Grocery Stores on Island

Posted on February 13, 2012

I was scared to think about how long it took someone to stock these shelves like this in Riteway..I have seen how long it takes them to stock just normal shelves!

The procedure for stocking shelves here is:

Place all your carts of supplies in the small aisle. Block most of it. Bring a sitting stool alongside the shelf. Pick up one can at a time, while sitting, put it on shelf. Look at you funny if you think you are going to get them to move to get your cart by…

Stocking shelves...an art form!

Although, this other store was going to be busy as the shelves here were looking pretty bare the same day, and the pasta I did buy had weevils in it…

bare shelves

Because I love night pictures so much…

Posted on February 12, 2012

Night time at Village Cay Marina, Roadtown, Tortola

Our yacht, Promenade on dock tonight

an update on SCUBA diving around Salt Island- Lion Fish too!

Posted on February 12, 2012

I was able to spend an entire day and night at Salt Island this last week on charter! Yippee!! Hope I am that lucky again this week. The viz was absolutely amazing for photography as you can tell from there pictures…

Snorkeling at Man Head Point on Salt Island

Salt Island

Snorkeler's at Salt Island

Fish Pots in the water…

Fish pots at Salt

And of course, the Lion Fish..We found some, we missed some, we shot some, and the Spotted Eels know exactly what we are doing with them there and wait almost impatiently for their meal!

Lion Fish

Lion Fish- Spotted Moray Eel eating him

Some SCUBA diving around Salt Island

Posted on February 12, 2012

yeah, my favorite place in the world, and somewhere I have not had the chance to spend very much time at all this year, the seas have been up whenever we have wanted to go there.

Lion Fish at Salt Island

There is quite a community of Lion fish in the Salt Anchorage lately though..Have been killing them there for the last year, but the population is definitely growing…

Lion Fish at Salt Island

I have so many “friends” there, eels, turtles, anemones (which are also plentiful at this time of year…) and now apparently lots of Lion Fish too!

Spotted eel..He will eat the lion fish if you feed them to him

Around Salt Island anchorage

Around Salt Island anchorage..The Lion Fish better not eat my anemones!

Salt Anchorage

Salt Island anchorage

I certainly hope that we get a chance to stay overnight there on charter this week My camera is getting dusty I think…

All these pictures of Lion Fish remind me that someone may be interested to read what I wrote about them on one of my other blogs last week…

LIONFISH and REEF GUARDIANS and BVISO

SWIFT sailing swiftly through the British Virgin Islands

Posted on February 9, 2012

At 107′ feet and able to sustain over 30 knots, this baby will not take long to sail through the Virgin Islands..

We spotted it this morning coming down the Sir Francis Drake…

swift sailing catamaran

You two can purchase it (for 6 guests and 4 crew) at around 4 million dollars. Apparently it just came from Australia around the Cape…It has a beam on it of 54′! Incredible..

54' beam...sailing at over 30 knots, SWIFT

If you are interested in purchasing, here is the link!

Water Color Blues & Greens of the sea & Sky…

Posted on February 8, 2012

Fooling around with colors and pictures..while waiting for guests...

Money Bay, Norman Island

air bubbles on the surface of the water

Cane Garden Bay, Tortola….yesterday evening…

Cane Garden Bay, Tortola, BVI

Cane Garden Bay, Tortola

OK, one more from last night…I had a long time to wait for the dinghy to pick me up since it took 24 hours for CCT to deliver the phone calls and texts to our cel phone at Cane Garden Bay..