Roosters

(Originaly blogged on 'ilon May 24th) (Added photos after)

Location: Road Town, Tortola.
Sitting here at Conch Charters' dock with the constant sound of roosters heckling/cackling or whatever.

We arrived to BVI via San Juan yesterday event free which is allways a good thing. Left TPA at 7:45, arrived in San Juan at 10:40. Made some last minute phone calls while we could still reach a Verzion cell tower waiting for our "puddle jumper" to Tortola. Took off at 12 noon on a turbo-prop 1/3 full. Flew just 7ooo feet and had a steep landing at EIS at about 1.

Once we got to Conch Charters we headed to the Pub for some food followed by a run to Bobby's (provisioning) since we couldn't get on the boat until 4:30.

When we made our TICO (beverage) order we told them to deliver as late in the day as possible. They came at 11am and left since Conch wouldn't sign the delivery receipt.

When we got back from Bobbys we were able to get on the boat. Unpacking luggage and 10 days worth of food is no fun.


Good news is Russ from Conch Charters came by to check on us as he was heading out. He noticed we had food and asked if we wanted to go over the fridge system and how to charge it via the engines, ect. Even though I have chartered this same boat, its always good for a refresher. In any event, he decided to do the whole boat "checkout" since it would make it easier on him the next day having to checkout 4 other charter customers in the morning. It's good for us because its one thing out of the way for this morning. Now all we need to do is some final paperwork and a chart briefing.

Once we got settled in, and unpacked we chilled in the cockpit for a bit and crashed early because of a long day.

As soon as we can get cleared out we will be sailing to The Caves, a great snorkeling stop, then onto Norman Island for the night.

Since there is no Internet on Norman, we'll have to update at our lunch stop tomorrow at Cooper Island.


`Bryan