SwimVacation

01/31/2025

Escape time.

Is it still January? How can that be? How many days are in this month, like 48? It’s been a tough stretch, but when the going gets tough, the tough go swimming! To assist in your escape, we’ve got a very limited number of spots on some really fun trips in 2025 and 2026, check them out below.

Head to www.swimvacation.com to check out these trips:

Greece - September 14-20, 2025 - 1 shared spot available

Turkey - September 20-27, 2025 - 2 spots available

Grenada to St. Vincent, November 2-8, 2025 - 4 spots available

Greece - September 13-19, 2026 - 4 spots available

St. Vincent - November 1-7, 2026 - 4 spots available

Heather and I love to talk about SwimVacation, so if you have any questions about any of our trips, don’t hesitate to reach out.

We can’t wait to swim with you!

Cheers,

Hopper - [email protected] (207) 975-5489

Heather - [email protected] (207) 720-0540

11/18/2024

Swimming under sail. What a fantastic way to wrap two weeks of swimming and sailing from Grenada to St. Vincent and back. Thank you to two weeks of guests who were game for adventures in new waters, and a crew that won’t give anything but the best. This is SwimVacation. See you in 2025! ❤️🇬🇩🇻🇨🧜‍♀️🧜‍♀️🧜🏻‍♂️🧜🏻‍♂️🧜🏻‍♂️🧜🏻‍♂️👮🏼‍♂️⛵️🏊‍♀️🏊‍♀️🏊‍♀️🏊‍♀️🏊‍♀️🏊‍♀️🏊‍♀️🏊‍♀️🏊‍♀️🏊‍♀️🏊🏻‍♂️🏊🏻‍♂️🏊🏻‍♂️🌴❤️

A flock of birds circled around the bay at Isle de Ronde this morning. They seemed unsettled, landing in the water, taking off, circling again. They looked like ducks, and paddled around like ducks, but they didn’t sound like ducks. Rather, they had a high-pitched whine of sorts. So two out of thr...

11/15/2024

When it comes to therapy, there’s all kinds. Thursday was full of currents that carried and pushed us. SwimVacation. ❤️🧜🏼‍♀️🧜🏻‍♂️🧜🏻‍♂️🧜🏻‍♂️🏊🏻‍♂️🏊🏻‍♂️🏊🏻‍♀️🏊🏻‍♀️🏊🏻‍♀️🏊🏻‍♀️🏊🏻‍♀️🇻🇨🇬🇩⛵️❤️

We love to swim around islands. It’s adventurous, and you never see the same thing twice. Today’s island was Petit Rameau, in the Tobago Cays. It’s got a couple of beaches and scrubby vegetation, and is surrounded by a reef.  I suggested we swim counter-clockwise, so that the first part o...

11/14/2024

Down a prop but up on experiences, Wednesday delivered in St. Vincent and the Grenadines. This is SwimVacation. ❤️🇻🇨🧜🏼‍♀️🧜🏻‍♂️🧜🏻‍♂️🧜🏻‍♂️🏊🏻‍♀️🏊🏻‍♀️🏊🏻‍♀️🏊🏻‍♀️🏊🏻‍♀️🏊🏻‍♂️🏊🏻‍♂️⛵️❤️

Waking at Bequia Island, we plotted a swim at a long, skinny part of the island with a nice reef and some very dramatic cliffs. This group is hitting their stride in the water now, and we are all swimming generally in the right direction. We stop once in a while and re-group, taking care not to take

11/13/2024

Tuesday brought a magical bat cave and a lobster dinner (thanks, Hopper!). Not a bad way to spend the day here in the Grenadines. ❤️🧜🏼‍♀️🧜🏻‍♂️🧜🏻‍♂️🧜🏻‍♂️🏊🏻‍♂️🏊🏻‍♂️🏊🏻‍♀️🏊🏻‍♀️🏊🏻‍♀️🏊🏻‍♀️🏊🏻‍♀️🇻🇨❤️

There’s something about bats. Mammals that fly. Nocturnal. Sleep upside-down. Faces only a mother could love, yet we also find them cute. We pulled into a little cove this morning on the west side of St. Vincent, about mid-way up the island, at its fattest part. We swam around the bay, checking ou...

11/12/2024

Not a bad case of the Mondays here in St. Vincent. A happy hill was our home for the day, without another boat in sight. We love isolation on SwimVacation. ❤️🇻🇨🧜🏼‍♀️🧜🏼‍♀️🧜🏻‍♂️🧜🏻‍♂️🏊🏻‍♀️🏊🏻‍♀️🏊🏻‍♀️🏊🏻‍♀️🏊🏻‍♀️🏊🏻‍♂️🏊🏻‍♂️⛵️🇻🇨❤️

Captain Jason yanked the hook early, and motored us to what he has described as one of the most beautiful places in the world, a strong statement to a group of very well seasoned travelers. This is SwimVacation’s first trip to St. Vincent and the Grenadines, and we’ve been relying  heavily

11/11/2024

A taste of St. Vincent island life on turnover day, and our new batch of guests are undeterred by a good soaker. We are on week two in St. Vincent & the Grenadines. This is SwimVacation. 🧜🏼‍♀️🧜🏼‍♀️🧜🏻‍♂️🧜🏻‍♂️🏊🏻‍♂️🏊🏻‍♂️🏊🏻‍♀️🏊🏻‍♀️🏊🏻‍♀️🏊🏻‍♀️🏊🏻‍♀️⛵️🇻🇨❤️

Lightning flashed and I could see John and Jason’s faces for an instant, wet in the pouring rain. The three of us were in a small dinghy in the pitch black in a ferocious storm. Wind howling, waves breaking, raining in heavy sheets, dinghy ½ filled with water. They were both grinning ear to ear w...

