Wednesday Afternoon

We've had a great couple of days. We had dinner on monday at the "last resort" which is located on a rock in the center of Trellis Bay. It was great - the place has it's own pet Burro that hangs out around the restaurant. It can't go far - unless it's not afraid to swim.

Tuesday morning, we headed to White Bay on Jost Van Dyke. It's a nice little anchorage inside a reef with a 'half moon' shaped bay - beach. It's the mystery picture below. We had a little problem with the anchor holding. After the first try - in 6 feet of water, I dove the anchor and watched it drag slowly. It was kinda skipping over some small rocks on the bottom. We pulled the anchor up and tried again. This time it caught on a large rock and after checking it out - we decided to stay on it for a while.

We swam ashore to the Soggy Dollar Bar (wonder why the call it that?) and had a 'painkilla' - which was invented at this bar. After a while, we walked down the beach to Ivan's "stress free" bar and hung in a hammock for a while in the shade.

In the afternoon, we motored East a couple of miles to Great Harbour and anchored there in 20 feet of water. We had dinner at Foxy's (very famous place).

This morning we read our books in the cockpit until about 9 am and then set sail for Cane Garden Bay. This is a cool little village. Great anchorage (we're on a mooring). We can see St Thomas in the west (Jimmy Buffet wrote the Manana song here - "while the lights of St. Thomas are 20 miles west - I see that General Electric's still doing their best).

Tomorrow, we'll sail around the west end of Tortola - between St. John (America) and Tortola (UK) and head south to Norman's Island. Should be a blast. I'll post photos when I get home.

By the way, we're sailing a Moorings 362 (Beneteau 36). It's a nice enough boat. More about that later.