BLog server was down, and now back up

Frustrating, it has been going down every couple weekends and my hosting company is telling me it is not their server. Everyone else on the web says it is. I am going to have to do something!
It seems to happen on the weekend and then comes good again Monday when they run a script fixer or whatever. Yes, I am going to have to move it though, this is unacceptable. So, temporarily again we will be blogging on this page!
We have been very busy since returning from St Martin, we have had a billion town stops to do. Hold on, they went pretty good, I don't have to blog about how lousy my town days were! Hallelujah! Of course, they are not done yet! The boat was totally torn apart as a maintenance boat and Lisa was despairing of ever getting all the oil off the walls before charter pick up tomorrow! We just hid in our cabin today. It seemed the easiest move!

Poor Lisa dedicates herself to fishing when we make passages, hoping to get something other then seaweed and barracuda, but no such luck! She is related to some of our guests! Nada, No fish, and if we are waiting for these keen fishermen who are coming on tomorrow to catch up fish we will be waiting a long time as they have not caught anything but Barracuda the entire they have been coming on here! These are our Old folks (eeks, can I say that?) from St Marys' Georgia!

I have spotted this jeep a few times around town, it is the cleanest shiniest vehicle on island and I love the little pig on the front!

For some odd reason, I decided that cooking a turkey dinner in the hot Caribbean would be a good idea! Had a craving for it! AND I found REAL TURNIPS which was pretty exciting! Here he is ready to go in...

Here are our stunning men looking oh so lovely. Notice we even sit at the small table off charter!

Lisa, way back in the dark ages would have been the caveman that would go out and hit animals over the head, drag them home and chew and gnaw on the bones. She is such a little thing, but first of all she loves all the yucky bits inside the turkey, and sucks on the bones! Then she is like a little speed demon with both hands trying to get all the meat into her stomach before her head tells her she is full! You would laugh!
As you can see from the first table, the food was evenly spread out to start with, but by the end the bowls were all surrounding Lisa and she was laid back moaning about her full belly! You go girl!


A few other bits and odds and sods:
Smugglers Cove Development is NO MORE. The developer pulled out, and it was just announced in the budget that the government would be buying it over the next few years for National Park, and the first payment was ready to go out.
I have copied some info out of the newspapers this weekend on the budget for those who are interested in reading about it. There are some other figures on tourism etc in there as well.
The link for it in PDF form is Newspaper articles from Beacon and Sun on the 08 BVI Budget

Moving along, Sandy Cay now belongs to the people of the BVI. The PDF from the newspaper this weekend is HERE

These next couple bits are
"street gossip" so I do not have any paper, nor am quite sure what is going on. I understand that the cruise ship dock is going to be lengthened by a couple hundred feet or so by November, and as my hubby saw the pilons for it today, it is probably. Lets all hear a collective GROAN now. I really thought we were getting somewhere with explaining how bad they were for the territory! It is said so we can take bigger ships, but we already have the Queen Mary here anchored out and really, how much larger do we need?

I also understand that RAFFLES who was going to be the management company for Lambert Resort has pulled out, I had heard other rumors about finances before that, so that may be another one down, and of course, Oil Nut Bay is in court between the owner of the land and the developer, so all their ads with the pretty parrots and flamingoes they have flying around there (nope, we don't have any there!) will NOT "SOON COME"

Onto Beef Island. The court case has been pushed back by the courts to later on, and the trial may not happen before the court takes it's summer break, so that is good in that there is more time to raise the money! The VIEC, has made a very good start raising money for this cause, and was on both the radio and TV in the last week talking it up where good money was raised. Additionally, the VIEC has raised donations from a Welsh Charity, A US Charity and a private individual who comes to Beef Island yearly, and has a foundation that he funds himself, and has offer matching funds! This is all very exciting, but there is a long way to go.

The next couple weeks are exciting for me, old friends coming on charter and we have rented a rather large power boat so I can get around the islands and take pictures of EVERYTHING. It probably has some diving in it as well and then I my son Chad is coming down, for the May Charter Yacht Show that he is working and I will be blogging and taking pictures of everything I see!