Cane Garden Bay, Tortola, BVI
Harmonie
Don and Anne Myers
Thu 6 Dec 2007 19:44
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18:25.659N 64:39.682W
On Tuesday (12/4) we left Jost Van Dyke island and
motorsailed the four miles to Cane Garden Bay on the island of Tortola (picture
1, gorgeous). The bay was packed with moorings, leaving very little room
for anchoring, so we joined all the charter boats and picked up a mooring.
Speaking of which, we've changed our mooring approach and capture
tactics - now Don goes up to the bow to pick up the mooring line while I
steer the boat. Not surprisingly, we haven't missed a mooring line on the
first try since this change in tactics.
The guide book indicated that one of the many beach
bar/restaurants in Cane Garden Bay offers internet service, so we packed up the
computer in its special watertight case and dinghied to the dinghy dock through
the considerable sea swell. Our first stop was the Rhymer Beach Hotel to
pay for our mooring. On a whim, Don asked the desk clerk if the hotel
had internet service we could use. She immediately said yes, that the bar
had wifi. Excellent. We made our way into the open air beach bar,
ordered two beers and fired up our laptop. No internet. We asked the
bartender and he pointed to what seemed to be the manager. She said the
wifi should be working, 'Someone was just using it this morning'. She then
went to an area in the corner of the bar where a bunch of wires were hanging
from the ceiling and rustled around back there for a while. Still
nothing. We sipped our beers and said, 'Welcome to the Caribbean!' to each
other, reminding ourselves that we were not in Kansas anymore. We sat a
little longer. Suddenly, 'Beep!' goes the laptop. Aha - an internet
connection. The manager came by and we told her it was working. 'Oh
good' she said, 'I just unplugged and plugged everything back in, that must have
made it work.'. No argument from us. With fingers crossed we caught
up on email, blog entries, banking, health insurance and rally stuff.
Three beers later we packed up the laptop and headed back to the boat.
Success. Picture 2 shows Don at work on the internet in our beach bar
office. Life is definitely rough down here in the tropics.
I realize that there has been a lack of sunset
pictures on the blog lately. Sorry about that. Believe it or
not, fantastic sunsets are hard to come by in the Virgin Islands. The
whole sunset process happens very fast compared to up north and it's rare to see
the array of colors that we are used to. Also, the sunset is often blocked
by the mountains on the neighboring island. Such hardship. However,
on Tuesday in Cane Garden Bay, we were treated to a very nice Caribbean sunset
(picture 3).
Anne
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