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/album/16/thumbs/501.JPG 2013 New years Day beech Party Charchter Beech St Martin "Big Jolly" /album/16/thumbs/502.JPG 2013 New years Day beech Party Charchter Beech St Martin "Big Jolly" b
/album/16/thumbs/503.JPG Friday !! Great knight out at Lagoonies Bar, Dutch side of St Martin, With entertainment from Yachting Guy "Tony" sailing Ketch "Ragin Cagin. He came up from Grenada with us. /album/16/thumbs/504.JPG Friday !! Great knight out at Lagoonies Bar, Dutch side of St Martin, Local band Playing for us !!
/album/16/thumbs/505.JPG Goodbye From Skipper first Mate and Sheilah, leaving St Martin for the BVI "British Virgin Islands" !! /album/16/thumbs/506.JPG Leaving Lagoon St Martin through lifting bridge 17th Jan 32013
/album/16/thumbs/507.JPG Virgin Gorda, British Virgin Islands , "One of the few Islands we still own" !! 18th Jan2013 /album/16/thumbs/509.JPG Virgin Gorda Marina looking over to Tortola
/album/16/thumbs/510.JPG Dutch couple we met in St Martin, they became good friends and hope to vist there home in America whrer they have lived for the past 20 Years. Dutch and Rinska Bult their yacht (Bruce Roberts Design) themselves in there Gardan at home, !! /album/16/thumbs/511.JPG Skipper and Crew, First steps in Virgin Gorda Marina, BVI "British Virgin Islands" one of the few we still own !! 18th Jan 2013
/album/16/thumbs/512.JPG Virgin Gorda Sound North , Picture from Saba Rock overlooking Estatia Island, Jan 2013 /album/16/thumbs/513.JPG Butterfly tree ! "well thats what we call it" covered with cabbage type butterflys,! Prickly pear Island Virgin Gorda Sound North
/album/16/thumbs/514.JPG Beech Babes !! The Baths "Caves" Virgin Gorda /album/16/thumbs/515.JPG The Baths Beech, "The Caves" Virgin Gorda South
/album/16/thumbs/516.JPG Deadmans Beech Peter Island Resort /album/16/thumbs/517.JPG Deadman Beech Peter Island, Very beautiful !! BVI
/album/16/thumbs/518.JPG Floating Bar "The Bight" Norman Island BVI /album/16/thumbs/519.JPG Marina Cay Dinghy Landing Looking to Scub Island BVI Very beautiful here
/album/16/thumbs/520.JPG Marina Cay Fuel Doc with Phone Box !!!! BVI /album/16/thumbs/521.JPG This Pelicans got Nerve !!!!
/album/16/thumbs/522.JPG Peter Island Resort BVI "How the other tourists live" /album/16/thumbs/523.JPG Road Harbour Tortola "Capital Of BVI"
/album/16/thumbs/524.JPG Saba Rock Virgin Gorda sound North BVI Probly one of the best view bar setting in the world /album/16/thumbs/525.JPG Marina Cay BVI
/album/16/thumbs/526.JPG Saba Rock Garden Virgin Gorda Sound North BVI /album/16/thumbs/527.JPG Sheilah Virgin Gorda Sound North BVI overlooing Saba Rock and Bitter End
/album/16/thumbs/528.JPG "Maaan Dee !" Skipper Chilled to the core !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! /album/16/thumbs/529.JPG Snorkling The Caves Norman Island BVI
/album/16/thumbs/530.JPG Sprat Bay Peter island BVI /album/16/thumbs/531.JPG Suzy on Saba Rock overlooking Estasisa Isl BVI
/album/16/thumbs/533.JPG More Caves "Baths" Girgin Gorda South BVI wonder of Nature !! Humungus Granit Boulders created by moulten rock solidifieng under huge presure , then the fault lines of the tectonic plate forced them to the surface ! give or take a few million years and pich of salt !!!! /album/16/thumbs/534.JPG More Caves "Baths" Girgin Gorda South BVI
/album/16/thumbs/536.JPG The Indians "Rocks off Pelican Island BVI Great place to snorkle !! /album/16/thumbs/537.JPG We must be getting closer to USA "American Virgin Island 2 miles away !!
/album/16/thumbs/538.JPG Yachts at anchor Great Bay Peter Island BVI /album/16/thumbs/539.JPG Alone on Little Jos-Van-Dyke "Still in BVI" !! Very small Island only about 200 peoples liviing here ! "Not sure that includes Yachties" !
