bvi captains log blog

Before the early night last night, I did manage to grab a dinner picture...

today after a breakfast of chocolate and peanut butter pie, followed by french toast and bacon (don't ask!) we were on our way to the Bubbly Pool!
The pelicans were thick and many around Diamond Cay

Our intrepid wench explorers collected their lime green clogs and noodles and off they went on their adventure!



They enjoyed the Bubbly pool very much...

I think they spent hours in the water.



They were gone all morning, and after they were finished the Bubbly pool they made their way around to the Brothel on Little Jost Van Dyke.

Here they are posing on the dock at Taboo..

And I think they were trying to look like Brothel Wenches at the house of ill repute!



One of our girls was quite excited to find a goat skull, apparently it matches some other skulls she has in the house (it is ok, she works for the Smithsonian!)

They made rock designs to show they were there. They called them some kind of name that I am supposed to know as a Canadian, but it was more advanced then "eh" and I don't remember it!

Trivia: This week we have 4 Canadians on board, 3 Americans, 1 Australian/Yorkshireman, and 1 Scottish/Welsh man!
After lunch the girls spied some baby reef sharks in the water, and being adventurous as they are, they jumped right in to go snorkeling. Then it was sailing time, and we were heading up the outside. I was absolutely astonished when I saw Simba on the helm and Bazza on the sails!

I did not know he knew how to do this...

We fished our hearts out and we needed two wenches in turns to bring in our catch of the day...First Joan...

and then Clara!

The girls with their catch, a nice little Mackerel

That soon looked like this..

and then became dinner and looked wonderful a few hours later!

We had one person feeling a bit seasick in the swells, so we stopped at the beach at Brewers Bay for an hour and the girls pronounced it a wonderful snorkel...
We continued up our way over cocktail hour to Muskemlon on guana Island

and we all joined them for our Mackerel dinner tonight. After ice cream for dessert, most are out on the back deck fishing and since it is 835 PM it looks like they are going to be able to stay up later then last night! Not me though, good night!

One of our adventurous wenches on the trip is blogging as well, although today she said that she put up an entry directing them to my blog! (Made sense to me, left more time for snorkeling and wine!) anyways, it is a different view of a trip to the islands, that I don't normally see and you can follow it here at Beach Blogging
http://www.bydesign-inc.com/blog/

I was asked for the coordinates of these, or if they were on the web. I used to have them on my site, but it appears I don't at the moment! We have three geocaches around the islands.

The easiest one is on Salt Island (where else would we put a geocache!) and the coordinates are

N 18.22.380
W 064.31.751

We have on one Ginger Island, which is medium difficulty. This can be a tricky one to get to the right part of the island to get at it!!

N 18.23.212
W 064.31.751

and the most difficult one, but rewarding is at

N 18.23.270
W 064.44.041

If you find any let us know and post a picture!

There was quite a lengthy article on the Tourism Outlook in the BVI in lasts weeks Beacon newspaper. Here is a link to a PDF copy of the entire article, which is not truncuated.

For those who are interested in the developments on Beef Island and Scrub Island, I noticed that BVIHCG updated their home page with info and articles on both, including a PDF copy of the Beacons long report on the state of Scrub Island development.