New and Familiar Places

Sue and Gordon got a place to stay at Nanny Cay and needed to watch over their boat and negotiate with the insurance company, so we sadly left them behind. The North swell and winds were still up so we headed to Trellis Bay for the Full moon party. We took a mooring run by the Last Resort at about 1 PM and settled ourselves. Beagle Knot was in the bay so we made arrangements to eat together at the Last Resort. At 4 PM we got ready to go pickup Ladonna and Denis to go to dinner when the man came to collect for the mooring. He asked if we had reservations, and we said we had dinner reservations, but he asked if we reserved the mooring. We never knew you could reserve a mooring! He said yes you could, but since we had dinner reservations we could stay the night, but we could not stay tomorrow as it was reserved for the full moon festival. We asked the cost and he said it was $30 today, but tomorrow it was $130 with a $70 certificate for dinner at the Last Resort. Wow!

Don't pick up this mooring unless you have talked to
The Last Resort

The Last Resort is Trellis Bay

 We picked up Ladonna, Denis and Ladonna’s mother, Betty, and her friend Bonnie. It was a nice dinner, but a bit pricey. In the morning we kept a sharp look out for boats leaving and grabbed the mooring quickly. We then went ashore. Trellis Bay has changed! Everyone has expanded and all has been newly painted. We hiked the beach to the point and found a tree fort. That night was a great party with the music, food, fire balls, and fire dancers. We met Sue and Gordon, as well as LaDonna and Denis and company on the beach and ate the barbeque at the little store and enjoyed the night.

The fire man at Trellis Bay

The Loose Mongoose has added
attractions 

A new patio at the Loose Mongoose and
and expanded bar

A new entrance to Aragorn's

The drift wood carvings at Aragon's
are really great!

There are a lot of wood carvings

We found a tree house on the beach

The Full Moon Party Begins!

The fire balls are always neat!

We and Beagle Knot in
Money Bay at Normans

Just us now Beagle Knot left.

We accompanied Beagle Knot to Money Bay on Normans Island which was deserted. We snorkeled the bay and saw the biggest Parrot Fish ever! Of course I couldn’t get a picture. We also hiked around a bit the second day after Beagle Knot had left.

Leslie relaxes on the beach

The trees look like something out of Tolkin!

The fish at the caves are great!

We Cruised up to Norman’s bight and snorkeled the caves before anchoring behind the Willie T. We swam to the Willie T and had a great time and met some people who invited us to meet them for dinner at the Bight restaurant. We accepted and swam back to change and took the dinghy in to the dock. We had a nice meal.

Little Harbor

Stanly's honor bar

 The next day we headed to Cane Garden Bay. Since the North Swell was still strong we decided to go to Jost Van Dyke instead. We looked at Green Cay, but it was crowded so we went on to Little Harbor. We had never been there so we had to go to Stanly’s honor bar and then made dinner reservations at Harris’s Place. Since we had time we hiked to Taboos for a drink and then on to the bubbling pool. Dinner was great!

H arris's Place was really quite nice!

The bubbling pool

They had some nice lobsters

The night at Harris's was nice

We went to Great Harbor and decided to check out and head to the USVI. There we checked in and spent some time at Maho and Caneel Bay before heading to Water Island. We anchored in Honeymoon and had fun and watched a movie. However the second day we moved to Elephant B ay and anchored in deep sand as the winds and waves were to shift to the West. It was good we did as the winds and waves came in and a big Ketch at Honeymoon drug into 4 boats. We were tight, but hung in there. The storm was 3 days before turning back to the normal East. 

We test the new spreader lights. They are bright!

Carl does some splicing while we
wait for the weather

banded shrimp in Brewers Bay in
two feet of water

After getting mail and provisioning the rest of the week was used to draw up a mooring plan then more wind even stronger was forecast so  we headed over to Brewers Bay. We were a couple days late as a Humpback Whale had come into Brewers Bay and gave birth to its calf! Friends of ours saw it and watched the mother hold the baby on its fin while it caught its breath. After we got there we had a beach get together and 18 Dinghys showed up for a great time of socialization. At sundown a squall came in and chased us all off the beach.

Another storm came in out of the East Northeast and blew 30 to 40 Knots for 3 days! Everyone stayed aboard their boats for 2 days. It has abated now and we are getting ready to move on.

A black Lion Fish in Brewers just off the beach

Hard to believe this is under water!