Heartbeat Adventures

Follow us as we conquer The Great Loop and earn the title of becoming a Looper.

The Great Loop is a continuous 6,000+ mile waterway that includes part of the Atlantic, Gulf Intracoastal Waterways, the Great Lakes, Canadian Heritage Canals, and the inland rivers of America’s heartland. Anyone who completes the journey is then named an official ‘Looper.’


Our Next Adventure Begins

When we set out on our Great Loop trip we kept ourselves open to living in another place other than Portland, OR. Several friends and fellow boaters h
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Spanish Wells

  I’d usually start with mentioning now many nights we spent at a stop but this stop in Spanish Wells keeps ticking forward. At the moment we are at 1
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Eleuthera

  We left the islands in the Exuma chain and headed 53 miles east to Eleuthera when the weather allowed us to move. Eleuthera is a long skinny island
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Exploring the Central Exumas

 We have spent the last couple of weeks bouncing around the central portion of the Exuma chain. We decided this year not to go as far south as Georget
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Cambridge to Highborne

  We left Cambridge Cay with Hemisphere and headed just over 20 miles south to Blackpoint where we stayed for 2 nights. Blackpoint is a friendly villa
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Bimini to Cambridge Cay

 We left Bimini with the intent of going straight through to the N Exumas / Wardrick Wells. Long story short it turn out the seas were a bit more roll
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Bimini

 We spent over a week at Bimini Sands Marina. There are not really any good anchoring spots for the wind strength/direction we had so we were thankful
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