Current Rock of Residence:
New Providence, Bahamas
Island Girl Since:
2009
Originally Hails From:
Ireland
Hailing from Ireland, Cath has always lived on a rock but in 2009, that rock got a lot smaller (and a lot warmer) when she moved to New Providence in The Bahamas. Since then she’s learnt how to paddleboard, adopted two dogs, swum with sharks, figured out how to open a coconut, developed a taste for rum, bought a boat, sold a boat, met a manatee, and got married (side note: this might be the most important use of the Oxford Comma in history).
Cath earns her rum money writing for a living and when she’s not slaving away in an office without a view she’s having beach days, boat days, swim days and generally-anything-outdoors days. Since the island only has two seasons, Hot and Less Hot, the years go by quickly and while Cath doesn’t know if living on a rock will be a permanent thing, it certainly seems to be working out that way.
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This week we started our WWLOR Book Circle with a group of women from all over the world. Our first meeting was full of lively discussion. We all agreed that reading is like travel for the soul so I thought I would just refresh your memory with some great island reads...
Calling All Spring Breakers!
I know many of you are planning your Spring Break trips to the islands. Lucky you - the islands have missed you all!! It's always so fun getting ready for a beach vacation. We have some great products that have been rock tested listed on the website but I thought I...
Post Vacation Blues
So you've just returned to your island after a busy, bustling, beautiful vacation abroad. As you unpack your 500 suitcases of goodies (and your 8 weeks' worth of dirty laundry even though you were only away for 10 days ) you reminisce over the good times that were had...
If Once You Have Slept on An Island
A hundred year old poem that has stood the test of time... If once you have slept on an island You'll never be quite the same: You may look as you looked the day before And go by the same old name, You may bustle about in street and shop You may sit at home and sew,...
There’s a Rat in Mi Kitchen, what am I gonna do?
RATS… I think every rock has ‘em and if you don’t count yourself lucky!! I can’t stand them - from their beady little eyes to their gelatinous tail - yuck!! On my rock, you see them wandering around from time to time but as my husband would say in his English accent...
Link Up Local
Either you are into searching, scouting and finding out new, (yeah, new what??), new everything or you are not. I belong to the first category. For me part of living on a Rock is embracing the style/ways and quirkiness of that Rock. Having moved to a new Rock a year...
