bvi captains log blog

I am not sure there is too much new in Tortola this weekend! Jolly Roger opened again for the season last night. They do wonderful jerk prime rib on Saturday nights, at least they did last season, so we look forward to it again.
I finally got my pictures from the other day in Little Harbor off the big camera. A few turned out good enough to share...
I was trying to go for effects, these needlenose are always hard to get pictures of just below the surface, they move really quickly.

This is looking into Little Harbor where the boat was.

I swear this Tarpon is just looking like he is perusing the buffet waiting to see what he is going to have for dinner.

Tarpons and bait fish every where.

this Tarpon I thought was very interesting, as he had an uncommon black mask on his face. They were not too concerned about me in the water...

A nice little Sting Ray wandering around.

These are just a couple pictures of the pilons at the dock in the pay.



This is looking up at the old stone boathouse.

More fish then I think I have ever seen in the Bay there.

I have been working on under/over shots, something I am not very successful with yet. This one kind of sort of worked of the pelican.

Barry the Barracuda...

This picture looks like we are in a dive store selling snorkel gear, but really I just cleaned and bleached all ours up. We had about three dozen of everything (including a few moorings masks that we had found on the bottom) so I whittled it down to about 24. I am sure that will be sufficient for our guests!

It has been very pleasant sitting down at West End, Bazza is building a new trampoline and i am attempting to help. Not very successfully I might add... It was a very expensive trip back from Puerto Rico last time having to redo these. Bazza said the trampoline failed as we broke a stainless steel shackle on it and about the next wave it was all over with.... They are clean and pretty.

I mentioned awhile ago that the commercial divers are spending a lot of time at Pockwood Pond singlehandedly keeping our electricity on island running. Apparently, the intake and exhaust pipes are springing leaks and when they spring leaks, the suction stops which means no water getting to the plant. Why is this happening? According to my husband who stopped to watch this weekend for awhile, they laid the pipes and then laid the road over top of it. Only thing is when they laid the pipes they just put the rocks etc back around the pipes and then put down the road whenever. No sand around the pipes which is common practice in most first world places. Because there are a lot of big trucks coming off the barges and cement trucks etc coming in down there, they are heavy and these rocks are poking holes in the pipes with their rough edges, so about every time they get one patched up, another one springs open...
I could not make a catty remark if that was true on relatives and petty contracts but I will restrain myself tonight and instead leave you with this very pretty picture of the sunset tonight over the Thatch Islands