11/10/2024

Courage is feeling fear and doing it anyway. Our swimmers have it in spades. This was an amazing Friday in the Grenadines. This is SwimVacation. ❤️🇻🇨🧜🏼‍♀️🧜🏼‍♀️🧜🏻‍♂️🧜🏻‍♂️🏊🏻‍♀️🏊🏻‍♀️🏊🏻‍♀️🏊🏻‍♀️🏊🏻‍♀️🏊🏻‍♂️⛵️

One day in 2018 a registration came in for our BVI trip without either Hopper nor I having heard from the registrant. That’s pretty unusual for us, as most of our clients talk to at least one of us on the phone in advance of registering for a trip. They usually have lots of questions and we are al...

11/08/2024

Threading the needle to a new locale. SwimVacation is in beautiful Bequia. ❤️🇻🇨

The Tobago Cays Marine Park consists of a cluster of small, uninhabited islands that look like a place you’d want to be marooned if that was a thing that actually happened anymore.

11/07/2024

St. Vincent and the Grenadines has welcomed us with rays and turtles and glow tape. It’s good to be at sea. This is SwimVacation. ❤️🇻🇨

You can’t predict the size of a wave. And the only thing you can control is your response to it. This is true of the ocean. It’s also a good lesson in life. Samantha told me she likes getting tossed around in the ocean. She says after that, when she faces something rough, she knows what she can ...

11/06/2024

Put on your pink suit and swim. This is SwimVacation. 🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🇬🇩

It rained last night. Miriam and Myssie took in Alina and I which was very kind and totally beyond the call of guest duty but very much appreciated. Fitz stayed dry in the salon. All three of us slept like the dead. The rain cooled things off a touch, which no one complained about. Even the water w

11/05/2024

Monday we sailed out to where things start to get a little more wild. Catch up - we are already well into Tuesday! ❤️🇬🇩🧜🏼‍♀️🧜🏼‍♀️🧜‍♂️🧜‍♂️🏊🏻‍♀️🏊🏻‍♀️🏊🏻‍♀️🏊🏻‍♀️🏊🏻‍♀️🏊‍♂️👨‍✈️🧑🏻‍🍳❤️

Alina, Fitz and I slept in a triangle outside on the top deck last night, which was a tiny bit humid and dewy but also lovely and connective. It’s nice to feel like you’re earning an adventure with friends, and when I looked over at them sleeping soundly, I just felt really glad to be here. I sl...

11/05/2024

We are so remote tonight that there’s not enough signal to upload our blog! It’ll keep. For tonight, the stars. ❤️🧜🏼‍♀️🇬🇩✨❤️

11/04/2024

Sunday was hot and we are just getting our feet wet. Hot or not, it’s good to be in the salty sea. This was day one of our Grenada to St. Vincent adventure. This is SwimVacation. 🇬🇩🧜🏼‍♀️🧜🏼‍♀️🧜‍♂️🧜‍♂️🏊🏻‍♀️🏊🏻‍♀️🏊🏻‍♀️🏊🏻‍♀️🏊🏻‍♀️🏊‍♂️👨‍✈️🧑🏻‍🍳⛵️❤️

Through the blistering bright sun they came, our guests arrived and we exchanged excited, sweaty hugs before hurrying along the dock to yacht Cristophine. We’ve hosted all of these guests before and they are all pros, so we were able to cast off without much ado and get out to sea.

11/03/2024

SwimVacation crew is on island in Grenada! 24 hours of sweaty chaos goes into getting this yacht ready for go time. So good to be back. ❤️🇬🇩❤️

As we have written about often, more often recently, so many of the places we swim and love are on the front lines of weather that is becoming more severe, more frequently. This summer, Grenada, and specifically the island of Carriacou, was in the beeline of the monster hurricane Beryl. Our skipper

09/30/2024

Sometimes our final day in a place takes a little longer to process. Sometimes we need the distance of home to fully appreciate where we’ve been. Türkiye was generous with us. We certainly hope to be back. ❤️🇹🇷🧜🏽‍♀️🧜🏽‍♂️🧜🏽‍♂️⛵️❤️

One way to remember Teşekkür ederim, the words for thank you Turkish, is to say, appropriately, Tea, Sugar, A Dream.

09/27/2024

Thursday had castles and cats, ice cream and a turtle. Türkiye is making it hard to wrap this trip up. ❤️🇹🇷🧜🏽‍♀️🧜🏽‍♂️🧜🏽‍♂️🏊🏻‍♀️🏊🏻‍♀️🏊🏻‍♀️🏊🏻‍♀️🏊🏻‍♀️🏊🏻‍♀️🏊🏻‍♀️⛵️📷🏰🐈🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛🐢🫶🏽

I haven’t said much about this boat. It is, by far, the biggest, most elegant vessel I have ever had the pleasure to bring our guests on. La Mia Stella is a 108-foot long Turkish Gulet, a traditional 2-masted sailing vessel popular on the Turkish Coast. They used to haul goods around the Mediterra...

09/26/2024

Ruins? Did you say ruins?! Ok. We will swim around two islands to see them. And then we’ll eat and nap and swim some more. Oh ok and some dancing. Wednesday was wild in Türkiye. This is SwimVacation. 🇹🇷🧜🏽‍♀️🧜🏽‍♂️🧜🏽‍♂️🏊🏻‍♀️🏊🏻‍♀️🏊🏻‍♀️🏊🏻‍♀️🏊🏻‍♀️🏊🏻‍♀️🏊🏻‍♀️🫶🏽❤️

It’s so rare when you can swim in the ocean and see the bottom at 70 feet and the surface is like glass and there are interesting things to see both underwater and on land.  Yet here we find ourselves at 2 little islands, Topak Adasi and Kara Ada, with those exact conditions. I swam out fel