White Bay
Beez Neez now Chy Whella
Big Bear and Pepe Millard
Tue 19 Jan 2010 23:27
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White Bay, Jost Van
Dyke
  As the famous song goes "Sitting on the floor of the bay"
  Quick check, anchor set
nicely
We left Little Bay for the exhausting
mile and a half journey passing Great Harbour to anchor in White Bay, home of
the famous Soggy Dollar Bar. We dropped the anchor where we should but as we
went backward to set it, the depth below the keel said 0.1 metre. Quick snorkel
to have a look and there was Beez sitting three inches from the floor of the
bay. Up anchor, move twenty feet, reset and 0.8 metre below us in clear
sand.
 Below this chap
was cunningly disguised
  We snorkeled the reef near us and this
brain coral was the most perfect we have ever see,
the size of a dustbin lid. A little blenny playing in
the sun.
 A whole blanket of
anemones, not a Nemo in sight though
 After lunch it was time to leave Beez Neez to go ashore for the serious part of the
day
  To buy a
Painkiller in the Soggy Dollar
 Somehow it's the best from it's
birthplace. Bear agrees
 When it all gets too tiring there are
plenty of beds available to sleep it off
  We strolled to the next bar where
Gertrude left Bear to mix our own drinks while she
went for a bath, hair shampooed, time to do an Ursula Andress
 Then it was time to return to Beez for liver, bacon, onions
and a glass of vino, a game of backgammon, a shower and an episode of Numb3rs
(yes- that's how it's spelt) - what a day
ALL IN ALL HAD TO BE ABLE TO
SAY "BEEN THERE AND GOT THE T-SHIRT"
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