Saturday, May 10. 2008
Going big for the last day!
We have had a hectic few day, yesterday, we snorkelled and walked the beach of Smugglers Cove, made it over to the caves (some had a snooze along the way!)
The guys had a huge snorkel over their with Brent, they must have been gone an hour!
Here they are getting a tow back with the dingy!
We sailed, so every one could have a snooze and made our way to Benures Bay, one of my new favorite spots and for a treat Bazza and Richie took the boys fishing in the Bingo Bus, they were successful!!!!!!! Heres Bob and his barracuda
In both fish pictures, look behind the fish, is that a bottle of vodka??
There was more fishing after dinner, quite a few tarpon hooked, none quite landed though!!
Which brings me to today, the last day, so we have to go big! I fed them all a hearty breakfast of my giant mutant pancakes, just to give them energy for the day, they were off kayaking and snorkelling to try to wear them off
Heres the snorkel boys, all ready to go
Kerry got a good picture of this cute turtle who had been circling the boat all morning
and a little ray
We had a sail and fish and we hooked something BIG! Bob was straight on it, here he is in action
We figure the fish shot down into the reef and by the time we had got sails down and stopped boats from driving over our fishing lines, we lost it! I would like to have seen what it was, it was big!
After all the mayhem, we wound up at Salt Island, Man Head Point, for a fabulous snorkel and the crew all went diving, it is the most interesting little dive, with the most diverse fish life, especially as there is no coral reef, heres a few of my pictures....
These are 2 different sting rays I found
There is a scrappy bit of reef in the middle of the bay, the fish life on it is amazing, the yellow tail snappers always manage to get themselves in the picture though!
2 grumpy groupers
and a pretty juvenille French angel fish
The guys had a huge snorkel over their with Brent, they must have been gone an hour!
Here they are getting a tow back with the dingy!
We sailed, so every one could have a snooze and made our way to Benures Bay, one of my new favorite spots and for a treat Bazza and Richie took the boys fishing in the Bingo Bus, they were successful!!!!!!! Heres Bob and his barracuda
In both fish pictures, look behind the fish, is that a bottle of vodka??
There was more fishing after dinner, quite a few tarpon hooked, none quite landed though!!
Which brings me to today, the last day, so we have to go big! I fed them all a hearty breakfast of my giant mutant pancakes, just to give them energy for the day, they were off kayaking and snorkelling to try to wear them off
Heres the snorkel boys, all ready to go
Kerry got a good picture of this cute turtle who had been circling the boat all morning
and a little ray
We had a sail and fish and we hooked something BIG! Bob was straight on it, here he is in action
We figure the fish shot down into the reef and by the time we had got sails down and stopped boats from driving over our fishing lines, we lost it! I would like to have seen what it was, it was big!
After all the mayhem, we wound up at Salt Island, Man Head Point, for a fabulous snorkel and the crew all went diving, it is the most interesting little dive, with the most diverse fish life, especially as there is no coral reef, heres a few of my pictures....
These are 2 different sting rays I found
There is a scrappy bit of reef in the middle of the bay, the fish life on it is amazing, the yellow tail snappers always manage to get themselves in the picture though!
2 grumpy groupers
and a pretty juvenille French angel fish
Friday, May 9. 2008
Days off in the middle of a charter!
Well most crews would be outrageously jealous after we got to go take a day off right in the middle of a charter! It was like Christmas! We packed our bags, got some tanks and off we boldly went! Although not before making Bob his breakfast request of a slippery nipple!
We took the "Bingo Bus" over to Tobago, we have never been there before, so always exciting! We found a good looking dive spot and off we went! It was fabulous, lots of big stuff, barracuda, horse eye jacks and mackrel,I also managed to get below 100 feet! We should have had a fishing rod with us we might have finally caught something for the boat! We both took lots of pictures, heres my barracuda
this is a Richie Horse eye Jack (yes we are having photo wars now he has his new fancy camera!)
Rich also found this cute blenny
As we came up from the dive, there was indeed Promenade circling our little boat, trying to see what we were up too! We had a sun bathe to warm back up, had a quick read (about Belize! I think this will be our next holiday destination!) and off we went, not before getting the frozen coffees from a very kind Kerry!
We debated where to head for lunch and settled on Cane Garden, it meant a small swim ashore, but I braved the cold waters for lunch! I also managed to do a bit of shopping to! It was then off for the second dive, we decided on Brewers bay as it was just around the corner, there was a boat on our usual spot, but on the far side of the bay was a buoy, so we headed for that and had another new dive, this was great too, lots of big boulders and anchors?? Lots of angel fish on this site too
Heres Richie squeezing through a crack in the rocks
and a cute little grouper
So those were my pictures, Rich also got an angel fish
He also found the smallest bleny I have ever seen, it was as small as a hair off of your head! I don't know how he even saw it.
