Category Archives: Spanish Virgin Islands

Joy continues her reputation as a bird magnet– of the feathered variety of course.  Meet Mr Martin and his wife Mabel, they have been visiting us two to three times a day for the last two weeks.  The reason for … Continue reading →

We hired a jeep last week for an Island tour, having arranged for us to collect it from the Blue Horizon resort near Esperanza we discovered after over an hours walk that the car wasn’t there after all. It was … Continue reading →

The beach that we had anchored off looked pretty amazing even in the failing light, as the sun went down we were both looking forward to exploring the next day. Sun Bay has a wonderful sandy beach, about a mile … Continue reading →

Our settled weather window didn’t arrive, strong trade winds continued to howl around the rigging and one day we had a storm come over which tested the holding.  For us, no problem, but two others anchored behind us obviously felt … Continue reading →

After a great sail back up to St Martin where we stocked up again with some maintenance items and parts from the chandleries, and of course some gorgeous French cheeses and pates, we set off east to St Thomas for … Continue reading →