bvi captains log blog

Butterflies everywhere! I have never seen so many and this is what it looks like now in the Hole, and it is HOT!

I think I used the excuse that i said I would put up pictures to take a break from coiling lines and now, removing them from the mangroves...

this is what it looks like on the reef out on the South Side. We have seen worse conditions just any old day of the week!

Still some swell breaking but overall, pretty decent.

Thorsten wanted pictures put up of his villa so here they are, afterwards. All is fine. One curtain hanging out of the window on the upper left and a couple windows open on the top right.

Water is still splashing over the dock, but there is not even a leaf down really...

Lots of plastic in the water and it is stirred up pretty brown.

I remember in the big storms of November 2003 we saw dead cows and fridges floating in the water, I wonder what we will see this time.

OK, back to doing lines....

I shall go out of the hole this morning once Bazza wakes up and unties the dinghy to take pictures outside, but from the our sail bag this is what we see this morning. I swear it looked worse yesterday afternoon!



We have 2 mangrove leaves on the back deck, you cannot even see a one here! The ones on the back deck we might have drug on ourselves yesterday! The silver lining is it is a great opportunity to clean the boat well for charters with everything being off of it!

I had a ditch bags ready to go, with passports, phones etc, but this was the most important one to me. My MAC laptop and back up drive wrapped in about 20 plastic bags before it would have gone into a dry bag!! I have my priorities!!

It was blowing and raining pretty hard when we went to sleep around midnight, but the boat was not moving, Apparently it passed closest to us about 2 AM or so this morning, about 30 miles east of us and that really put us on the right side, and NOONE getting a direct hit!
I woke up this morning to sunshine and thought "we must be in the eye" and then looked at the internet and we are not! Yippee!!