Into the Land of Coconut Dreams: A Travel Log, A Sea Story, and a Passage in Time; Mostly True
Bill Hezlep, a former Naval Officer, and a former professional geographer and cartographer for the United States Department of State, first went to sea, at seventeen, aboard a square rigged school ship. Since 1994, with his shipmate and partner in adventure, Betty, he has lived aboard a series of boats: a sea going thirty-six foot ketch, an iron hulled Dutch canal cargo barge, and several power boats, including a Maine lobster boat. Bill and Betty, aboard the latest M/V Walkabout, continue to explore the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the United States, the inland waterways of the United States and Canada, and the islands of the Bahamas.