Dreary Monday in West End

There is something about us moving the boat to West End on Tortola. The wind starts howling and we keep on thinking we might just blow away! Yesterday being no exception when a wave starting coming through... Actually driving down the West Coast Road this is what it looked like. Certainly did not look very water friendly!


We had been planning on going out for dinner to Pusser's or Jolly Roger at West End, but figured a restaurant with 4 sides was a better call, so off we trudged into Pussers in Roadtown....


Had a few chuckles at dinner. See this WIDE 1 oz plastic container? This is what the milk for the coffee came in! (never mind we asked for black coffee...) we all looked funny at that. Dinner was ok. Not good. Bazza's well done burger was the rawest thing possible, but he hesitated to send it back as it might have taken forever and he was starving and Kevin thought his grilled reuben panini should have actually been grilled instead of cold, but not to be, and he was surprised to find coleslaw instead of sauerkraut on it....


Anyways, backing up a bit here...we did have some nice weather in St Thomas this weekend and got some good diving in. Our friend Chris from Commercial Dive Services came down to dive with us...


And here are some of the treasures. This is a 7 lb cannonball! Yep, a cannon ball. I thought that was neat and was going to leave it down there as I did not want to haul it back, but then thought that Bazza would like it.


He proceeded to outdo me anyways by coming back with an over 20 lb shot bar for cannons! Show off... Inflated his safety sausage to bring the thing back!


We had Torpedo bottles a plenty....


As well as others, some with lots of writing too...




This is a button that Chris found, it has three cannons on it. Fairly neat!


I love the old ladle, and cannot wait to see it when it is all cleaned up. I can just imagine it being all dented from going into great big pots dishing out stew on board ships! Also so exciting finding this stuff....


Bits of pottery, old oar locks, a plate, a cup and odds and ends. Yes, it was fun!