BVIs to Bonaire Feb. - March 2008

An uneventful ride home from Cordoba, Argentina. 48 hours in the Twin Cities, and it was off to the British Virgin Islands. I finally had a weather delay so spent the night in San Juan rather than get to Beef Island in one day. Provisioned a 37-foot boat for four people in record time, ran over budget big time but got off without too much delay on my part, cuz we had to wait to be checked out by TMM. Off we went sans one crew member who got sick from diving, but we all had dinner together the first night at Soper's Hole. The crew went ashore for the night and joined us the next morning. Stiff winds of up to 30 knots for the first half of the week so the charter class of 2 learned how to put in reefs, and luckily the second half of the week learned how to take one out. Lots of tactical manuevers, tacking and jibing, man overboard drills, heaving to's, docking, catching mooring balls, etc. Great experience. Now they need to go out sailing in light winds to see how they do.

I flew from Tortola to Bonaire for a couple of weeks of diving. I might have to say diving is fast becoming my favorite sport. Just hanging in the water looking a eels, sea turtles, frogfish, spotted drumfish, tarpin almost as big as me, and more. Life if good. There are over 50 dive sites on the island--Ole Blue, Witch's Hut, Alice in Wonderland, and more. Lots of shore dives, and boat dives of course.

Cargill Salt is here so thoughts of home are close by.