Our final stop for the day was Soapers Hole, bit more shopping, but nothing really took my eye, we caught up with Promenade there, the girls also wanted to shop, so we grabbed a couple more tanks and headed to Thatch for a final last dive, 3 in one day!
The last picture from there, the tiniest butterfly fish I have ever seen, it was the size of your pinky finger nail!
We took the "Bingo Bus" over to Tobago, we have never been there before, so always exciting! We found a good looking dive spot and off we went! It was fabulous, lots of big stuff, barracuda, horse eye jacks and mackrel,I also managed to get below 100 feet! We should have had a fishing rod with us we might have finally caught something for the boat! We both took lots of pictures, heres my barracuda
this is a Richie Horse eye Jack (yes we are having photo wars now he has his new fancy camera!)
Rich also found this cute blenny
As we came up from the dive, there was indeed Promenade circling our little boat, trying to see what we were up too! We had a sun bathe to warm back up, had a quick read (about Belize! I think this will be our next holiday destination!) and off we went, not before getting the frozen coffees from a very kind Kerry!
We debated where to head for lunch and settled on Cane Garden, it meant a small swim ashore, but I braved the cold waters for lunch! I also managed to do a bit of shopping to! It was then off for the second dive, we decided on Brewers bay as it was just around the corner, there was a boat on our usual spot, but on the far side of the bay was a buoy, so we headed for that and had another new dive, this was great too, lots of big boulders and anchors?? Lots of angel fish on this site too
Heres Richie squeezing through a crack in the rocks
and a cute little grouper
So those were my pictures, Rich also got an angel fish
He also found the smallest bleny I have ever seen, it was as small as a hair off of your head! I don't know how he even saw it.
Our final stop for the day was Soapers Hole, bit more shopping, but nothing really took my eye, we caught up with Promenade there, the girls also wanted to shop, so we grabbed a couple more tanks and headed to Thatch for a final last dive, 3 in one day!
The last picture from there, the tiniest butterfly fish I have ever seen, it was the size of your pinky finger nail!
Thursday, May 8. 2008
We suck as fishermen..
We used to think we were pretty good! BUT, we have always had bad luck with these guests on board! There is NO full moon, we have the right bait, we have trolled around some of the best fishing spots in the BVI, and our sum total is two little jacks and two little squirrelfish! Tonight it was Tarpon about 6, Promenade fishermen 0! Tarpons spit out the hooks left and right..
However, they could have caught a bird or two!
One of the first things every little charter captain learns, when they are about 6, is DON'T feed the birds!! We will have these billion birds following us around and sitting on our boat crapping and yelling for food for the next 5 months. We know, we have had it happen before! Must be something to do with the fact that we are no good at fishing lately!
Yesterday we stopped off the corner of Steele Point to do a dive, have not dove on that side before. There was more angelfish then I think I have seen anywhere else!
And some nice anemone, which are about my favorite thing to take a picture of, I think I like all the colors
This morning, we told Richard and Lisa that they could take the power boat out for the day and do some dives, and we would run the charter, it really is not necessary for us to have 5 crew members on board here! Lisa had everything ready and was ready to totter off right after breakfast! We decided to go down and see what we saw for birds and try and troll around Tobago, so off we go, only to come around the corner on Tobago and who do we see? The Bingo Bus! With the divers!!
Lisa, being smarter then the average bear, figured about mid morning was moccha frappucino time on the boat and pulled up long enough to grab those! Can't even get rid of them for the day!
I was quite ambitious this morning and made a nice fresh bread shaped like a turtle for lunch! I think we mostly ate bread and butter for lunch!
It was good! Then we had a request for some shopping over at Sopers Hole, so off we go. It was the typical after lunch run, everyone is full, had a drink or two, had a snorkel and then something strange happened. My husband picked up my camera and took some shots!! Very unusual. This is his view for the sail over to Sopers this afternoon!
I am not sure there was anyone left awake!
It was quite amusing over at Tobago, someone lost a hat overboard, and we told B to jump in and rescue it (I believe it was some type of man overboard drill!) Unfortunately, he had to fight with the gulls for the hat! They wanted it as well, but B was victorious in the end.
It was Bazzas cocktail hour tonight, and he did a "Survivor" type game with them. The one question that stuck out in my head was the combined age of everyone on the boat. it was 809!!
Bazza and I must have really brought down the average though! Ha.
