Sunday, January 25, 2015

Photos of the BVI

We are sitting in Crocus Bay in Anguilla and have discovered a beach bar with a terrific wifi signal, so voila, photos for you today!  We are over here while we wait for an electrical company to take a look and hopefully fix our failed windmill.  With Silk Pajamas, we're investigating the snorkeling, hikes and beach bars!  Some of the places are just vaguely familiar to us as we were here in the 90's with Jeanne Beltrandi and Ken Ward on a rental boat.

A view of Great Harbour where the famous "Foxy's" is located.

Also from Jost van Dyke here is Little Bay.

Up, up, and up we climb.  At least some was in the shade before we ran out of road!

The goats having a look at Cane Garden Bay over on Tortolla from Jost van Dyke.

Stad Amsterdam sailing by us in the Sir Francis Drake channel.  We see this one often sailing the islands.

The Lady B came sneaking up behind us doing 16 knots while we did our usual 5!

At around 6:00 am the sun came up while we did our 14 hour crossing between the BVI and St. Martin.  There was never any more wind than you see in the photo, so it was a day of motoring!

This is one of our 3 mahi mahi caught on the crossing.  (Actually caught 4, but one got away!)  Small, but very tasty!  We still have some left in the freezer.

Laurie is becoming quite skilled at filleting our catch!

The colour of the mahi mahi is quite extraordinary when they're first caught.  They go from brilliant blue, through bright yellow and then dull down as they die.  They swim in partners, thus catching 2 at a time is quite common.

Better a sand drift, than a snow drift.