spicy cuisine. Creole originally meant “locally born” but now describes a Caribbean identity in which the different races and nationalities of the Caribbean mix together in a melting pot ~ like the … Continue reading »

WWCL Caribbean Meditation, Day 317

Island Card                  (visiting Islands J-66, K-73, L-80 & N-103) ~  During your cruise on board ssc Island Dancer you collect a variety of beautiful multi-colored stamps from the islands of St.Thomas, (U.S. Virgin Islands); Nevis, Saint-Barthélemy, (the Leeward Islands); and St.Vincent, (the Grenadines): These stamps celebrate the precious natural … Continue reading »

WWCL Caribbean Meditation, Day 308

Ship Card (visiting Island F-45) ~ On board ss Neptune docked in the Dominican Republic (discovered by Christopher Columbus during his first voyage in 1492), you can visit the Caribbean’s oldest city, cathedral and university. After a morning of culture and history in Santo Domingo, run away to the pearl-white sands and coco-palm-fringed beaches of … Continue reading »

WorldWide Cruise Line Ink, Day 237

Island Card <Lose Island M-86> (visit Caribbean destination P-108) ~ When Indigo Sails docks by the town of Windward on the island of Carriacou in the Grenadines, you see villagers of Scottish descent carrying on the tradition of wooden boat building, using the white cedar of this island and the greenheart tree from Guyana. These … Continue reading »

WorldWide Cruise Line Ink, Day 231

Island Card (visiting Island X-147) ~ Visiting Isla Holbox (pronounced ohl-bosh) off Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsular while on board ss Caribbean Star, the highlight of your morning is a walk along a beachcomber’s fantasy ~ a wide expanse of beach, miles long and littered with millions of sea shells of every conceivable Caribbean variety. ~ Continue reading »

WWCL Caribbean Meditation, Day 223

Island Card <lose Island F-40> ~ Meeting the ss Colombia in San Juan, Puerto Rico, for your Caribbean cruise you plan to attend the annual Casals Festival with the Symphony Orchestra of Puerto Rico. This concert series is the centerpiece of the local cultural calendar with world-class performers, but you have the wrong date … … Continue reading »

WWCL Meditation Olympic, Day 221

Island Card                                 (visiting Islands F-49, F-50 & Y-153) ~  When you visit Havana, Cuba, on board ss Colombia, you find that the island has wonderful white beaches and beautiful blue waters. Varadero Beach is 12 miles of silky sand … Continue reading »

WWCL Meditation Olympic, Day 194

Ship Card (visiting Island R-115) ~ On board ss Neptune your stay in Curaçao is a whirlwind tour of some of the best shopping in the Caribbean. Here, you find good bargains on Japanese and German cameras, Swiss watches and Dutch tableware. After visiting the central shopping districts and exclusive shopping malls don’t miss the … Continue reading »

Caribbean Meditation Olympic, Day 16

Ship Card  (visiting Islands N-104, L-78) ~  On board ss Magellan sailing past Dominica to Terre-de-Haut in the Caribbean Sea, you see a variety of whales and dolphin in the waters off the port side of the ship. You see and hear a very vocal 45 foot long sperm whale breach the water; then watch … Continue reading »

Caribbean Meditation Olympic, Day 14

Ship Card   (visiting Island F-48) ~  Some of the finest art in the Caribbean has come from Jamaica: “Bird Man” ~ a fabulous, over five hundred-year-old, Taino Indian woodcarving of a part bird, part human creature: Sketches of the Jamaican Jonkonnu masquerade from the 1830s, parodying European culture: Political sculptures such as “Negro Aroused” … Continue reading »

WWCL Meditation Olympic, Day 13

Island Card    (visiting Island Z-154) ~  ss Azure Sea docks in Key West and your shore excursion is a visit to the Key West Museum of Art and History. Here you find the paintings of Mario Sanchez, a self-taught artist who used egg yolk, coffee grounds and limestone dust to create local scenes on … Continue reading »

Caribbean Meditation Olympic, Day 12

Ship Card   (visiting Islands A-1, A-5, X-144, X-145) ~  When you return to Miami on board ss Azure Sea after your cruise to the islands of Cancun and Cozumel, you take a boat tour of Biscayne National Park; which includes Boca Chita Key, a view of various underwater wrecks and marine life, and also … Continue reading »

