Wednesday, September 17. 2008
Birthdays and Swimming Horses
First of all, thank you everyone who sent me the birthday wishes! I had a busy day shopping in St Thomas for my birthday and yes, believe it or not, I did get a couple presents. I picked them out myself and they came in the mail today. One is a camera and one is a camcorder! Go figure... Different cameras for different things you know. My little snorkeling camera flooded yesterday afternoon, so that will mean that I have to get ANOTHER camera. My husband wishes I would have taken up knitting.
Lets go back to yesterday though. We decided to make the run down to St John in the evening when it was cooler out. Just as we pulled out of Roadharbor the horse and rider came swimming by...
We hung around and watched them for awhile, and it was very interesting as the dolphins were wanting to play with the horse! The horse did not want to be in the water and the rider really made him swim a long way today. He sounded like a freight train going by. Here is a crummy shot of the dolphins and you can just see the horse in the top left corner.
Of course I hemmed and hawed whether I would get in the water or not, knowing when I finally did the dolphins and horse would leave, and yep, they all did. I went for a bit of a swim anyways. I have enjoyed being back in the water swimming. There were a lot of silver sides on the point at Baughers, more then I have ever seen before on my swims here.
Finally we took off down the channel, flat flat water!
Bazza said to me that he would be fine if the seas were like this all the time in the BVI, I had to agree! It was flat calm, and I took out my big camera to get some sunset shots as we were traveling down.
Here is Little and Great Thatch Islands
About this time I saw a small little dinghy coming from West End, with 3 young guys on it driving like crazy, this was after customs closed and it reminded me that I had read a statistic recently that there are rather a lot of dinghy's that are stolen from Sopers Hole and ran over to the US side.
Just then for the first time in a decade, just on sunset, we were pulled over by the coastguard. You bless the days you do everything right and feel secure that you have your clearance papers from the BVI right beside you!
They were very nice young men, but the funny part was seeing one of them with a sea sick patch on! You see the seas, hate to see him when it is rough out!
They did their paperwork, gave us the cursory (not much as they said since we were a commercially certified vessel in the BVI they knew we would have up to date safety equipment, and since we weren't US flagged they were not too concerned!
They went on there way and we carried on to St John.. Anchored in Caneel Bay, (the only boat there!) and went into customs on St John to check in in the morning. Quite funny as there was one guy there, who said he was from St Croix, and he was only there as no one had shown up today! He had no idea what he was doing and we talked him through the procedure. All we could do was laugh. He even said he had no idea what he was doing, and kept on asking us what they normally did and kept for paperwork! Then our friend Gina was over on St John and offered to take us running around so we quickly went over to Red Hook where she picked us up and that is all for tonight!
Lets go back to yesterday though. We decided to make the run down to St John in the evening when it was cooler out. Just as we pulled out of Roadharbor the horse and rider came swimming by...
We hung around and watched them for awhile, and it was very interesting as the dolphins were wanting to play with the horse! The horse did not want to be in the water and the rider really made him swim a long way today. He sounded like a freight train going by. Here is a crummy shot of the dolphins and you can just see the horse in the top left corner.
Of course I hemmed and hawed whether I would get in the water or not, knowing when I finally did the dolphins and horse would leave, and yep, they all did. I went for a bit of a swim anyways. I have enjoyed being back in the water swimming. There were a lot of silver sides on the point at Baughers, more then I have ever seen before on my swims here.
Finally we took off down the channel, flat flat water!
Bazza said to me that he would be fine if the seas were like this all the time in the BVI, I had to agree! It was flat calm, and I took out my big camera to get some sunset shots as we were traveling down.
Here is Little and Great Thatch Islands
About this time I saw a small little dinghy coming from West End, with 3 young guys on it driving like crazy, this was after customs closed and it reminded me that I had read a statistic recently that there are rather a lot of dinghy's that are stolen from Sopers Hole and ran over to the US side.
Just then for the first time in a decade, just on sunset, we were pulled over by the coastguard. You bless the days you do everything right and feel secure that you have your clearance papers from the BVI right beside you!
They were very nice young men, but the funny part was seeing one of them with a sea sick patch on! You see the seas, hate to see him when it is rough out!
They did their paperwork, gave us the cursory (not much as they said since we were a commercially certified vessel in the BVI they knew we would have up to date safety equipment, and since we weren't US flagged they were not too concerned!
They went on there way and we carried on to St John.. Anchored in Caneel Bay, (the only boat there!) and went into customs on St John to check in in the morning. Quite funny as there was one guy there, who said he was from St Croix, and he was only there as no one had shown up today! He had no idea what he was doing and we talked him through the procedure. All we could do was laugh. He even said he had no idea what he was doing, and kept on asking us what they normally did and kept for paperwork! Then our friend Gina was over on St John and offered to take us running around so we quickly went over to Red Hook where she picked us up and that is all for tonight!
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