It’s a Short Season

Diane has left and now we are left to our own devices. Soon our friends Wilma and Gene on Gewil, and Vince and Alex from Slow Motion will arrive. In the mean time what is there to do? We go to the Honeymoon

Beach Drive In

Dog Learning to boogie board

 

Monday night movie and enjoy a movie, popcorn and burgers.  Joe’s on the other end of the beach is now the Dinghy and they have an inflatable on the beach with a female mannequin in it. I understand she has already had trouble with people borrowing her bathing suit and taking her for rides. Honeymoon beach is a lot of fun.

Dinghy's and their sign

Leslie at Heidi's

 

 People have fun in the water during the day sometimes teaching dogs to surf. There is of course Heidi’s beach bar at one end and Dinghy at the other for food and drinks and at night with the lights on it is a magical place.

Honeymoon at night





What a cool slide

The most toys wins

 

There is also Brewers Beach to swim, snorkel, get food and drinks at the food trucks and sometimes catch a beach wedding or even a swimsuit model shoot. Some big boats sometimes drop in for a play day, and they have the toys!



another slide! It must be the new thing

 

swimsuit models at Brewers

 

 




There of course is the Wednesday shopping spree with friends to the thrift store, Cost U Less, Home Depot, and Price Smart.

Zora fitting Leslie's sandals

 

 Leslie got some custom sandals at Zora’s.  There is also dinner with friends at various spots on St. Thomas, or go to St. Johns. Here there is great snorkeling and swimming at Maho, Frances, and Caneel Bays to mention just a few, as well as hiking all over the island.

Dinner on Ocean Wings

Dinner at Island View with friends

Suzanne's birthday dinner

 

An Octopus hiding in a hole

 

The bug parade

Nice cars

 

Of course there are parties and events all around. We went to the University of the Virgin Island’s Taste of Spring celebration. There was all kinds of foods with a food contest and a parade of classic cars.

fire jugler at taste of Spring

The Spring Queens

 

 

 

 

 

One of the food tents with local dishes

There were lots of kids activities

 

 

 

 

 

 

Concert at Crown Bay

 

Beautiful Coral at Culebra

Another Octopus

 

 

 

 

We also sailed to Culebra to meet friends and snorkel as the water and snorkeling is wonderful!

 

Leslie at Culebra

 

Templet for Scuba tank holder

The completed tank holder

 

What do you do? Well when all else fails there is always the list of projects and maintenance waiting to be done.

The tank holders installed

Tanks in the holders

Varnish the engine hatches

 

 

 

Putting a gasket on oven

New anchor bow roller with anchor guards

 

 

 

 

 

 

Carl spicing 8 strand to chain

The finished splice

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lelsie with new tables at Leverick

Completed scuba shop at Leverick

 

We made a last trip to BVI North Sound, one of our favorite places, and started to get the boat ready to haul out. We had a great close hauled tack up the Francis Drake Passage and got passed by some Maxi boats racing around Virgin Gorda.

New shops at Leverick under
construction

Maxi boat heading for the start

 

 

 

 

 

Michael Beans with 81 year old father
on the wash board

crowd sailing away with Beans

 

We also caught a last show of Michael Beans.

 

Of Course just as we were leaving Brewers Bay, Carl did something to his right leg and could barely walk! So mornings were spent stretching and rubbing his knee and leg. At Leverick he had 2 massages and 2 acupuncture treatments and is now almost back to normal.

Midnight Rambler crew

Midnight Rambler Leaving Maho Bay

We will soon be putting Frolic up for the year as we will be sailing on Midnight Rambler with Peg and August to Tampa Florida. It promises to be a leisurely and fun trip and should take 6 – 8 weeks. Then since we will be in the states we will start a land travel marathon to visit as many friends as we can.  From there we will hopefully fly to Australia to visit family we haven’t seen since 2006, many new additions await our acquaintance. 

Frolic out of the water after 3 months