Go where the grid ends.
Field guides to the cays, anchorages and hideaways where the power lines stop, the water goes gin-clear, and the only schedule is the tide.
About the guides Where the ferry runs twice a week.
Off Grid Caribbean is a working guide to the quieter side of the islands: the cays you reach by dinghy, the bays with more pelicans than people, and the practical know-how it takes to stay a while once the pavement ends.
Where to go
Islands, cays and anchorages worth the extra leg.
How to get there
Ferries, puddle-jumpers, charters and your own keel.
How to live there
Solar, water, provisions and the art of doing without.
Four islands to start with.
Each one is a little harder to reach than the last resort you stayed at. That is exactly the point.
The Exumas
A chain of cays and sandbars, home to the Exuma Cays Land & Sea Park.
Guide in progress →Culebra
Sea grape, soft sand and Flamenco Beach, a ferry ride off the main island.
Guide in progress →St. John
No airport, and most of the island is national park. Coral Bay is the quiet side.
Guide in progress →Jost Van Dyke
No airport here either. You arrive by boat and leave with sand in everything.
Guide in progress →
Rodney Bay, St. LuciaDrop anchor. Stay awhile.
The most off-grid address in the Caribbean floats. We cover the anchorages, the passages between them, and what it really takes to live aboard when the nearest marina is an island away.
- Anchorages worth the passage →
- Chartering vs. owning →
- Dinghy-only beaches →
- Weather, seasons & hurricane holes →
Power, water, provisions.
The unglamorous systems that make the glamorous part possible. Straight talk, real gear, no fluff.
Power
Sizing solar and batteries for island sun, salt air and the occasional week of cloud.
Solar · Storage · BackupWater
Rain catchment, cisterns and watermakers: how islanders have always done it, and how it is done now.
Catchment · Cisterns · WatermakersProvisions
Stocking up when the mail boat is late: markets, fishing, and what to bring from home.
Markets · Fishing · Stocking upSleep somewhere with no lobby.
Solar cottages, island rentals and camp-on-the-beach spots, picked because they are hard to find, not because they paid to be here.
Where the power lines stop and the water turns clear, that is where the good part starts.Off Grid Caribbean — Island Guides
Island notes, sent at sunset.
New guides, anchorages and field notes, delivered occasionally and never spammy. The first issue is being written now.
Launching soon