Conrad on Peter Island and Henry on Salt Island

Received this today, and not only the charter boats know him, but also a lot of the bareboaters, who I am sure will also be interested in making sure we keep him healthy!

"Most of you know the sweet gentleman CONRAD at Great Harbour, Peter Island who delights in helping with our dingies and guests at his beach. The unofficial ticket to pass through Conrad's home has always been a cold beer and a few words. Unfortunately, he has not been so well of late and his Doctor has told him to give up drinking alcohol. He will be happy to receive a coke, soda, juice or even a dollar in his box in its place. I am sure we can all respect his wishes."

And a reminder that Henry on Salt Island is not supposed to drink alcohol either, so juice or such for him, and he always loves it when people drop him off good break and food nibbles!

And where have we been hiding with all our time off for the last couple days? Well, where we normally are off charter! In the mangroves!!
This time we were in the mangroves at Manuel Reef and there was a one foot tide! Which is pretty high for here. I have never seen so much of the hulls out of the water! They were completely out.




We had a couple spots to fix on the side where primer had bubbled in the heat and was taking off paint. So, with the hulls right out of the water we also managed to do the antifoul all around the first few inches, which was great, as the stuff we had put on in November, an Avalon, already had a ton of barnacles on our hull! We were not happy!
This picture is for troy from our last weeks charter. They requested Coors Light. We bought a couple cases, as generally we are stuck with the stuff forever! They drank it all in the first couple days and promised that they would finish off a ton of it, so we made arrangements to get a LOT more! Now, we have enough Coors Lite to last for about three years. And Bud lite. And Makers Mark! Anyone want a discount on a charter if you are just going to drink those three things?

And this is Richards face as he was fixing the lid off the warm drink locker as we probably broke it trying to cram all that Coors Lite into it!

We had the best luck ever in the mangroves and were out by last night! My son Chad and his girlfriend Christina, made there way around the island for a little tour and took a couple nice pictures...





And look at the cute lambs!

And it looks like we have a pin up picture of the day here, but it is really Christina pretending to drive the large yacht Classship at a cocktail hour they hosted at the boat show!

For those who know my son, Chad, who has worked on the boat many times, he REALLY loved Halloween and costumes and is a bit of a goof. Somehow it appeared that Chad and Brent shared some similarities, and here they are getting ready to go out to the Full Moon Party at Bombas. Kind of scary looking I would say. I don't think we heard the pitter patter of elephant feet until about 430 in the morning....

We had some great ribs, and watched all the tiny creatures come up to the back of the boat, and I managed to take a couple pictures.
Here is a needlenose fish...

and a baby crab...

I almost began to believe that Lisa was planning on going to Bombas with them! As she was looking quite perky in this wig...

But I guess it was not to be as this is what she looked like not that long afterwards, just wanting her bed!

We had slow moving crew today, Bazza and I went into town and I went straight up to the teller in two banks! It felt like Christmas!! He had to do Immigration stuff (yuck) and a few more little details before we get ready to leave the island for awhile on Thursday.
Now the boat has made its way over to Salt Island to its favorite place and it is going to be an early night!