We had a nice walk back to Rachel’s Bubble Bath, where we had an Antillean Nighthawk talking in the sky. I saw on small crab just chilling on some coral, and then another small crab eating an urchin. Still no elusive octopus!  The following morning we headed up to O’Bryan’s to snorkel the aquarium again.…

Sunday has us doing the monument hike (which we should rename mosquito hike!) and then a play on the sea side. After we took a break for lunch, it was back to the chat and chill for more chatting, chilling, playing, and ray petting. On Monday we moved up to Rudder Cut Cay, one of…

We left Hog Cay for Flamingo Cay. We had a nice snorkel (I got to hang out with a cute little goby), but the shark the greeted us at the boat decided to come entirely too close to shore so we aborted the snorkel and swim. We took a hike across the island to snorkel…

Our passage fell into a routine. The occasional cargo ship seen, a few cruise ships heading to the Dominican Republic, and a new one for us – trees floating by in the Mona passage and Dominican Republic/Haiti waters. Would hate to hit one of those at night. We didn’t catch any fish – just loads…

St Croix was full of fun things. A spotted eagle ray did a swim by right after we dropped anchor. We had a snorkel at Fredericksted pier followed by lunch at Polly’s, then a tour of the Cruzan Rum distillery, and pizza for dinner with blueberry cream cake for dessert. During our snorkel of the…

Oh I forgot – Chris installed a new remote furuno display at the helm last week. The screen was burnt out on the old one. So much data available at our fingertips now! Tuesday found us coming off the Lagoon Marina dock and searching for a dentist. We totally struck out! Tried both the Dutch…

And somehow it happened – my birthday arrived. Happy birthday in St Maarten! We had Indian food again – so good – and shared lemon cake for dessert. It’s crazy how quickly the days, months, and years fly by. Speaking of the days flying by, it was time for Honey & Papa to fly back…

After Eva leaving on Monday, it was back to work to move Two Fish from the boatyard over to Lagoon Marina. This was our first time rafting up to another boat and I had some anxiety. Didn’t want to bump into anyone. Thankfully, it was handled easily and our boat neighbor, Junior, is super awesome…

After the windy day on board our neighbor boat, Odara, who has a daughter on board, invited us to come to the IGY yacht club pool bar to have lunch and let the kids swim in the pool. Yes, it’s still super windy but we felt better about leaving Two Fish as she held well…

Jost! We finally made it to Jost Van Dyke. Woohoo! We won the boatyball lottery and managed to secure a ball in the harbor. Boatyball is a mooring ball management service and at 7am reservations for the day open up. By 7:01 the balls are all reserved. I was thrilled to get a ball for…