Look Out!!

Here's a sight that you definately don't want to see. Yikes! Luckily we were safetly anchored in St. Thomas when this cruise ship pulled out of port. The closest that we usually get to any vessel this size on the water is about a mile and sometimes even that feels awfully close.

We've put a lot of miles under the keel since I last updated this blog. From Samana we headed out across the Mona Passage for the trip over to Puerto Rico. This is a 24 hours undertaking and it all went pretty well. We arrived in Boqueron Harbour just as the sun set feeling a great sense of accomplishment. With the Mona behind us, we have the majority of the upwind parts of this journey behind us. Now, most islands are within sight of each other and can be reached in an easy day sail. After the many night sails along the Dominican Republic we are looking forward to being out and about in daylight. By the way, all the night sailing is due to a weather thing...of course. Winds drop significantly at night along the coastlines of large islands - making it much easier to make progress into them. Once we reached Puerto Rico we continued along the South coast in short hops...Cabo Rico to Ponce to Salinas. From there we got incredibly lucky with the weather and we were able to head straight for the Virgin Islands in one go. We stopped in St. Thomas for a night and then continued on to Soper's Hole, Tortola. Now we'll take the opportuntiy to visit a bunch of beautiful anchorages that we know well. Roy already bought the Pussers Rum Painkiller Kit and we are going to have a special toast to the BVI...