What are we up to on Yacht Promenade today?

Our total accomplishment for the day was going to the lab for blood tests (I had to do a glucose tolerance test that mean I had to hang around the lab for an hour and a half) and going to Banco Popular to get our ATM cards pinned! Yep, and we stopped for two burgers and two cokes that cost us $36.00 all up and were back at the boat at 4:00.
Does not seem like much accomplished does it? But, it is Tortola remember. Banco Popular had one very disinterested customer service agent on (I am pretty sure that is an oxymoron!) and it took a long time to get up to the front of the line to put a PIN # on these cards! We were there twice as the first time, the power went off so no machine working you know. They also had big signs up there that says September 1st they really went to banking hours which was 9 to 3! Funny in North America there is so much more competition you get used to seeing the banks open at all hours but not here. I was into First Caribbean yesterday as well, and they are in the process of really downsizing their space and rearranging.
Bazza renewed his work permit yesterday and that really was one of the better days we have had in Labor, it did not take all day and he did not get yelled at too much for some imagined thing he did or filled out wrong! Yippee!! Done for another year for him. Mine is coming up next month... Took a little drive around Inner Harbor today, this is an old dredge that is up in the mangroves and just a pic of the harbor as I did not find too much else to take a picture of!

"You may already be aware but HMS IRON DUKE is a British Warship that is in the Caribbean area to primarily offer assistance and reassurance to the British Overseas Territories; particularly throughout the Hurricane season.
They have also been in the news recently for their secondary role whilst in the Caribbean which is to work alongside the United States Coastguard in the fight against the trafficking of Contraband throughout the Caribbean AOR and onto the United States and Europe.
During the 4 day stay the sailors will have sufficient time off to recuperate from what has been a busy but successful time in our programme. "
The current Iron Duke is the third RN Ship to bear the name and 5th of the Duke Class Frigates. Launched on 2 March 1991 by the Ship's Sponsor, Lady Jane King, the wife of the then Secretary of State for Defence, she was commissioned on 30 May 1991. Iron Duke enjoys strong affiliations with her home town of Kingston Upon Hull, the Duke of Wellington's Regiment and the Worshipful Company of Founders. Her motto is "Virtutis Fortuna Comes" (Fortune is the companion of valour).

So, I always giggle when they bring these ships in (I am sure on purpose) for R and R when NOONE is around and NOT much is happening! Having said that I wonder if they will even be stopping here now or if they will be helping out with the hurricane efforts around Turks and Caicos...Hmmm..
I finally received a couple pictures from our friends (and of course repeat guests) the Cape Cod Pirates, who have an annual week or two out at Cape Cod in the summer reliving their memories of the yacht, last trip was in February and planning the next, which is apparently April of 2010 and they have another pirate couple to add to the mix!

We always look forward to seeing them, and we had some spectacular sunsets with them in February in Oil Nut Bay...