/album/16/thumbs/540.JPG Had to name theis pic "Boob Job" !! British sence of humour !! /album/16/thumbs/541.JPG
/album/16/thumbs/542.JPG Beech Bars dont get any ruff and ready as this !! Jos-Van-Dyke BVI /album/16/thumbs/543.JPG No wonder Suzy`s smiling !!!! More Jos-Van-Dyke humour
/album/16/thumbs/544.JPG Famous Foxes Bar Jos-Van-Dyke BVI /album/16/thumbs/545.JPG Just in case you wondered what Suzy did all day !! Outside Foxes Bar Jos-Van-Dyke
/album/16/thumbs/546.JPG Inside Foses Bar Jos-Van-Dyke BVI Had very nice burger and chips here ! "English Fish and chips from chip sop been on my mind" !! /album/16/thumbs/547.JPG Feb 2013 Sheilah Flying the Stars and Stripes !! Cruze Bay St John Island USVI United States Virgin Islands other main Islands include St Thomas and St Croix
/album/16/thumbs/548.JPG /album/16/thumbs/549.JPG My mind wondered from stars and stripes !!! Cruze Bay Beech St Jonh UVI
/album/16/thumbs/550.JPG Cruze Bay National Park Visiters Centre Cruze Bay st John. The park now owens most of St John and is trying to bye the remainder. Most of the money came from the Rockerfeela fortune i belive ? "Now in trust " /album/16/thumbs/551.JPG Ariving in the USVI St John Island Feb 2013
/album/16/thumbs/552.JPG Hoisting the Staes and strips on Sheilah Cruze Bay USVI United Stats Virgin Island Feb 2013 /album/16/thumbs/553.JPG Law enforcment American style !! Taste of what we got to come !! We thought we had regulations ! Boy they got more regulations than they no what to do with !!
/album/16/thumbs/554.JPG Little and Great Lamershur Bay St John Island UVI Met Rick and Nancy from yacht "Nancy Ellen" Rick and me hicked all over to reef Bay and tock this picture. The are very organised here with Bay hosts installed in season ! Also little boxe were you post they $15 for mooring bouys !! /album/16/thumbs/555.JPG Sandy Spit Cay off Joss-Van-Dyke BVI Jan 2013 Owned by Rockerfell Trust and donated to The BVI 2008 "Starange because this ISland is Of BVI Quite away off UVI . So must have bought it from the British in the Dutch deal erea ?? must check !!
/album/16/thumbs/556.JPG Lamershur Bay St John UVI Feb 2013 Very Prety and very quite here /album/16/thumbs/557.JPG Surfer Suzy on Buck island Off St Croix UVI Very nice !! and very popular with locals from Croix and visitors. Snorkeled reef Lagoon North of Island "Through Groto they maped out with stone tablets on seabed telling you names of fish and which way to go !! "Told you they were organised |!!!
/album/16/thumbs/558.JPG Reef Bay St John UVI taken on hike form Lamershur Bay with American Rick /album/16/thumbs/559.JPG Here we are in Christensted Capital of the USVI Island of St Croix.
/album/16/thumbs/560.JPG Anchorage Christiansted . St Croix USVI /album/16/thumbs/561.JPG Wye not Fly Into Christiansted !!! And land next to yacht !!!!!!!
/album/16/thumbs/562.JPG Fort at Christiansted . St Crox Island UVI Built by the Dutch to keep those pesky Brits out !!!!!! and also inprison wayward plantation workers !! /album/16/thumbs/563.JPG Christensted . St Croix UVI Old Mill . Turned into bar runb by two very nice Americn Guys. And boy what a view !!!
/album/16/thumbs/564.JPG Buck Island Reef Groto Entrance /album/16/thumbs/565.JPG Prostend Cay Just off Christensted Town Quay Adjasent to Yacht anchorage
/album/16/thumbs/566.JPG Princess Bay. Coral Bay St John USVI This is a vast bay with Hurican Hole advantages /album/16/thumbs/567.JPG March 2013 Skipper In Brown Bay St John enjoying 10 mile hike !
/album/16/thumbs/568.JPG Met Loads of these on my Hike (Alovera Family ?) /album/16/thumbs/569.JPG Opening Bridge over Lagoon. Dewey. Culebra. (Spanish Virgin Island) Linked with Porto Rico
/album/16/thumbs/570.JPG Coral Harbour St John . Home to many Livaboards and described in the Pilot book as rundown and scruffy ! Nothing seems to Have Changed ! /album/16/thumbs/571.JPG March 2013 Crown Bay ! Who`s car is this ???

