Watching Krispen feed the birds and fish.

Ripper took these, in front of the house.

So much fun having Ripper around. I'm getting fly fishing lessons. The day ended with tail gate porkchops.

The moon over Marsh Harbour last night, then over Great Cistern this morning. Beautiful!

Ripper just got here from New Orleans. Didn't take the boys long to get in the water.

Curlytails are out in force.

Dutch sailor Carolijn Brouwer has become the first woman to win the round-the-world Volvo Ocean Race following a dramatic finish in Scheveningen on Sunday. Brouwer’s Dongfeng Race Team passed Team Brunel in the final hour of the last stage from Gothenburg to The Hague on Sunday, denying her countryman Bouwe Bekking a first victory in eight attempts.

Linda, look at your beautiful orchid.

Puntgave boats, hundreds of crates full of pottery, thousands of mammoth bones, masses of Roman roof tiles. The largest archaeological site in the Netherlands, in Gelderland, is incredibly rich. "We will soon get 200,000 finds."

We have already found twelve ships here. From Roman times to the Middle Ages, including a Late Roman canoe, which we did not yet know in the Netherlands, and an early medieval barge from the tenth, eleventh century of more than twenty meters long, "says Nils Kerkhoven of the archaeological working group. Mesh. Here, that is an area of ​​275 hectares on the Maasdijk between Dreumel and Alphen. "This is the largest archaeological site in the Netherlands," says Kerkhoven.

Hi mam!

Betsy and Tom are on their Canadian island again.

UKATANI, the family beach house in Tanganjika, Africa. And...the new UKATANI, the house I hope to share with lots of family!

Harriet sent these from Australia. Look how grown up Justin is..

Can't stop looking at the photos..

Sitting on the porch, watching the storms roll in and a rainbow popped up!

Mam with her friends. Enjoying the sunshine.