Swingin!
As you’ve seen, we set up the boat’s spinnaker pole to support the hammock, but it also comes in useful for a swimming swing! We suspend the pole out the side of the boat and fix a rope swing and let the fun begin. Issie is really getting the hang of it.
Lovely Bubbly
Here on Jost Van Dyke there’s a place called the Bubbly Pool. The swell of the Atlantic Ocean makes its way in through a gap in the rocks to fill a little pool. The constant filling and emptying makes a swirl of bubbles to knock the socks off any jacuzzi you can imagine. We had […]
Issieism
We walk to a fantastic tide pool for a swim (pictures to come) and get lost on the way, going through scrub and undergrowth. Issie complains a lot but Gesa uses the full mother’s repertoire of encouragement and threats to get her there. We succeed and have a great time. As we come to leave, […]
Gesa writes…..
Gesa wrote an email to a few of our friends, we thought we’d share it with all our readers…. We have been in the British Virgin Islands for almost two weeks, and our time here, sadly, is coming to an end. We plan to head to the Caves on Norman Island for some of the […]
Must be getting closer to America
Bought a bag of ice today. Look on the back. You’ll be glad to know it says ‘calories – zero’
BVI pictures
A few more photos from recent days – Gesa in a fabulous little pool at The Baths, the amazing rock formation on Virgin Gorda – Relaxing in the ‘splash hammock’ – rigged on a spinnaker pole so you can hang over the water, all I need to do is fit a ‘quick release pin’….ha ha […]
Ashore at Marina Cay
We spent a couple of nights at a nice little island called Marina Cay (pronounced Key – only the charterers say ‘Cay’!!) It’s supposedly famous as a couple settled here in the 30’s to get away from it all and now it’s all come to them, so that just shows, really. Read a little more […]
Issieism
We are on the beach with another family. One of their daughters informs us that she is allergic to peanuts. No problem, we don't have any food with us anyway. The next day, I ask Issie what she would like to drink, milk or water? "Milk, Daddy, I'm allergic to water" ———-radio email processed by […]
The Baths
‘Oh yeah’, says the seasoned sailor at the bar in St Maarten, ‘If you’re going to the BVI’s you’ve gotta go to the Baths on Virgin Gorda.’ ‘I dunnow’, says the other Cap’n Ahab sitting next to him, ‘The Baths are always full of bareboaters (charter boats)’ ‘Yeah, that’s true, but there’s a reason for […]
Sailing in the BVIs
A post for the sailors amoung our readership. Sailing here is fantastic because the many islands shelter the area from the ocean swells so we are in fairly flat water with a good breeze. Added to which the distances are short so its rarely more than two hours at sea betwen beautiful places. Yesterday we […]