The high life

VulcanSpirit
Richard & Alison Brunstrom
Thu 17 Mar 2011 12:16
Here is Alison and our visiting friend Irene Rowland trying hard to relax in a double hammock at a beach bar at White Bay, Jost van Dyke a few days ago. This was a much busier place than on our last visit several years previously - largely caused by day trippers from the USVI coming across for lunch. I watched these boats come and go from the US islands without going anywhere near Customs & Immigration; I can just imagine what the American authorities would do if the situation were reversed. USVI Customs & Immigration are famed even in the States for their rudeness but I think their BVI counterparts are trying to outdo them in some sort unpleasantness competition.
However the whole ridiculous charade assumes its proper significance in the great scheme of world events when seen from the inside of a hammock. 

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