bvi captains log blog

I thought I was done blogging tonight until this goofy looking guy came into my cabin with emergency pictures to put on the blog!

Did not take Orlando Junior very long to catch a Tarpon tonight at all! A great looking fish and congratulations!

Also thought some of Simeon's fan club would appreciate this picture of him in Pirate gear, not looking quite as goofy as the other one!

And I found this picture on the guest's camera, thought it was wonderful. Little Sophia, as you can tell has a ton of personality! To Simeon's utter dismay, he had a hard time getting her to believe that SImeon was NOT my son, and that Brent and him were not brothers!

Today consisted of mostly cooking and fixing things. I was cooking and Bazza was taking moon jellies and barnacles out of all the A/C hoses that we managed to get this time of year. I think he was up before 7 and Simeon was in the water cleaning them out as well.
I baked. I baked shortbread cookies and three different kinds of pizza for lunch (there was a method to my madness) This all seemed like a great idea until I realized my galley even with the A/C on was a tad warm! I wondered for a split minute if I could rig something up (like a crew member) to open the oven door while I stayed in my room with the a/c on!

The crew members were busy themselves though. Some went to Saba and Bitter End this morning, some went snorkeling on the Cannons, Simeon took garbage and went grocery shopping over at Gun Creek...you know how it goes!
Then it was a sail down to Savannah Bay. Some beach time and tubing time was required...A small tuna was caught which became appetizers tonight....along with conch fritters (I am probably the only idiot I know that boils oil on the stove top on July 31st in the tropics to do fritters! And it is not like we have to do only 6 of them...

The casting net came out on the beach looking for bait for tonight...

We have not made Savannah a regular stop for a long time, but every time we do I am reminded that it really is good for very many things... That is, until late afternoon when we were surrounded by TWO different summer camp flotillas! That was time to leave...

This is where Giorgio's Restaurant USED to be before the rock slides...

The guests are getting cockier on the predator as the week goes along, that probably means the crew will be trying to dump them more energetically soon I believe!

We had buffet tonight, as I had a whole assortment of things for different tastes and our table was just too small. I also decided that it was a good idea to cook some garlic bread from scratch as well...I am sure I have used every ounce of floor on the boat now!

They caught a little Sting Ray just at dinner time (we are now at Marina Cay, for the fishing! These boys can fish all night!, they love it...)
Me, a short blog and an early night tonight I think...Perhaps a movie? Something different then the Modern Marvels and Ultimate Factories that Bazza loves watching nightly!

I appear to have a lot of pictures today to post. We are anchored up at a very quiet North Sound. Dinner is over, and I heard talk of going into Bitter End tonight, but that may have been before I decided that fresh homemade cinnamon buns and ice cream sounded like the perfect dessert to me tonight! I will say that not a drop came back down...
Today's fun started with the banana boat, don't they all look smiley and dry?

Well, maybe not...

It gets awfully tiring climbing back on this thing!

Just to be dumped again.....

One victorious rider left!

Brianna petting the little Shark we caught last night, after the tarpon apparently!

We were not moving very fast and by after lunch we had moved about 200 feet up to snorkel the moon pool. LOTS of Moon jellies and others in the water, but nothing stingy. Lots of fish underneath the boat as well. I was working on silhouette pictures today, so as the guests snorkeled I went along underneath...

Brianna, who had dislocated her shoulder a couple days ago, was really a trooper and it did not keep her down. I quite like this picture..

The wrasses scattering...

I really do not know what the purpose of the noodle is when doing this, but I am sure Simeon knows!

These are all pictures at the little pool...

I have more pictures of Brianna then anyone else today!











Trying some split shots, but they were less then spectacular as well!



The fins all came off so they could go rock jumping

There were some fairly large conch shells around...

And I found one little spotted eel...

Some rock jumping pictures...







And then we made our way over to Necker Island to take a tour around and take the pictures with the fake palm trees. It is almost a must do now!

The Flamingoes were around at Necker as well...

Apparently the fun never ends on our boat, as Bazza got all the younger (ok, and older as well!) members involved in making boats and have a race from the front of the boat to the aft.

There was some heated competition...

Some looked like presents wrapped up, although I think it is holding up the sails!

The youngest member Sophia was about the most clever as she just blew up a balloon and let it go that might have tied to win!

The starting line...

And the prize was getting to decorate the crew! Probably Brent thought this up as it is something I am sure he loved!