Island Journeys' logo is the symbol of an area of North Eleuthera called the Devil’s Backbone. This is where two different sea currents meet and strenuously oppose each other. For a traveller, this brief journey can be very unnerving. For a short time there is constant tossing and heaving of the boat. Soon, it calms down and the traveller is enjoying some of the best vistas in the world.  This scenery is not unlike Bob and my journey when we founded Island Journeys. Bob and I measured our bottom line very differently. Nevertheless, neither of us was less committed to the ideal of making life better for others. The creation of Island Journeys is the direct meeting of two streams that came together to create something beautiful. Bob had visited Eleuthera and Andros to review the work that I carried out with Methodist Habitat and wanted to professionalize it and increase its ability to offer hope to the world. His vision was to eventually operate in many countries around the world. We got our chance after the passing of Hurricanes Frances and Jeanne. We decided it was time to incorporate our efforts and begin a more formal movement of volunteers to a place of need and a place where they could experience personal transformation.  
Over a few cigars and a few bowls of stew fish in my mother-in-law’s backyard on Eleuthera, Island Journeys was born. Needless to say, Bob took on the majority of the incorporation process as I went about recruiting teams to come and work on West End, Grand Bahama after the passing of Hurricanes Frances and Jeanne.   Bob invested his time and financial resources to ensure that we got a great foundation. And we did. Within a few months of our incorporating, the 2004 tsunami hit the South East Pacific. I responded on behalf of New Providence Community Church for two months. During this time, Bob hired our first administrator and set up our office. 
Over the next year and a half Bob held the helm of Island Journeys as I continued to offer
professional assistance to other international organizations responding to disasters.  
Eventually the fatigue of responding to disaster got the better of me and I took a break. By this time
Bob had gotten the dreaded news of his cancer and we both had little energy to do what was needed
to bring back the momentum we once had in creating Island Journeys.
Island Journeys fizzled for a while. Earlier this year Bob contacted me and informed me that he was
resigning as secretary of Island Journeys. For a while I refused to accept it. I thought we might be
able to go back and make IJ what we had intended it to be. On my last visit with him he turned over
the official seal and incorporation documents to me and it was only then I realized how grave his
illness had become. Because, if anyone knows Bob, he always saw himself as the “Keeper of the
Seal”. When I got the news of His passing from Marsha, I was prepared and right away knew what I
had to do. I am going to miss my friend Bob. The only real thing I can do to honour his memory and
hard work is ensure that Island Journeys continues to carry out its mission.

        Thanks for giving us a good foundation Bob.
        Shaun Ingraham, Island Journeys