Recycling – not everybody gets it.
Given the price of groceries here on St John, we were pleased to see that the local market is encouraging recycling by giving you 10% off if you buy over $25 and use the re-usable shopping bag. We always carry our own bags because we hate too much plastic, especially in the mainland american culture […]
What have we found?
We had an email from friends on another boat saying where they’d been these last few days and ending with the question ‘what have you found?’. Such a simple but great question, I answered it with a long list of the highlights from the last few days…. Movie at Maho Camps was ‘Finding Nemo’. We […]
More Max Treasures
We are turning into a bunch of scavengers. Max found a coconut beside a dock in Road Town, Tortola and insisted on it coming back to the boat. Without much hope I promised to open it, so we found a way to tear off the husk, which revealed a very small coconut nestling inside. Using […]
Just hanging out in St John
Not a lot to write because we’ve been doing a lot of not a lot, so to speak. St John is a lovely place just to take it easy and do very little, so we’ve been doing exactly that. A bit of school, a bit of swimming, a bit of walking and a bit of […]
In and out
We’ve had a busy and not very relaxing couple of days doing necessities of life. After dropping Yan and Karla at the airport, we were in a convenient and OK but not wonderful place called Trellis Bay. It was blowing hard and the bay is too packed with boats for swimming, so we missed our […]
Treasure!
Today is Nikolaus, 6th of December when chocolate gifts are given and the countdown to Christmas begins. The kids were delighted to wake up to packages of goodies and, especially, the Lebkuchen House which dispenses a cookie each day till Christmas. As we said to our friends, we hunt down any festival involving chocolate and […]
Under da sea
We have a new underwater camera, so we are having fun! – Stingray and two harlequin basslets, very pretty – Gesa. Also very pretty. – Sea urchins and small fry – Our own small fry being a mermaid
Back in the warm, at last!
Gesa and Issie enjoy swimming! Yan and Karla, no longer in thermals and wet weather gear Looking out as we approach our anchorage in Charlotte Amalie Even when the sea is rough, Gesa can still smile if the sun is shining!
Beard or no beard
Did I mention I grew a beard? Issie insisted it got shaved off pretty quick. I don’t think it looked too bad though…
Small plane!
Gesa and the kids got to St Thomas by flying through San Juan, Puerto Rico. After the joys of an American Airlines transcontinental cattle truck, they changed gear completely and flew on a ten seater (one pilot + nine passengers) plane to the island. Looks like fun, especially the landing!