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Stephen Roper

Travel

St. Thomas, USVI

St. Thomas is the gateway island of the U.S. Virgin Islands in the Caribbean but we used it as our launching point to the British Virgin Islands and to enjoy our last two days in the islands. The territorial…

Sailing & Scuba Diving Travel

The Wreck of The Rhone

The Wreck of The Rhone lies within the Rhone National Park off the western coast of Salt Island in the British Virgin Islands. The area is teeming heavily with marine life and it’s common to see stingrays, turtles, sharks…

Sailing & Scuba Diving

British Virgin Islands

A year after Yim and I left Belize, our friends, Stu and Fran, who chartered Two If By Sea, had also left and made their way to the British Virgin Islands, where they established their chartering operation again and…

Hiking Travel

Bruce Caves

The Bruce Caves were formed by the wave action of post-glacial Lake Algonquin – 7,000 to 8,000 years ago. The cave formations are dramatic illustrations of the weathering processes and impresses upon us the magnitude of the post-glacial lake…

Travel

New Orleans

On November of 2015, we decided to take an impromptu getaway to New Orleans and we had a ball. What a place. It was impossible to visit without staying up much too late, drinking too much and listening to…

Hiking Travel

Tobermory

This post spans almost 9 years of hiking around Tobermory on The Bruce Trail and showcases a bit of every season. Tobermory is located at the top of the Bruce Peninsula and offers visitors fresh, clean air, gorgeous scenery,…

Hiking Travel

Lions Head

Lion’s Head is a small port village, located on the shores of Isthmus Bay in the upper part of the Bruce Peninsula.  Surrounded by beautiful limestone cliffs which, when viewed from Georgian Bay, resemble the head of a lion,…