About Us... From working aboard the Portuguese tuna boats based out of Provincetown on the Cape to chasing giant marlin around the lagoon of Boar Bora to diving the reefs of the Caribbean, life on the ocean has provided the venue for Captain Dick Stevenson to experience adventures and exploits that are but dreams for little boys growing up.   Living in the islands is fabulous, far more exciting, exhilarating and invigorating than we will admit to. Time is endless and the opportunities to enjoy life appear over and over again, until you tire out. I left St Thomas after several years to return to the real world – hurricanes and girlfriends disappointed can create that response. Fort Lauderdale seemed a reasonable destination.   Stranded on the beach without a boat was an interesting experience – forces one to accept the realities being inflicted without the usual escape to the sea. Sitting there, wondering how one could endure this environment, up this beach walked a dazzling fantasy – a girl from Ipanema  - really. Beatriz Nieckele, late of the beaches of Rio, was an engineer and an artist that had moved to Florida with her daughter Priscila to find out if the American dream did indeed exist. We joined together to form Island Girl Publishing, a business of creating art reproductions for artists from their originals.   Nine years into this program, we have our printing facility here in Fort Lauderdale and now split our time between Florida and our real some days working like everyone else and the other days I am free to disrupt the lives of the lobsters and fish around all the Eastern Bahamas islands.