Stranded

 

The old winch

New winch and controls, hard to
see a difference!

We spend 5 days running wires and installing the electric winch for the main sheet and halyard. Then another day to replace the water maker high pressure pump, including a trip to the store to buy a stainless steel elbow that cost $85! 

Don and Debbie at Cruz Bay

We swim at Solomon Beach

Took a break, Thursday, to visit friends of ours, Debbie and Don, who are vacationing on St John, we hiked to Solomon and Honeymoon Beaches on St John, wandered around Mongoose Junction,  and had lunch at Woodys before we headed back to Redhook, and a Safari back to the boat.

Honeymoon Beach at St John

Looking out at Honeymoon

Wine and beer at Honeymoon Beach

Cruz Bay St John

Debbie and Don on our boat Frolic

Dinghys at Honeymoon Beach
Water Island, yes 2 Honeymoon
Beaches

We went to church on Sunday and just finished the normal weekly cleaning and maintenance when we got a call from Don and Debbie that their flight back to RI had been cancelled due to a big snow storm in the NE. They were stranded at the airport and could they come spend the night with us. We of course said, “Great, we will met you at the ferry!” Well after a lunch at Dinghys on Honeymoon Beach Water Island, they check their e-mail and discover their rebook for Monday was cancelled and a call resulted in them not being able to get a flight home until Wednesday!

On the lookout at Ft Segarra

One of the gun emplacements

Well we had a great time with them! We hiked Water Island to Fort Segarra, the lookout, and explored the tunnels finding old gun pits.

Heidi's on the other end of
Honeymoon Beach

Debbie and Don getting ready for
the movie

We went to Heidi’s Beach Movie and saw the movie Box Trolls. The movie wasn’t great, but the experience of sitting on a beach watching a movie through palm trees can’t be beat!

Movie on Honeymoon Beach Water Island

free rum at Bones in Charlotte Amelia

We also took The Safari to Charlotte Amelia and explored main street, after some rum at Bones, and when Wednesday came they relaxed on the beach until we had to bid them adu’.

A wrecked "dwelling" on the way up
to the caves

The caves we hiked to are on the
rock outcropping you see above about
2/3 the way up the hill

While they and Leslie relaxed on the beach I led Dan and Rose up the hill to the caves and rock look out. It was a 50 
minute hike up and 30 back. We ran into a couple of wasp nests and we all got a bite or two, but the view up there is spectacular!

Rose and Dan hiking up the trail

Dan and Rose at the top

Carl finishes the climb up the cliff

What a view from up there!

Wahoo!! we made it back!

Debbie and Don leave us

The Bay after the big rain!
It was brown as far as the eye could see

beach eroaded from the rain
It was nice and level!

Then Friday night we had the rain come in. A group of us went up to Island View for a pre Valentine dinner and it was drizzling rain, but when we returned it was pouring rain! It rained all night and all morning the next day. The airport reported 9” of rain, but a bucket left on deck was full of water and a friend who forgot to remove the plug from his dinghy had his divit bent leads us to believe we got more like 12” of rain. As a result the entire bay was brown and the beach had multiple gullies worn in it! No swimming or water making for a while. 

Sundowners on Exit Strategy

We did get together on Exit Strategy for sun downers though. You can’t stop a good party!

Rick and Nia arrive at Havensight
off the cruise ship

We took them to a restaurant on
St John, Skinny Legs

A few days later friends of ours, Rick and Nia, arrived on a cruise ship. So we met them and took them to St John and Coral Bay. We took the $1 bus to Coral Bay and checked out the bay. We then had lunch at Skinny Legs before heading back to Cruz Bay where we walked around before getting the ferry and taxi back to the ship where we, once again, had to say good bye to friends.

The Landings on St John

We stop at Woodys 

Ready to depart on the cruise ship

Time to continue with the repairs and projects on Frolic.