GOBIGGETY.COM A GREAT TRAVEL BLOG!

LINNY DEVEAUX ON ONE OF HER TRIPS

I’ve been meaning to tell you about Bahamian Travel Blogger Linny Deveaux’s great travel blog Gobiggety.com!

Linny says on her blog: “The launching of goBiggety is in a way a look inside my travel diary, at the junction of island girl meets the world.  I want to use this blog to document life experiences, I hope never to forget. To fill its pages with the places I’ve been, but most importantly, the people I’ve met along the way.”

Her photography is awesome and her descriptions of places she has travelled to are compelling, informative and fascinating.

She also tempts subscribers to her youtube channel with delightful vlogs of places near and far that she has visited - GoBiggety on Youtube

Check Linny’s travel blog out and you will surely get the travel bug!

WE MADE IT THROUGH HURRICANE MATTHEW!

I thank God my family and I made it through the worst of Hurricane Matthew. It went from cat 3 to cat 4 while it was moving through New Providence island. We had sustained winds of 138 mph gusting to 167 mph! Matthew's speed has increased to 14 mph and it is heading towards the Berry Islands and Grand Bahama. We still have Tropical Storm force winds with heavy gusts and heavy rain. Our power isn't back on yet. I'm typing this with some difficulty on my phone. We are running around catching leaks! Eleven leaks so far and we are running out of receptacles! Sadly there are reports of many residents on N.P., some of whom didn't heed the warnings to evacuate, whose homes have been flooded. They are now waiting to be rescued. They are in low lying areas. My family and I are very fortunate.

HURRICANES AND MODERN TECHNOLOGY

It doesn’t seem that long ago that we would pour over a hurricane map provided in the food stores or in our newspapers and plot hurricanes by marking their progress with an x ! We would also follow the hurricane advisories on battery operated radios.

Now we receive hurricane tracking information regularly on television and via the internet. I was even able to add data to my “smart” phone, so that I can continue to use the internet throughout the hurricane “unless the whole island goes down”, the BTC technician advised me when he set it up on my phone.

We’ve come a long way, baby!

HURRICANES ARE NOTHING TO BE TRIFLED WITH!

Cleaning up after a Tropical Storm, Nassau, Bahamas

Hurricane Matthew has turned north towards The Bahamas! This is a dangerous hurricane and all of us here should be making the necessary preparations.

I experienced my first hurricane in The Bahamas at the beginning of September, 1965. I’d just arrived in Nassau and was sharing an apartment with two English girls and an Australian girl above the Verdant Gardens Coffee Shop on Dowdeswell Street.

It was right before I met Erskine. Later I discovered he had been just down the road on Armstrong Street, helping to put up his sisters’ storm shutters!

The girls and I were excited about the prospect of going through a hurricane. Naturally, I scribbled away in my notebook, recording the experience.

Two guys that we knew (not boyfriends) offered to camp out in our apartment and be of assistance if needed. The storm became pretty rough. I stood on the edge of the bathtub to look out of the window and saw the roof of a tall building on top of Collins Avenue flapping in the wind!

Betsy actually stalled over Nassau before it went on to inflict winds of up to 147 m.p.h. on Great Abaco Island. 

We came out of the hurricane unscathed with no damage – no thanks to the two guys who had brought a bottle of rum with them, consumed the whole bottle and passed out on our living room floor!