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2013 New years Day beech Party Charchter Beech St Martin "Big Jolly" |
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2013 New years Day beech Party Charchter Beech St Martin "Big Jolly" b |
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Friday !! Great knight out at Lagoonies Bar, Dutch side of St Martin, With entertainment from Yachting Guy "Tony" sailing Ketch "Ragin Cagin. He came up from Grenada with us. |
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Friday !! Great knight out at Lagoonies Bar, Dutch side of St Martin, Local band Playing for us !! |
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Goodbye From Skipper first Mate and Sheilah, leaving St Martin for the BVI "British Virgin Islands" !! |
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Leaving Lagoon St Martin through lifting bridge 17th Jan 32013 |
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Virgin Gorda, British Virgin Islands , "One of the few Islands we still own" !! 18th Jan2013 |
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Virgin Gorda Marina looking over to Tortola |
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Dutch couple we met in St Martin, they became good friends and hope to vist there home in America whrer they have lived for the past 20 Years. Dutch and Rinska Bult their yacht (Bruce Roberts Design) themselves in there Gardan at home, !! |
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Skipper and Crew, First steps in Virgin Gorda Marina, BVI "British Virgin Islands" one of the few we still own !! 18th Jan 2013 |
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Virgin Gorda Sound North , Picture from Saba Rock overlooking Estatia Island, Jan 2013 |
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Butterfly tree ! "well thats what we call it" covered with cabbage type butterflys,! Prickly pear Island Virgin Gorda Sound North |
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Beech Babes !! The Baths "Caves" Virgin Gorda |
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The Baths Beech, "The Caves" Virgin Gorda South |
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Deadmans Beech Peter Island Resort |
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Deadman Beech Peter Island, Very beautiful !! BVI |
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Floating Bar "The Bight" Norman Island BVI |
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Marina Cay Dinghy Landing Looking to Scub Island BVI Very beautiful here |
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Marina Cay Fuel Doc with Phone Box !!!! BVI |
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This Pelicans got Nerve !!!! |
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Peter Island Resort BVI "How the other tourists live" |
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Road Harbour Tortola "Capital Of BVI" |
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Saba Rock Virgin Gorda sound North BVI Probly one of the best view bar setting in the world |
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Marina Cay BVI |
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Saba Rock Garden Virgin Gorda Sound North BVI |
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Sheilah Virgin Gorda Sound North BVI overlooing Saba Rock and Bitter End |
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"Maaan Dee !" Skipper Chilled to the core !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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Snorkling The Caves Norman Island BVI |
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Sprat Bay Peter island BVI |
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Suzy on Saba Rock overlooking Estasisa Isl BVI |
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More Caves "Baths" Girgin Gorda South BVI wonder of Nature !! Humungus Granit Boulders created by moulten rock solidifieng under huge presure , then the fault lines of the tectonic plate forced them to the surface ! give or take a few million years and pich of salt !!!! |
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More Caves "Baths" Girgin Gorda South BVI |
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The Indians "Rocks off Pelican Island BVI Great place to snorkle !! |
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We must be getting closer to USA "American Virgin Island 2 miles away !! |
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Yachts at anchor Great Bay Peter Island BVI |
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Alone on Little Jos-Van-Dyke "Still in BVI" !! Very small Island only about 200 peoples liviing here ! "Not sure that includes Yachties" ! |
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Had to name theis pic "Boob Job" !! British sence of humour !! |
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Beech Bars dont get any ruff and ready as this !! Jos-Van-Dyke BVI |
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No wonder Suzy`s smiling !!!! More Jos-Van-Dyke humour |
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Famous Foxes Bar Jos-Van-Dyke BVI |
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Just in case you wondered what Suzy did all day !! Outside Foxes Bar Jos-Van-Dyke |
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Inside Foses Bar Jos-Van-Dyke BVI Had very nice burger and chips here ! "English Fish and chips from chip sop been on my mind" !! |
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Feb 2013 Sheilah Flying the Stars and Stripes !! Cruze Bay St John Island USVI United States Virgin Islands other main Islands include St Thomas and St Croix |
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My mind wondered from stars and stripes !!! Cruze Bay Beech St Jonh UVI |
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Cruze Bay National Park Visiters Centre Cruze Bay st John. The park now owens most of St John and is trying to bye the remainder. Most of the money came from the Rockerfeela fortune i belive ? "Now in trust " |
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Ariving in the USVI St John Island Feb 2013 |
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Hoisting the Staes and strips on Sheilah Cruze Bay USVI United Stats Virgin Island Feb 2013 |
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Law enforcment American style !! Taste of what we got to come !! We thought we had regulations ! Boy they got more regulations than they no what to do with !! |
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Little and Great Lamershur Bay St John Island UVI Met Rick and Nancy from yacht "Nancy Ellen" Rick and me hicked all over to reef Bay and tock this picture. The are very organised here with Bay hosts installed in season ! Also little boxe were you post they $15 for mooring bouys !! |
