Monthly Archives: December 2011

Tabago Keys are wonderful.

Auesome day over there, we swung by Salt Wistle bay and with the Northern swell rolling in that would have been an uncomfortable stop so we headed out to swim with the turtles. Dropped the hook and Walter came right on over and hooked us up with some yummy banana bread and a loaf of fresh bread, which immediately became lunch.

Couple of beers and jello and we were off to swim with the turtles, again with the swell and winds the water was a bit clouded up, but we did get to chase lots of turles around. On the way back we swung by a called Aggie Cat presuming they would be from Texas, but nope, just on a charter boat, and the boat was Registered to College Station. I wasn’t aware that Aggies even knew what a cat was, I figured they only knew of revelie their dawg.

Dingyed out to the reef and swam with lots and lots of fishies in the bouncy current, twas beatutiful. Big one small ones, colorful all types of fishies even a box faced puffer that I chased but he just wouldn’t puff up.

Since we were wet we headed to one of keys that would be a wet dingy ride anyway, hiked to the top and we were rewarded with a great view of the anchorage. Forgot to take the camera and being barefoot, wasn’t the smartest footware choice for over the rocks and cactus. We slso walked on a different beach on the backside of that Key. And back to the boat for some nourishment, and to let the chicken thaw out for dinner. And some dominos.

All in all the typical island day.

Don’t hurt my doggie

Cleared customs in Union Island at Clifton over at the airport. Great day so far and we are just sitting down to lobster dinner at Vanessa’s over in Chatham Bay one of our favorite spots. Normally we are one of 3 boats here but right now there are 20 boats on anchor and it’s gusting to 30 miles an hour with a pretty good surge making landing the dingy on the beach a little tricky while avoiding the rocks, but we all survived.

Over in Clifton when we cleared in we also found a couple of taters as we used all that we had previously purchased. We ran around town for a couple hours and even bought 20 gallons of water so that the water maker won’t have to be running 24×7 to keep us clean.

As we were getting set to dingy back to the boat it started to rain a bit. With rain comes wind with wind and boats on anchor in close proximities things happen. While we were out in town a local 60’+ charter boat came in and picked up their ball pretty close to us. The wind from the rain had them shift into us. We scrambled aboard and grabbed fenders to put between the boats and I think we were successful. Christine says we touched but I couldnt find a mark. We high tailed it out of there right away.