Caribbean Meditation Olympic, Day 11

Island Card   (visiting Islands P-106, P-107 on the scorecard) ~  Your stopover today on board sv Tradewinds is Tobago, where you hike through the rain-forests with their trees and plants of such varied and vivid shades of green. Also, see the Reserve on Little Tobago with its multitude of different species of birds; where you … Continue reading »

Reflections after 10 days of Caribbean

Cruising. Well, it looks like many different islands have been visited during the last 10 days aboard the different cruise ships and sailing boats of WorldWide Cruise Line’s Caribbean Cruise Board Game. Also, the islands visited and the activities that have been highlighted in the different Island and Ship Cards seem to have been a … Continue reading »

Caribbean Meditation Olympic, Day 10

Ship Card    (visiting Island P-110) ~  Standing on the deck of mv Riviera as she sails from Devil’s Island off French Guiana, you watch an Ariane rocket blasting off into space from Kourou with a communications satellite on board. You recall the hospital, the church and the cemetery of the penal colony here, from … Continue reading »

Caribbean Meditation Olympic, Day 9

Island Card        (visiting Island L-80) ~  The Carib Indians, the French, English and Swedish have all fought over St.Barthelemy, (St.Barts). Now, this is a French outpost with an ultra-chic South of France atmosphere. Stories have it that Monbars the Exterminator, a dreaded French buccaneer who preferred to count bodies than to count … Continue reading »

Caribbean Meditation Olympic, Day 8

Ship Card    (visiting Island  D-24) ~ One of the most anticipated annual celebrations in the Bahamas is the week-long Out Island Regatta on Great Exuma. When you dock the ketch “Indigo Sails” at Georgetown in April this normally sleepy town is transformed. Traditional Bahamian sailing ships race against each other during the day and … Continue reading »

WWCL Caribbean Meditation, Day 7

Island Card    (visiting Island L-77) ~ During your visit aboard sv Tradewinds, go south to the beautiful beaches of Martinique. While you are at the beach make sure to see the brightly painted “Gommiers”, (fishing boats crafted from a single tree trunk), which will catch the bounties of the sea that adorn your dinner … Continue reading »

WWCL Caribbean Meditation, Day 6

Ship Card     (visiting Islands A-1, B-9, B-10) ~  Sweet Bimini … only fifty miles from the Port of Miami … is a world apart. A famous Reverend and Preacher visited the island to find some inspiration for his acceptance speech of the Nobel Peace Prize and his words to his guide after a … Continue reading »

WWCL Caribbean Meditation, Day 5

Island Card    (visiting Island Q-111) ~ When visiting the Free Port of Porlamar, Margarita Island, on board ss Neptune, you treat yourself to a duty-free shopping spree including a string of pearls (the name Margarita comes from the Greek word for pearl). You also take home samples of the local craft work, such as … Continue reading »

WWCL Meditation Olympic, Day 1

While people with iPhones or iPads may purchase and play the WorldWide Cruise Line Caribbean Cruise Board Game App. (an abbreviated version of the game), in its full technicolor glory, with all its bells and whistles (well, at least 1 bell/gong sound effect from a far away eastern Temple), I am making the daily Island … Continue reading »

NEEDED: A Daily Spiritual Practice

~ so that whenever you want you can take a time-out, feel a part of something bigger than yourself … perhaps give yourself up to a higher power and let yourself flow for five or ten minutes ~ so that your inner & outer light and love can have some moments of peace & tranquillity … Continue reading »

Please, don’t come back

to this blog too often. I am not writing this because I want you to be reading my daily (definitely not so daily) thoughts on various subjects. This blog is not about me, it is about you. If my posts can help in any way to give guidance for people to take responsibility for their … Continue reading »

Déjà Vu, All Over Again.

And so it carries on … More wars, more death, more destruction. The media heavyweights are full of it; newspapers, the weekly mags., the box in the corner, the internet news sites; killing in Iraq, killing in Afghanistan, killing in Libya; and in Egypt its “musical chairs” for the ruling army, “who knows what’s happening” in … Continue reading »

The “Message in a Bottle”

theme that is WWCL’s Caribbean Cruise Board Game packaging, came by serendipity, while trying to find game packaging supplies at regular board and box-making companies. So many problems were surfacing in this area that an alternative was looked for; the answer coming out of the blue. The clear polycarbonate Captain’s Chart Tube, with plugs on … Continue reading »