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| The Family Arrives |
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| Tali's First ferry ride |
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| Cloe gets into boat life |
On the 4th of July Eric, Kelly, and the girls
arrived! Unfortunately they arrived too late for the St John Parade. A friend
of ours, Wilma, picked them and Carl up at the airport and brought them to the
Redhook Ferry. The ferry was a new experience for Tali and Cloe, and a long
day. After a little beach time and dinner we went back to the boat with plans
to watch the fireworks from Caneel Bay, except for the grandparents watching
fireworks the rest of the family was asleep before 9 PM.
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The beach at Honeymoon in St John
Alan joins us |
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| Cigar night on the boat |
The next morning my brother Alan came over and spent the
day with us on Honeymoon Beach on St. John.
He had never met his grand nieces before so it was a great meeting. It
was a great relaxing day on the beach. Eric and Carl went for a dive at the
point and refilled the tanks before we headed over to Maho Bay. The beach there
was great and the get together celebrated with cigars that night. As it was
late Alan spent the night, sleeping on the trampoline.
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| Maho was a fun time |
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| We Flew a kite from the boat |
Maho was a fun time with makeup, kite flying and sand fun.
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| The kite is prepared by Eric and Cloe |
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| Eric and Tali dive |
At Maho we saw Cloe snorkeling without her life vest!
Eric took Tali in the water and let her use the octopus to have her first scuba
dive!
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| Cloe snorkels without her life vest! |
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| Cloe is a snorkeler! |
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| Eric on the prowl |
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| Kelly is back into the diving! |
Carl, Kelly, and Eric took the boat over to Whistling Cay
for a dive. It was a nice dive.
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| beautiful coral |
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| A rainbow Parrot fish |
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| Tali pays the mooring fee |
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| Tali up the mast |
We went to put up a big flag, but the flag halyard broke
so Tali asked to go up and get the end of the halyard. Eric and Carl put her in
the boatswain’s chair and she retrieved the wayward halyard.
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| Cloe is ready for the sun |
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| Cloe dances on the beach |
We sailed to Normand’s Island, which of course was up
wind, tacking our way up the end of Drake’s Passage. Normand’s was much changed
from the last time they were there several years ago, and the girls had a ball
on the beach!
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| Ahh! Boat life! |
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| Eric checks our position |
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| Kelly and Tali snorkel overhead |
The next day Eric and Carl did a dive in Kelly’s cove
while Kelly and Tali snorkeled overhead.
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| The fish were pretty |
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| Eagle Ray Glides by |
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| Eric plays with an Arrow Crab |
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| The Gennaker flies well! |
After the dive Eric picked up Leslie
and Cloe and we had a downwind sail under the Gennaker to Little Lameshur Bay
where we viewed the VIERS museum on the underwater habitat that was there in
the 70s.
Our last day together was another great downwind sail
under the Gennaker to Yacht Haven Grand where we took a slip for the night and
enjoyed the pool before they left early the next morning. A wonderful, but too
short, visit!
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| An Exhausting sail back |
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Leslie, John, and Page, note the Carib label is on
upside down. A rare bottle! |
A couple days after the kids left friends of ours, John and Page with their kids Camille and Andrew, who had been staying in the BVI contacted us and we were able to get together for a couple hours before they flew back home. It was great to catch up with them a bit and we look forward to getting together next year.