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Sandy Spit Cay off Joss-Van-Dyke BVI Jan 2013 Owned by Rockerfell Trust and donated to The BVI 2008 "Starange because this ISland is Of BVI Quite away off UVI . So must have bought it from the British in the Dutch deal erea ?? must check !! |
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Lamershur Bay St John UVI Feb 2013 Very Prety and very quite here |
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Surfer Suzy on Buck island Off St Croix UVI Very nice !! and very popular with locals from Croix and visitors. Snorkeled reef Lagoon North of Island "Through Groto they maped out with stone tablets on seabed telling you names of fish and which way to go !! "Told you they were organised |!!! |
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Reef Bay St John UVI taken on hike form Lamershur Bay with American Rick |
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Here we are in Christensted Capital of the USVI Island of St Croix. |
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Anchorage Christiansted . St Croix USVI |
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Wye not Fly Into Christiansted !!! And land next to yacht !!!!!!! |
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Fort at Christiansted . St Crox Island UVI Built by the Dutch to keep those pesky Brits out !!!!!! and also inprison wayward plantation workers !! |
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Christensted . St Croix UVI Old Mill . Turned into bar runb by two very nice Americn Guys. And boy what a view !!! |
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Buck Island Reef Groto Entrance |
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Prostend Cay Just off Christensted Town Quay Adjasent to Yacht anchorage |
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Princess Bay. Coral Bay St John USVI This is a vast bay with Hurican Hole advantages |
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March 2013 Skipper In Brown Bay St John enjoying 10 mile hike ! |
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Met Loads of these on my Hike (Alovera Family ?) |
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Opening Bridge over Lagoon. Dewey. Culebra. (Spanish Virgin Island) Linked with Porto Rico |
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Coral Harbour St John . Home to many Livaboards and described in the Pilot book as rundown and scruffy ! Nothing seems to Have Changed ! |
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March 2013 Crown Bay ! Who`s car is this ???
(Charlotte Amalie) St Thomas March 2013 The Capital with strong trading links from the past. Some of the old warehouses still evident . Now trading comes in form of cruise liners off loading hordes of passengers into the streets with mostly jewellery shops. (I have never seen so many !) they must be in 3 figures ? the port can handle 5 Cruise Liners at a time indeed we witnessed 5 ! |
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March 2013 Crown Bay Marina Charlotte Amiela St Thomas USVI |
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March 2013 Dinghy Doc Resturant / Bar Where we spent many hours Eating ! Drinking and Internetting. Dewey . Ensada Honda. Culebra . Spanish Virgin Islands |
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March 2013 Fery Port Next to Lagoon Salinas Bay Culebra Spanish Virgin Islands |
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February 2013 Floating Bar (Any one for Drink ?? Coral Bay St John |
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Very layed back ! Good Caribbean Humour !!! |
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March 2013 Light Houses Port of Fajardo Porto Rico |
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Any one wondered where Old London Busses retire to ??? Charolotte Amalie St John ! ! ! |
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London Buses in retirment !!! |
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Mary Creek . St John USVI |
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Mary Creek 2 St John USVI |
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Suzys Restaurante |
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More Princess Bay. Coral Bay St John USVI |
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Sheilah In Ensanada Honda . Culebra Spanish Virgin Islands
Very Calm ! No Dogs barking ! Very slow pace of life ! No Rolling !
Spanish Speaking ! Stayed nearly 2 weeks here ! could have stayed much longer !! Next time !! |
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Sheilah in Lienter Bay Next to Pay Station St John USVI You have to dinghy over to the little floating pay stations and put $15 dollar’s (£10) in the box (Envelope provided) stating date. Bouy number. Yacht Name. Evan SSR number !! The lid of the envelope even has a perforated slip for you to keep ! All this on trust ! They do spot checks I ‘am told ?? |
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Charlotte Amaile St Thomas USVI Suzy Town Dinghy Doc |
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Suzy made new friend !! |
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Very busy termites ! The make trail tunel right up the tree trunk to the nest ! |
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Watermello Cay / Lienster Bay St John . Great snorkle and dive with Gabbie Holst and another Andy Paddie dive instructor on Catamiran (Catatude) very clever !! |
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Wild Donkeys in Coral Bay St John |
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March 2013
Town Quay Charlotte Amalie St Thomas |
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Febreary 2013 Culebra USVI Flaminco Beech invaded by Porto-Ricans for the Easter weekend ! this was 2 days befor !! |
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Isla Culebrita Feb 2013 SVI Suzy Hiking to Isla-culabrita Lighthouse |
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March 2013 Tortuga Beech Isla-Culebrita Culebra SVI |
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Feb 2013 At Famenco Beech Culebra SVI There are a couple of Tanks left on beech after the American Milatery left in 1975. They used Culebra for armes testing and Guarding Panama from the Germans during the 2nd world war. |
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Flamenco Beech totty ! |
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Skippert Takes dip in sea surf !!! |
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Mother and Son |
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Aidan , Pen, Archie, |
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Three Generations of Marshal Boys !! Alan , Andrew , Aidan , Archie |
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One evan climbed ladder and walked roun deck looking for suzy !! " No joke " |
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Christmas Dinner roaming about Virgin Gorda boatyard !! |