Here is a few more underwater pictures. A nice little cow fish
A fish who was determined to protect his eggs and kept on running right up to me.
And a nice little puffer fish!
Before dinner is when we caught our two little jacks, and then we had a great steak dinner tonight!
Before we attempted to catch Tarpon. We did have the pleasure of watching Eagle Rays swim into our lights at the back of the boat, that was nice. I saw this Ray in the water today..
That is all, it is almost midnight and time to go to bed!
However, they could have caught a bird or two!
One of the first things every little charter captain learns, when they are about 6, is DON'T feed the birds!! We will have these billion birds following us around and sitting on our boat crapping and yelling for food for the next 5 months. We know, we have had it happen before! Must be something to do with the fact that we are no good at fishing lately!
Yesterday we stopped off the corner of Steele Point to do a dive, have not dove on that side before. There was more angelfish then I think I have seen anywhere else!
And some nice anemone, which are about my favorite thing to take a picture of, I think I like all the colors
This morning, we told Richard and Lisa that they could take the power boat out for the day and do some dives, and we would run the charter, it really is not necessary for us to have 5 crew members on board here! Lisa had everything ready and was ready to totter off right after breakfast! We decided to go down and see what we saw for birds and try and troll around Tobago, so off we go, only to come around the corner on Tobago and who do we see? The Bingo Bus! With the divers!!
Lisa, being smarter then the average bear, figured about mid morning was moccha frappucino time on the boat and pulled up long enough to grab those! Can't even get rid of them for the day!
I was quite ambitious this morning and made a nice fresh bread shaped like a turtle for lunch! I think we mostly ate bread and butter for lunch!
It was good! Then we had a request for some shopping over at Sopers Hole, so off we go. It was the typical after lunch run, everyone is full, had a drink or two, had a snorkel and then something strange happened. My husband picked up my camera and took some shots!! Very unusual. This is his view for the sail over to Sopers this afternoon!
I am not sure there was anyone left awake!
It was quite amusing over at Tobago, someone lost a hat overboard, and we told B to jump in and rescue it (I believe it was some type of man overboard drill!) Unfortunately, he had to fight with the gulls for the hat! They wanted it as well, but B was victorious in the end.
It was Bazzas cocktail hour tonight, and he did a "Survivor" type game with them. The one question that stuck out in my head was the combined age of everyone on the boat. it was 809!!
Bazza and I must have really brought down the average though! Ha.
Here is a few more underwater pictures. A nice little cow fish
A fish who was determined to protect his eggs and kept on running right up to me.
And a nice little puffer fish!
Before dinner is when we caught our two little jacks, and then we had a great steak dinner tonight!
Before we attempted to catch Tarpon. We did have the pleasure of watching Eagle Rays swim into our lights at the back of the boat, that was nice. I saw this Ray in the water today..
That is all, it is almost midnight and time to go to bed!
Wednesday, May 7. 2008
Blogger Loulou here!
I have a lot more bits and bobs for you, I found a heap of pictures on one of the cameras, so a mixed batch for you! First of all some pictures from the other day at the Baths!
Very cute! Then moving on to last night, the yummy lemon drops, here we are, all the girls
Michael Beans was as fantastic as ever, not often we all get to go see him!
The boys!
Today, was a lazy day, it started with a snorkel at Monkey Point, which was fabulous, there were tarpon
A big old turtle
and a big old school of blue tang, very pretty with all the different shades of blue!
Then a spinaker sail down to Josh
Where some hard core relaxing took place on the power lounger!
The day was topped off nicely with a shot game!
Very cute! Then moving on to last night, the yummy lemon drops, here we are, all the girls
Michael Beans was as fantastic as ever, not often we all get to go see him!
The boys!
Today, was a lazy day, it started with a snorkel at Monkey Point, which was fabulous, there were tarpon
A big old turtle
and a big old school of blue tang, very pretty with all the different shades of blue!
Then a spinaker sail down to Josh
Where some hard core relaxing took place on the power lounger!
The day was topped off nicely with a shot game!
Happy AAARRRR
Probably gives a pretty good idea of where we were last night then!
To start this story right, by the time Bazza and i returned in the afternoon from a dive, the guests were chanting "Lemon Drops! Lemon Drops!" (jane) I did not even have time to get changed before it was vodka shots on the back deck, with lemon and sugar. They were actually pretty good and it set everyone up fine for Michael Beans!
Medium sized crowd, but we made up for the low numbers! Here is the happy little group
I am not sure HOW Richard and Lisa managed to get shots of rum before the show even started, but obviously they have an inside connection!
Our boys, always so helpful to everyone even when it comes to helping others!
