bvi captains log blog

We woke up to a gorgeous morning at Magen's Bay and the birds dive bombing the bait fish everywhere!

I hear the guests were up many hours before me and spent their morning coffee time quite enjoyably...

I made up for it by making Eggs Benedict by the time i did arise!

A beautiful backdrop, and obviously not many boats come back here as it is too far to go!

We did watch a couple guys on a boat, that was aptly named, Motley Crew, haul out a ladder and want to climb the mast...

Of course the cameras came out as we were not sure this extension ladder on a sailboat was the best climbing plan we had ever seen,

But, we have to give them credit, even with beer in hand, they seemed to know what they were doing!

I told the boys I was going to take action shots of them all coming out of Magen's this morning putting up sails...



Oh dear, what happened here, it appears this was the best action shot I could get of my husband!

I enjoy all the headlands and rocks as we go by them...

Some took up their customary position for the sail...

We looked liked a chinese laundry ship again...

we went over to Hans Lollick Island to stop for lunch, and again, many people camping on the beach...Just something we don't see that much of in the BVI!



We stayed long enough to have lunch, and although B did his best to convince ANYONE that it would be good to go for a walk ashore (so he could check out the females on the beach!) they all declined.

Onward we sailed, and we had to stop at Cruz Bay to get some ice, well, you should have heard the stampede of guests wanting to get off here because of jewellery stores and micro breweries!! B could not believe they took Cruz Bay over a walk with him on Hans Lollick! We managed to anchor ourselves right in Cruz Bay, in a tight little spot, with Gallows Point behind us...Very unusual for us, but we were not staying long. So I thought. THen I started to hear some familiar beats and I thought "oh, someone is playing Beans Music!" then I remembered that Beans was doing a show in aid of his Haiti Island here this afternoon, right off the ferry dock.

So, I listened to the show on the boat, (and could sing along with every word..) while the others were in town. I got B to take a couple pictures.

Not quite the same atmosphere as Marina Cay and there was NO SHOTS of rum to give away so he had to give away raffle tickets instead, which did not go over quite as well!!
Our men were out with out their wives in the bar (the wives were happily in the said jewellery stores) and apparently Gil was a bit too frisky and ripped Dan's shirt off!

Unfortunately Dan thought that we was quite a stud muffin then and we watched the half shirt for the rest of the day!

We motored up to Watermelon Cay for the night, attempting to do some fishing....Had great barbecued ribs for dinner...

Bob is about the most unluckiest fisherman around, he has tried and tried for years to catch something other then a barracuda, preferably a tarpon in his book! Well, we did make a step forward by catching a Horse Eyed Jack tonight!

He played with it awhile before bringing it in...

It was another good day!
Not sure what is happening today, but all of a sudden I am getting hundreds or ED, "increase your pork" cialis and other things that I cannot even put up on here emails cluttering my in box!