Day 2 3/22/10: All hands on Deck

Ok, sorry for the delay all. I guess the down side of going to remote places is that finding wifi is pretty impossible…O and i uploaded a map of the BVIs so you guys can kinda follow me though the voyages. That being said, lets continue...

Ok, so where was i when i last left off…. uhhhhhh… oh yeah! Sleepin under the stars, ok well, like i said, i deferred to sleeping in the main salon at about 4am. After everyone woke up Don and Barb made us some breakfast. Twas quite superb, eggs and toast. After this we took the dingy into the beach in pirates bight to check out a trail we heard about. This also allowed time for the charter company to come out and tend to some needed fixes on our boat.

Well the hike definitely turned out to be worth it. We got some awesome views of the North and South aspects of the island. Just check the pics, on the back there were these cool cliffs with wave spray crashing at their feet. And on the north we got a sweet view of the bight from up high.

After the trail we swam back out to the boat (some of us dingeyed it back) and it was time to get down to bizniss, oh yeah, sailing. So we raised the sails and headed out into the Sir Francis Drake channel. We were ready for some wind and man o' man, wind is what we got!

Out in the channel white caps were everywhere. The waves were big rolling swells and the easterly trade winds were hitting us at 20-25 knots! Our first destination: Marina Cay, so we set out on a close hauled north easterly course, then up around the Bluff of Beef island, and finally north west to Marina Cay, (Cay means tiny isle, and its pronounced Key).

Marina Cay was a cool isle indeed. There is a coral reef just off of it providing calm waters for a good mooring spot at night. We cleaned up and took a dingy into shore for a show at the Hill Top Bar in Robb White House called "Happy Hour". This guy Michael Bean was dressed up like a pirate and put on quite an entertaining show. I really liked him, not just because he could play the guitar, harmonica and foot drums all at the same time, or cuz he was dressed up like a pirate, (although that didn't hurt! lol) but rather i liked him cuz he had this huge smile while he performed and you could just tell that he REALLY enjoyed making people happy. I also really liked how he kept the whole show really clean. To many times these days people figure they have to be dirty to make a show funny. Frankly, this is completely false. The truly funny people can be funny without having to rely on shock value or dirty jokes, rather they use wit and the actual gift of humor…what a novel idea?!?!?!

I got some good shots of the Cay, check em out. After the show we had dinner on the beach. I had chicken linguinie, i know i know, go all the way to the carribean and have an Olive Garden Entree?!?!?! Well when you get good carribean eating at home all the time, sometimes its best not to compare with gramas cookin! lol you might just come away disappointed…. ;)