It must have been a pretty good joke, looking at Dans face. I think it had something to do with a little ditty that started "Bang Bang LULU"...and I will get killed if I say any more!
george and Jane looked like a couple on their honeymoon
and george was our designated conch blower. He came in second, but personally we think he was robbed!
The official Pirate Flag!
And our group singing along to "sailaway"
There is always the pirates toasts...
And by the time we returned to the boat, everyone had group lemon shots with dinner and then the boys stood on the back deck TRYING to catch ANYTHING never mind a Tarpon for hours and it did not happen. I am sure there was no shortage of liquor consumed yesterday anyways!
and a picture of the YUMMY Pizza we had at lunch yesterday!
I know we had more news, but it might have to wait for the other blogger, I had the pleasure of going to the doctor today. We only had to wait three hours before we got in! Then by the time we went to the pharmacy and did a short dive before finding the boat, the day was gone, so I am not sure what the boat did for play time today!
I did take this picture of a hole on waterfront drive, as there is some controversy going on around town, as supposedly there is a 7 story building going in there and it will totally block the splendid view from the Bougainveilla Clinic and that is kind of a historic building here!
To start this story right, by the time Bazza and i returned in the afternoon from a dive, the guests were chanting "Lemon Drops! Lemon Drops!" (jane) I did not even have time to get changed before it was vodka shots on the back deck, with lemon and sugar. They were actually pretty good and it set everyone up fine for Michael Beans!
Medium sized crowd, but we made up for the low numbers! Here is the happy little group
I am not sure HOW Richard and Lisa managed to get shots of rum before the show even started, but obviously they have an inside connection!
Our boys, always so helpful to everyone even when it comes to helping others!
It must have been a pretty good joke, looking at Dans face. I think it had something to do with a little ditty that started "Bang Bang LULU"...and I will get killed if I say any more!
george and Jane looked like a couple on their honeymoon
and george was our designated conch blower. He came in second, but personally we think he was robbed!
The official Pirate Flag!
And our group singing along to "sailaway"
There is always the pirates toasts...
And by the time we returned to the boat, everyone had group lemon shots with dinner and then the boys stood on the back deck TRYING to catch ANYTHING never mind a Tarpon for hours and it did not happen. I am sure there was no shortage of liquor consumed yesterday anyways!
and a picture of the YUMMY Pizza we had at lunch yesterday!
I know we had more news, but it might have to wait for the other blogger, I had the pleasure of going to the doctor today. We only had to wait three hours before we got in! Then by the time we went to the pharmacy and did a short dive before finding the boat, the day was gone, so I am not sure what the boat did for play time today!
I did take this picture of a hole on waterfront drive, as there is some controversy going on around town, as supposedly there is a 7 story building going in there and it will totally block the splendid view from the Bougainveilla Clinic and that is kind of a historic building here!
Tuesday, May 6. 2008
Bits and bobs!
I haven't done the blog for ages, so here I am with an up date, don't expect several up dates a day all the time though! We have had a lot of mayhem and general naughtiness with our "old folk" and new uses for things, heres alternative uses for a napkin.....
We had chocolate fondue for dessert last night, the tray looked pretty so I took a picture, the napkins didn't look so pretty after though!
Here was Bob ready to go snorkelling, cute picture!
We had an adventure tour to go and find the flamingos this morning, I was very excited, I have never seen them in the wild before, we certainly got to see them, but they were a little too far away for a good picture. We then headed over to Necker Island, we saw the plastic palm trees
Then headed over to Saba and Bitter end, the boys headed to the pub
Us girls shopped and looked at the pretty flowers (just for you Connie!!)
More naughtyness from the boys, who found women
and then manhandled them! BOB!!!!
For once the ladies were covered to with this fine specimen!
We are having a snorkle on man head point as I type and we are heading off to see Michael Beans for coktail hour, so I am sure there will be more naughtiness later!!!!!
We had chocolate fondue for dessert last night, the tray looked pretty so I took a picture, the napkins didn't look so pretty after though!
Here was Bob ready to go snorkelling, cute picture!
We had an adventure tour to go and find the flamingos this morning, I was very excited, I have never seen them in the wild before, we certainly got to see them, but they were a little too far away for a good picture. We then headed over to Necker Island, we saw the plastic palm trees
Then headed over to Saba and Bitter end, the boys headed to the pub
Us girls shopped and looked at the pretty flowers (just for you Connie!!)
More naughtyness from the boys, who found women
and then manhandled them! BOB!!!!
For once the ladies were covered to with this fine specimen!
We are having a snorkle on man head point as I type and we are heading off to see Michael Beans for coktail hour, so I am sure there will be more naughtiness later!!!!!
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