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You never know what you’re going to find here on Skinny Island on any given day.  A few years back this Cuban raft washed ashore right near the house.  No people aboard when it came in; we don’t know what … Continue reading →

We had a most interesting coda (a concluding remark, event, or section), to this year’s Biketoberfest this afternoon. I heard a series of motorcycle and car horns blaring and went out to investigate.  I found a guy standing on the … Continue reading →

Thought we’d do a little compare and contrast in this post.  This time of year, Fall, we have some of the most spectacular sunrises on Skinny Island, and it’s also the time, this weekend, for the supposedly secondary invasion of … Continue reading →

We’ve been thinking a lot about this lately, one of the inevitable traps of aging, I guess.  But it’s harmless, and feels good; self-indulgent, but stimulating. I’ve always been a reader, the first step in being a writer.  Growing up, … Continue reading →

So, we have another storm out there, and while the early track showed it making landfall right here, the latest shows it staying far offshore, but with the same arc as Dorian.  Hoping it skips the northern Bahamas, and us. … Continue reading →

  More hurricane minutiae, this time with a purpose.  Surfers love hurricanes, even old decrepit surfers, who can’t help themselves.  We see something form in the far Atlantic, or Caribbean, and we start envisioning what might come our way.  Of … Continue reading →

We got brushed by a major storm, and we’d like to make a few comparisons with other storms which came close.  Matthew came by considerably closer in 2016, and absolutely devastated our beach, washing out pieces of A1A and rearranging … Continue reading →

We’re all buttoned up here at The Little Hacienda, AKA The Little Bunker, but it looks like we may have dodged this bullet.  After several days over the Bahamas, Dorian finally started north and northwest this morning, crawling out at … Continue reading →

So, this amazing hurricane has essentially parked itself just east of Freeport in the Bahamas.  Showing one mph progress to the west until the 5 pm advisory, when it went stationary.  This is really good news for us, because the … Continue reading →