SwimVacation

04/08/2025

On SwimVacation, we value the opportunity for our guests to really get to know a place. Today in the Vallée de Mai, our swimmers took to the forest and learned even more about how special the is. ❤️🧜🏼‍♀️🧜🏼‍♀️🧜🏻‍♂️🏊🏻‍♀️🏊🏻‍♀️🏊🏻‍♀️🏊🏻‍♀️🏊🏻‍♀️🏊🏻‍♀️🏊🏻‍♀️⛵️🌴🌴🌴🌴🌴🇸🇨❤️

Ten days is a long time to stay at sea and swim twice a day. Don’t get me wrong - no one is crying in their goggles here. But doing a 10 day trip means it’s important to shake things up a little, perhaps with one or two land excursions. Fortunately, the Seychelles has what we need. 

04/08/2025

Lately
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04/07/2025

Monday made memories we won’t soon forget. gave us the gifts today. 🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟❤️🇸🇨🧜🏼‍♀️🧜🏼‍♀️🧜🏻‍♂️🏊🏻‍♀️🏊🏻‍♀️🏊🏻‍♀️🏊🏻‍♀️🏊🏻‍♀️🏊🏻‍♀️🏊🏻‍♀️⛵️🌺🇸🇨

Last night when I popped out of my hatch to p*e, I looked up and the sky took my breath away. I saw the galactic core of the Milky Way clearly, arcing across the sky. I sometimes can see this at home in Maine, on summer nights at my family camp on Moosehead Lake, far from any light pollution. When I

04/06/2025

Grand Soeur gave good reef, turtles and more. It was Big Sister Sunday on SwimVacation . ❤️🧜🏼‍♀️🧜🏼‍♀️🧜🏻‍♂️🏊🏻‍♀️🏊🏻‍♀️🏊🏻‍♀️🏊🏻‍♀️🏊🏻‍♀️🏊🏻‍♀️🏊🏻‍♀️⛵️🦈🐠🐢🇸🇨

First some stats: At the halfway point  of this trip, we've been through 120 eggs and 140 litres of drinking water. If Lou Lou puts a salad on the table, it’s gone in seconds. Dessert? Yes please. This crowd is into eating healthy and well. We love it. Lou Lou has been absolutely crushing

04/05/2025

Old tortoises, baby sharks, life finds a way. This was a rare Saturday on . This is the wild nature of . ❤️🇸🇨🧜🏼‍♀️🧜🏼‍♀️🧜🏻‍♂️🏊🏻‍♀️🏊🏻‍♀️🏊🏻‍♀️🏊🏻‍♀️🏊🏻‍♀️🏊🏻‍♀️🏊🏻‍♀️⛵️🐢🦈❤️

Lou Lou has been bringing my morning coffee to my little forepeak berth and when she presents it she gives me a BTS morning news brief. She updates me on what’s gone wrong or what needs doing or what minor mishap had her and Richie up in the night. These things are real occurrences in some state o...

04/04/2025

A fever of eagle rays and a blingy party? It’s Friday in the and SwimVacation is leaning into it. ❤️🇸🇨🧜🏼‍♀️🧜🏼‍♀️🧜🏻‍♂️🏊🏻‍♀️🏊🏻‍♀️🏊🏻‍♀️🏊🏻‍♀️🏊🏻‍♀️🏊🏻‍♀️🏊🏻‍♀️

I woke to a splashing kerfuffle right outside the side hatch of my tiny coffin berth. It sounded like a struggle. At first I wondered if skipper Romesie was futzing with the anchor. No. I heard no breathing, and certainly no swearing. I started recording video on my phone and stuck my hand out the s

04/03/2025

Our fish sighting list is growing, and these fish formed a tighter school today. Thursday in the . ❤️🇸🇨🧜🏼‍♀️🧜🏼‍♀️🧜🏻‍♂️🏊🏻‍♀️🏊🏻‍♀️🏊🏻‍♀️🏊🏻‍♀️🏊🏻‍♀️🏊🏻‍♀️🏊🏻‍♀️⛵️🐢🐠🐠🐠🐠🐠🐠🐠🐠🐠❤️

I woke to a bit of commotion and a cryptic text from Miriam with some emojis that were too tiny for me to make out first thing in the morning before my eyes come to focus. Our ever capable Skipper, Richie was off to a bit of a rough start on the day, as his first order of business was to manage a pr

04/02/2025

Just a few highlights from our wild Wednesday in 🇸🇨

04/02/2025

https://www.swimvacation.com/blog/2025/4/2/wednesday-chats-among-the-rocks

On our normal length trips, Wednesday is usually a tipping point. On this special adventure, we are just getting started. This was our Wednesday in the . Hard to imagine stuffing one more photo worthy moment in. 🇸🇨🧜🏼‍♀️🧜🏼‍♀️🧜🏻‍♂️🏊🏻‍♀️🏊🏻‍♀️🏊🏻‍♀️🏊🏻‍♀️🏊🏻‍♀️🏊🏻‍♀️🏊🏻‍♀️⛵️🐠🐢🪨🧗🏽‍♀️🌊⛈️🌅🥗🍨❤️

Well hello there, again, Seychelles. I remember you. I remember you can be wild and bumpy. I remember your blue depths can be clear and inspiring. I remember your wildlife is weird and wonderful. I remember you are capable of an impressive weather tantrum. And I remember that your rocks - your gorg

04/01/2025

Half way around the world is a long way to go. The spade fish and Emperor angelfish are a hint that it just might be worth it. We are pacing ourselves on day one here in , excited for the days to come.
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Well as predicted yesterday was a full court press by our tight crew, though we hadn’t counted on the torrential rain. This cooled things very slightly, and dampened things quite considerably. We managed somehow to move our bags from apartment to boat in a minor rain spell, and actually managed to...

03/30/2025

Starting our 2025 season with a return to this wild and distant Eden. Today was crew bonding and reorienting to the sites and sounds of an island we’ve traveled for days to reach. Tomorrow will be full press to be ready for our guests. What do you have in store for us this time, Seychelles? 🇸🇨🧜🏼‍♀️🧜🏼‍♀️🧜🏻‍♂️👨🏻‍✈️🧑🏻‍✈️🧑🏻‍✈️🦇🪨🪨🪨🇸🇨

Back in June of 2022 we took on our most distant and remote SwimVacation yet - to the utterly isolated island nation of Seychelles. About 700 miles northeast of Madagascar and 1000 miles east of Africa, this archipelago is known for its lush, tropical beauty and wild diversity of marine life. During

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...