Weekly Photo Challenge: Wanderlust

We don’t travel overseas much these days – partly because we find air travel increasingly stressful, and also because it is a rather costly occupation, these days. So I have somewhat curbed my wanderlust, which is this week’s Photo Challenge.

Although I have a strong dislike of airports and planes, I do however love boats and trains (there was a Burt Bacharach song with a title like that – Dionne Warwick’s haunting voice…) So one of my most enjoyable trips in recent years was a ferry boat ride from Grenada to the tiny island of Carriacou, in the eastern Caribbean. Unfortunately my husband does not share my love of boats, but any excuse and I will hop into one!

This was the occasion of a BirdsCaribbean International Conference in 2013. I am not sure which was better – the trip out, forcing our way a little against the tide with the breeze in our faces, watching the flying fish glide; or the return trip, with misty rain on the horizon and a rainbow accompanying us on the way. It was a truly memorable day, that literally floats through my mind from time to time.

Me and the ferry, in Carriacou.

Dropping an anchor.

Another way to travel…under sail, at Paradise Beach in Carriacou.

The rainbow as we approached Grenada.

Sea, sky and boats.

A sailboat in St. George’s harbor.