Coconuts and spinnakers in the BVI

If you are still following us on our never ending week long circles around the island, we are at the end of another one! This one went very quickly and was very enjoyable! I enjoyed getting to beach comb yesterday immensely. The girls have asked what they have had for cocktail hour several times this week and invariably, it has been Kerrys Blue Drink, Kerrys Purple Drink and Kerrys Starbucks Frappucino! (which gives me an idea for the last cocktail hour to go along with their dirty martini's they want!)
This is not any of the drinks. This was our dinner last night!

We overnighted on the back side of Cooper Island, and continuing along in the vein of "we are hunters, we feed ourselves" week, Bazza took a couple wenches (that just sounds wrong!) into the mangroves at South Sound on Cooper Island (I believe we have hit everything "south" this week!) They were coconut searching today, and Bazza did the he man thing...

and the girls did the hard work of drinking the coconuts! They did not even bring any back for the rest! What is up with that!!!

They visited the conch graveyard back there....

and then we went sea glass collecting on Salt Island. The girls pronounced it the best place, with the sea glass being "cooked" properly and them not having to throw too much back! They looked for Henry but he was not there so they left him some cookies and juices (no beer any more for him!) and after barbecuing hamburgers, we had a chance finally to get our spinnaker up for a run down the channel.

The girls all had on their Promenade shirts, so we took front and back shots...



Then I hopped in the dinghy to take some pictures of the entire boat for them (and my blog!)

These are some happy smiles anyways on the side of the boat.

We pulled into Little Harbor and Simeon tied us stern too so we would be close to shore...

and the girls jumped into their "other" favorite position. In the power lounger!!!! This will round out the afternoon and bring us up to cocktail hour. Hey, I am ahead of myself today, a blog before cocktail hour! Hmmm...I must not have enough to do!

This is my husband! Silly picture!!!

And a couple other tidbits that I have gathered up this week. One is from the National Parks Trust that is a series of photo's they wanted the crewed charter yachts opinion on as far as putting out the proper procedure to pick up moorings. They hope this method will stop some chafe. They wanted to know whether we all had seen bareboaters doing this. Bazza's answer was that they chafed the lines a lot running over the balls after they dropped them and that those who knew how to do this would do it, and the others, which is most, would just get it hooked onto the damn boat any way they could and that is ok.
Here is a link to the PDF of the pictures for those interested in this type of thing.
Also, the Virgin Islands Charter League (www.vicl.org) has announced they are hosting a boating show on the radio! Here is the PDF on that.