Carmen M Alex

Image of Chatham Bay

February 25, 2022

Our First Day on Union Island

Union Island is probably best known for its insane kite surfing possibilities, its full moon parties, and Happy Island. We sailed into Clifton Harbour…

November 18, 2020

Update on Copyright Protection for Artists: The CASE Act of 2019

There are just a few weeks left in this Congress to pass the CASE Act. The bill passed the House by an overwhelming majority….

August 23, 2020

Viento Azul: Sailing Home After a Long Summer

Friday, August 21; Christmas Cove, Greater St James, USVI This is it. This is goodbye, I thought at 5:30 am. The sun hadn’t come…

Image of Christmas Cove and cyclone Isaias track

July 28, 2020

Sailing Viento Azul: Isaias coming

Soon-to-be-named cyclone Isaias has been a tricky fellow, quietly drifting off the west coast of Africa, hiding under a layer of African dust, and…

NASA astronaut image of ISS and milky way

July 25, 2020

From Beginning to End

Look! Up! Up there in the night sky over St John! See the Milky Way? Spanning across the firmament, like a heavenly bridge, from…

Green Sea Turtle

July 22, 2020

Island of the Green Sea Turtles

Ancient reptiles, ocean dwellers, air-breathers, survivors… so many things describe sea turtles but none can capture the magic of meeting one in person. Or…

Global Covid Spread

April 10, 2020

COVID-19: What the numbers (don’t) tell us

The globally reported COVID-19 data[1], published online by the medical journal The Lancet on Feb 19, 2020, tells part of the story of this…

image of coronavirus emerging from cells

March 21, 2020

COVID-19 Information

Transmission | Prevention | Symptoms | Treatments | Vaccination | Virology (Last update: Thu, Mar 26, 2020, 14:53 EDT) COVID-19 is the disease caused…

August 28, 2019

How to Tame a Stingray

This post could have been titled in many ways, such as “Don’t try this at home” or “How to train your pet Stingray” or…

June 7, 2019

Sailing Viento Azul: Scout trips in the Sea of Abaco

On Saturday, May 25th, Scout Troop 686 arrived from Littleton, Colorado to experience a week of high adventure on our catamaran. The first couple…

June 6, 2019

Sailing Viento Azul: from Islamorada to the Sea of Abaco

We’d been sailing Viento Azul for only sixteen days but it felt like a month or longer. I’d nearly forgotten about our topside home…

February 12, 2019

Let’s maybe call it what it is: The Anthropocene

A week ago, I received an email from Prof. Sklair, a researcher from the UK, asking me if my website GREENDEX.ORG is using the…