Sunday, November 23. 2008
The Bight, Norman Island
What a gusty day it was today! Overnighting at Great Harbor on Peter Island we took one look at the channel and decided we were NOT turning STARBOARD out there.
I found a couple pictures from when we went out to dinner at the Dove on Friday night. Courtesy of Richard and Lisa who had bought us a gift certificate for Xmas last year and we used before it expired! Been there once before, and truthfully, it is not my cup of tea, I am more a plain meat and potatoes type girl then all these bits of flavor mixed together and prettily arranged. But, the food was good, Bazza had beet and cabbage soup for an appetizer...
I had Brie Cheese and then Ribe Eye steak with asparagus deep fried in mustard something and a lemon potato puree of some kind. It was very good. Definitely a wine bar type hang out for the financial types after work.
And this is what happens in the BVI when you have contact with sea urchins! Simba managed to do that tying a stern line or some such. Looks very painful so stay away from those black sea urchins! The spines go right through your fins as well.
Simba thought that I always put up mean pics of him, so I did get an action shot of him scrubbing the cockpit today...
And these guests were trained early, we already have them bringing their plates down to the galley (maybe it was because they did not want them to blow away!) now we just have to train them to wash them as well!!
We had 4 intrepid divers, that were mostly all resort divers and we really had to search for a calm enough spot to get them in the water. We finally settled on Black tip Reef of the west end of Peter, gusty but doable...
Then it was onto the caves and Bight and I think about every crewed and bareboat charter yacht in the BVI was down in this area due to the weather today. Very gusty along the caves, so we sent the dinghy along with the snorkelers on look out and then headed over to the Bight as out in the middle looked about the calmest place to anchor in the entire area!
We had a late afternoon banana boat ride, with the guests determined to stay on and the driver determined to get them off...
We have had several items blown overboard in the last day with this wind, shorts, more shorts, hats and more hats. We had an impromptu man overboard drill to retrieve this hat!
Willy T's seemed to be hopping so we sent the adults over at cocktail hour while the younger members stayed and fished. We had much better luck then last night!
This was interesting, two hooks with squid on the line and we got two fish on it at the same time.
Some, did become live bait, and we have had three very large hits tonight, that we know had to be very massive sharks, as we had on strong line, and these fish were freight trains and took everything we had. Nothing we could do to stop them.
We watched these people and this dinghy for awhile (Was it you??) as we could not figure out if and why they really wanted the dinghy pulled out there on the rocks! Seemed awfully strange, but I am sure there was a purpose.
We gave up the camera and then pictures were taken of us. I think the lettuce look is glamorous and suits me...
Not as much of a sunset tonight as it was pretty cloudy. We certainly hope the wind does lay down a bit overnight.
Had a delitray made up for me this weekend at Deli France, which is where Clarence Thomas used to be. Very French in there! The bread was great, and the tray was pricey and a bit too "french" for my boat and such, but a good source for those who are into these things here.
It is 9 PM and I think it is just about bed time all the way around on the boat it appears, so off I go too.
I found a couple pictures from when we went out to dinner at the Dove on Friday night. Courtesy of Richard and Lisa who had bought us a gift certificate for Xmas last year and we used before it expired! Been there once before, and truthfully, it is not my cup of tea, I am more a plain meat and potatoes type girl then all these bits of flavor mixed together and prettily arranged. But, the food was good, Bazza had beet and cabbage soup for an appetizer...
I had Brie Cheese and then Ribe Eye steak with asparagus deep fried in mustard something and a lemon potato puree of some kind. It was very good. Definitely a wine bar type hang out for the financial types after work.
And this is what happens in the BVI when you have contact with sea urchins! Simba managed to do that tying a stern line or some such. Looks very painful so stay away from those black sea urchins! The spines go right through your fins as well.
Simba thought that I always put up mean pics of him, so I did get an action shot of him scrubbing the cockpit today...
And these guests were trained early, we already have them bringing their plates down to the galley (maybe it was because they did not want them to blow away!) now we just have to train them to wash them as well!!
We had 4 intrepid divers, that were mostly all resort divers and we really had to search for a calm enough spot to get them in the water. We finally settled on Black tip Reef of the west end of Peter, gusty but doable...
Then it was onto the caves and Bight and I think about every crewed and bareboat charter yacht in the BVI was down in this area due to the weather today. Very gusty along the caves, so we sent the dinghy along with the snorkelers on look out and then headed over to the Bight as out in the middle looked about the calmest place to anchor in the entire area!
We had a late afternoon banana boat ride, with the guests determined to stay on and the driver determined to get them off...
We have had several items blown overboard in the last day with this wind, shorts, more shorts, hats and more hats. We had an impromptu man overboard drill to retrieve this hat!
Willy T's seemed to be hopping so we sent the adults over at cocktail hour while the younger members stayed and fished. We had much better luck then last night!
This was interesting, two hooks with squid on the line and we got two fish on it at the same time.
Some, did become live bait, and we have had three very large hits tonight, that we know had to be very massive sharks, as we had on strong line, and these fish were freight trains and took everything we had. Nothing we could do to stop them.
We watched these people and this dinghy for awhile (Was it you??) as we could not figure out if and why they really wanted the dinghy pulled out there on the rocks! Seemed awfully strange, but I am sure there was a purpose.
We gave up the camera and then pictures were taken of us. I think the lettuce look is glamorous and suits me...
Not as much of a sunset tonight as it was pretty cloudy. We certainly hope the wind does lay down a bit overnight.
Had a delitray made up for me this weekend at Deli France, which is where Clarence Thomas used to be. Very French in there! The bread was great, and the tray was pricey and a bit too "french" for my boat and such, but a good source for those who are into these things here.
It is 9 PM and I think it is just about bed time all the way around on the boat it appears, so off I go too.
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