Where is Serenity

I worked for several years as a Divemaster at the Riding Rock Inn and Marina a small dive resort on the island of San Salvador in the Bahamas. I can remember walking to the marina in the morning to find a sailboat had arrived during the night. Or coming up from a dive to see a new sailboat anchoring in Cockburn Town bay. Living on a small out-island in the Bahamas seeing these boats come and go the sense of adventure was very real. I was living my own adventure at the time; taking people diving on the beautiful walls of San Salvador, but it is human nature to wonder what is just over the horizon. I would often sit on the porch of my villa just 10 feet from the beach, or at the Riding Rock Bar and stare out at the ocean, wondering what it would be like to approach a distant island after days at sea.

I had several opportunities to crew on various boats that had made port on San Salvador, but either because the situation was not quite right or I was having too much fun diving, I never made the jump. Still I had always thought at the time I would someday leave the island by sail.

Well you can probably guess that never happened. I did leave the island eventually, but is was by plane, and with a lovely new bride. My wife and I have built a good life and wonderful family together. And are living the American dream. But as anyone who has been around sailboats and the sea knows, there is another dream… A dream that involves a small boat and distant shores. A dream of casting off the landlines in search of adventure.