and some more scuba...

We still had time to get some more dives in. First we went down to the west end of Jost Van Dyke, and did another live dive. Here are Mark and Margot dropping down into the water column....


The schools of fish are lacking from what they used to be on this corner, I guess just like many places....


But we did enjoy watching the tarpon hunting in the shallows....


Mark shooting up at the school...


And another nice little Hogfish. Been seeing more of those then I have for a long time....


Our second dive was at Little Thatch again, where we managed to drift a long way although not quite as far as the other day. This old piece of whatever had a nice spotted eel in it...




We saw lobster and beautiful barrel sponges as well...




Over to Waterlemon Cay for a snorkel and then a late afternoon sail down to Caneel Bay. We checked into St John in the AM and then some of us went to the Westin for some jet skiing and some opted to go back to the boat for snorkeling. First time I have been over at the Westin. It is actually a nice resort.




And in another keepsake moment, I have a picture of Kevin with a broom in his hand! Amazing.... (actually both he and Bazza have worked very hard getting the boat ready)


We sailed down to Charlotte Amalie and managed to fit in two dives near there looking for treasures. Both Margot and Mark found old bottles, Mark found a torpedo bottle, which was nice. The theme of the last couple/ few days has been RAIN on top of the wind we were having already. I feel bad as a group I booked on another charter yacht was arriving this weekend from Brazil and, the story goes that June was the rainiest June month in BVI records and July was shaping up that way too.

I made Bazza get up in the middle of night and check on things as the leading edge of one squall jerked us sideways and scared the crap out of me! We managed to get our guests ashore in between rain clouds in the morning and were on our way to Puerto Rico. Rain all the way




We still managed to strip sails and get some things put away though, here the sails are down...


Even though we circled for quite awhile, trying to find a break to get into our slip, it just was not happening, and of course it was looking like this as we were trying to back in....


We finally gave up and went forward which gave me the opportunity to say to my husband "Bazza Bwoke" one more time before he got to leave the always breaking boat this summer! Now, he could possibly blame it on us deckhands too and he may not be far wrong.....


Later on in the afternoon though the marina looked like this.....Naturally






Everyone was watching us curiously as we continued to tie the boat up as if a category three hurricane was approaching. Pictures for that later!

As I just finish typing this we are almost 4 hours into our flight from SJU to LAX! HOME!!! TONIGHT!! NO charters or boat for several months! Yippee.....