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It became that time of the week again, when the water taxi pulled up once again to the yacht and whisked away the guests! I know they were looking forward to the next few days shopping in Miami though before heading back to Brazil!


Many thanks from the Muller family! It was a memorable week which, you can be sure, will be remembered by every member of the family. Your personal attention to each one of us made us feel at home the very first day. ROBERTO
This trip was and will be unforgettable! CLAUDIA
Everything we did and saw on this trip was amazing, as well as the crew... DANIEL
I loved this trip! JESSICA
I loved this trip and if it depends on me, I'll come back! ALEXANDRE

Thanks to all of you from Sao Paulo Brazil, it was a fun week with tons of wake boarding and water skiing.

It was time for the crew to do some town stuff and banking since we just happened to be in Roadtown on a weekday (very unusal...) before heading back to Marina. Brent disappeared to friends for the weekend and SImeon was looking very ambitious getting out the sewing machine to sew some seams on his sail for Whiskey Dream (name has to go Simeon, it does NOT suit you!)
He asked me if I remembered how to thread bobbins, and that was a big nope... (is this a smile on his face?? Just a little one??)

Bazza remembered how to thread bobbins though and soon SImeon was sewing like a pro!

What does a girl do when her air conditioning is broken in her cabin? Well, she drags out the blow up mattress in front of the TV, and makes what her mother would call a "Duck's Nest!" It is very comfortable as well, although Bazza tells me don't even think I can live her on charter. It has everything I need though!! AND more room then my cabin...

I think we were up until about 2 or so this morning catching up on the season of Damages, when we finally drug ourselves out of bed, Bazza wanted to go to Clarence Thomas, and walking down the dock we saw Simeon doing some MORE work, scraping the bottom of his dinghy! What is the world coming to?

A sight we don't see very much on Tortola any more is the cows on the road, but they were here this afternoon, looking quite healthy for BVI cows as well!


That is all I know, time to make Nacho's and watch more Tv! We don't pick up until Tuesday so tomorrow is a do nothing day either, although I do have some contracts and emails to answer!

This is my "It's almost August in the British Virgin Islands, it is HOT, it is that time of the month AND my air conditioning is "no workie" in my little cabin" look. Fix it. I feel sorry for all the boys today, I think they all get to share in the glory of my mood!

We started the day at Mountain Point with water skiing and wake boarding, followed by a Simeon guided snorkel tour to the Moon Pool...

Roberto looks like Lorelei on the Rocks here!

There were bait fish around...

But a beautiful spot as always...

Lunch was spectacularly good today from the crews standpoint...(although the guests also told me the food has been outstanding, I may not be fancy, but I know how to cook! Just don't ask for funny little artistic garnishes!) Anyways, I made the buns big and doughy just like I like them, (it really is all about me!), made the crew favorite egg salad, and I have found the surimi (fake crab) that Sailors Ketch sells is far superior to any of my other wholesalers on island and makes a salad that I enjoy eating!

By this time we were at the Baths, and the guests went ashore with Brent to explore...I stayed on board to complain about how hot it was! (I know, what a surprise that i stayed on the boat!)











Then it was off for a spinnaker run down the channel to Salt Island.

I guess before the spinnaker went up, we managed to fit in the swimming under the hull game...



Well, for some, some watched the games from a safe distance...

Even though it was close to 6 by the time we arrived at Salt Island, we still had to fit in the walk on land, the geo cache, a snorkel and a slide show before dinner... Brent charged around Salt Island with the younger members..

They enjoyed the land crabs...

I think this is a wonderful picture!

Yes, they climbed everywhere...



I must admit this is a view I have never seen and it is nice, although I might have seen it by helicopter!

Victorious at the top of the island...



With our gray skies and rain, not much luck for sunsets the last few days. I think Brent talked them into the summit by saying how wonderful the sunset would be!

As usual, while trying to sync the slide show to the Apple TV, the device disappeared out of my Itunes window, and we could not find it anywhere, I left Bazza to figure it out and took my cranky hot self in for a dive to cool off in more then one way! It is the same darn thing every week. I will rant about that another day. Suffice to say I ended up putting the slideshow on a disc and Bazza hooked up his PC to the TV so we could watch it!
I did find a piece of scruffy reef that I have NEVER been on before here. Hard to believe as I thought I knew every inch... Not much on it but a few things to photograph anyways, a crab sitting on a barrel sponge...

This lobster and Spotted Eel were underneath the same coral head...go figure!



Still star fish around and hundreds of large grown conch now. Also large tulips, I probably saw 8 of them, all enormous!

Dinner tonight (almost at South American hours it is so late) Always so busy on the last day trying to "fit" everything in...

Not one of our prettier cakes tonight for sure! But it had ice cream with it and it was chocolate, so even though bursting, we still ate...

This is last night, the testosterone on the back deck was a bit thick...

Ah! It figures, they caught a little reef shark...

They also netted and brought on board to see an eel... A golden eel, I believe! Quite unusual...

Here is a close up of the head on him......

Looks like we are practicing The Wave here!

And this is last nights dinner pic...

Here it looks like we are practicing country line dancing but I would not think that was the case!

We had a very nice calm night at Muskmelon Bay and a morning was spent water skiing, wake boarding, snorkeling, etc etc. All that kind of vacation things that we do so often! It was not until about 2 or so this afternoon when we finally left here and were absolutely amazed to see how much the seas had calmed down ! And the wind! Calm enough that we could get out the trolling lines and going around the outside fishing. At first our fishing looked like this....





We often find with "fishing" that WE fish, not the guests! Eventually, after naps were done, we did manage to get some participation!







The big catch I think was a needlenose! But we did get a small mackerel for eating....

and a small tuna for appetizers (yep. blood in the picture)

While we were going by West Dog about 5 this afternoon, it was looking about this flat, and we stopped for a snorkel...

Roberto and I went for a swim anywas...

I kept on laughing as his mask constantly filled up because of his moustache! He was stopping to clear often.

We did not see much spectacular and not a lot of fish, although the rocks and boulders were very pretty...





We did have a couple turtles. On our way back we saw both Simeon and Brent freediving into a cave to check it out....

We found a ton of bird activity...

Unfortunately trolling through their we managed to catch a pelican, and really the line was wrapped around him, not hooked in him....

We reeled him in, pulled him on the boat...

Threw a towel over his head to calm him down, and Brent cuddled him...

Then we released him to fish again another day!

Continued on up to Mountain Point and had dinner...

Another late night for us, the days seem to get longer as the week gets shorter as we are trying to fit everything in a day! I hear rumours that they caught a little Reef Shark tonight!