British Virgin Islands

Good to be home and even better to be in the other home on the boat! No surprise to anyone that Miami was a nightmare airport with me spending over an hour to get a boarding pass with seeing 9 different people and then upon arriving in Tortola finding out we had NO luggage. We did not feel so bad though as there was about 25 people on our flight and only about 3 got any luggage at all!
We do have it now though, and I am glad I put some of the perishables in plastic bags!!! (Becel margarine, I love it and always bring some, I will just be scooping it out of a bag instead of a container for the next couple months.
We were starving when we arrived so went out to Village Cay for hamburgers and then Rich and Lisa came to get us (sans luggage!) The boat looked great and we sat around chatting for awhile until bed really called our name. I was a big girl and managed to sleep all night without air conditioning!! There was a bit of a breeze though and that helped.
I had given Bazza helpful comments before we left the states like "what about my air condiitoning?" "Don't you think you should buy something here to fix it with and bring it down with you?" But he ignored me, found it more handy to go to the local stores and pay three times the price today but I cannot complain as he had it up and running for me this afternoon.
Not that we needed A/C today, with the outer feeder bands of Hanna affecting us we had TONS of rain! And I do mean tons. Richard had to wash the boat and the torrential rain pours helped his cause.

The boat was bucking like a rodeo horse last night on its mooring with the wind and seas there were coming from the southwest. Rich said he almost moved the boat in the middle of the night, but he did move this AM over by the cruise ship dock where it is quieter.
Rich showed me some of his underwater photos, and he is getting very good. So, I have taken the liberty to showcase some of his pictures this week that i found! He is really enjoying the camera.
I have to start with a turtle as I love them.

Then a squid as I like the colors in them equally as much.

A great shot of the wreck of the Beata

And I think this is called a butterfly fish, but not entirely sure. It is pretty though!

That is all the fish pictures for today, we will save some for the rest of the week!
I did also take some pictures from the plane when we were coming in yesterday.
this is Sandy Spit.

And this is Culebra

great view of Little Jost Van Dyke

Guana Island

And a picture of White Bay on Jost Van Dyke


I also took some pictures of Scrub Island, which really looks like it is just waiting for a hurricane to come and take it away. I heard from the taxi driver that a lot of the workers had quit as they were not getting paid, but soon the development should have some new financing coming through and it will be up and running. We will see. I also have heard that the silting curtains do not work and have not worked since the day they were put down. Yeah, like we could not have told that by looking at them!












Also understand that a group of the Prospect Reef Timeshare owners is suing the BVI government as they never received any compensation for their timeshares when the government bought out Prospect Reef. That is now a couple law suits at least against "our generic government"...

Rich and Lisa have just gone to the chicken van for chicken and ribs for all and then I think it is time to take that to bed with a movie. Tomorrow is pick up charter day again, so I may actually have to put some of my stuff scattered all over the salon away in the AM. We will see whether our guests manage to fly around the storm clouds to get down to the islands.