(Charlotte Amalie) St Thomas March 2013 The Capital with strong trading links from the past. Some of the old warehouses still evident . Now trading comes in form of cruise liners off loading hordes of passengers into the streets with mostly jewellery shops. (I have never seen so many !) they must be in 3 figures ? the port can handle 5 Cruise Liners at a time indeed we witnessed 5 !
/album/16/thumbs/572.JPG March 2013 Crown Bay Marina Charlotte Amiela St Thomas USVI /album/16/thumbs/573.JPG March 2013 Dinghy Doc Resturant / Bar Where we spent many hours Eating ! Drinking and Internetting. Dewey . Ensada Honda. Culebra . Spanish Virgin Islands
/album/16/thumbs/574.JPG March 2013 Fery Port Next to Lagoon Salinas Bay Culebra Spanish Virgin Islands /album/16/thumbs/575.JPG February 2013 Floating Bar (Any one for Drink ?? Coral Bay St John
/album/16/thumbs/576.JPG Very layed back ! Good Caribbean Humour !!! /album/16/thumbs/577.JPG March 2013 Light Houses Port of Fajardo Porto Rico
/album/16/thumbs/578.JPG Any one wondered where Old London Busses retire to ??? Charolotte Amalie St John ! ! ! /album/16/thumbs/579.JPG London Buses in retirment !!!
/album/16/thumbs/580.JPG Mary Creek . St John USVI /album/16/thumbs/581.JPG Mary Creek 2 St John USVI
/album/16/thumbs/582.JPG Suzys Restaurante /album/16/thumbs/583.JPG More Princess Bay. Coral Bay St John USVI
/album/16/thumbs/584.JPG Sheilah In Ensanada Honda . Culebra Spanish Virgin Islands

Very Calm ! No Dogs barking ! Very slow pace of life ! No Rolling !

Spanish Speaking ! Stayed nearly 2 weeks here ! could have stayed much longer !! Next time !!
/album/16/thumbs/585.JPG Sheilah in Lienter Bay Next to Pay Station St John USVI
You have to dinghy over to the little floating pay stations and put $15 dollar’s (£10) in the box (Envelope provided) stating date. Bouy number. Yacht Name. Evan SSR number !! The lid of the envelope even has a perforated slip for you to keep ! All this on trust ! They do spot checks I ‘am told ??
/album/16/thumbs/586.JPG Charlotte Amaile St Thomas USVI Suzy Town Dinghy Doc /album/16/thumbs/587.JPG Suzy made new friend !!
/album/16/thumbs/588.JPG Very busy termites ! The make trail tunel right up the tree trunk to the nest ! /album/16/thumbs/589.JPG Watermello Cay / Lienster Bay St John . Great snorkle and dive with Gabbie Holst and another Andy Paddie dive instructor on Catamiran (Catatude) very clever !!
/album/16/thumbs/590.JPG Wild Donkeys in Coral Bay St John /album/16/thumbs/591.JPG March 2013

Town Quay Charlotte Amalie St Thomas
/album/16/thumbs/595.JPG Febreary 2013 Culebra USVI Flaminco Beech invaded by Porto-Ricans for the Easter weekend ! this was 2 days befor !! /album/16/thumbs/596.JPG Isla Culebrita Feb 2013 SVI Suzy Hiking to Isla-culabrita Lighthouse
/album/16/thumbs/597.JPG March 2013 Tortuga Beech Isla-Culebrita Culebra SVI /album/16/thumbs/598.JPG Feb 2013 At Famenco Beech Culebra SVI There are a couple of Tanks left on beech after the American Milatery left in 1975. They used Culebra for armes testing and Guarding Panama from the Germans during the 2nd world war.
/album/16/thumbs/599.JPG Flamenco Beech totty ! /album/16/thumbs/600.JPG Skippert Takes dip in sea surf !!!
/album/16/thumbs/601.JPG Mother and Son /album/16/thumbs/603.JPG Aidan , Pen, Archie,
/album/16/thumbs/604.JPG Three Generations of Marshal Boys !! Alan , Andrew , Aidan , Archie /album/16/thumbs/744.JPG
/album/16/thumbs/746.JPG One evan climbed ladder and walked roun deck looking for suzy !! " No joke " /album/16/thumbs/747.JPG Christmas Dinner roaming about Virgin Gorda boatyard !!
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