Peter Island 4-21

The wind was shifty, but light overnight. Even though we pointed in about every direction, we had no anchor problems and plenty of swinging room with the boats on moorings. Noah and I make a quick run into Bobby’s Market to pick up a few extra supplies. Every time I think that this will be the last trip to the market, but hopefully this really will be. We are down to less than a week left and it seems like we have a lot of food. Today’s run is mostly for snacks and a couple of limes (the important stuff).

The kids want to swim on shore again, so we make a quick run in and sit on the beach. Its pretty quiet, but already the steady stream of cruise ship passengers are starting to flow in. On the way back out Tracy takes a turn running the dinghy, and tries to kill me by heading straight under the boat at high speed. Its only day 49.

The night before, we ran into our friends from Culebra. They had stayed in Great Harbor on Peter Island, and mentioned that they have some floating climbing toys for the kids. Since we have never been to Great Harbor, this sounded like a good plan. We are winging it for the rest of our trip, with no real agenda. The wind is going to be too light to head up to Anegada so it frees up a few days here in the BVI.

We sail through Thatch Island cut at the west end of Tortola, and then on to Peter. The wind is dyeing as we enter the harbor. There’s a small beach resort, with an Iceberg climbing float and a large floating trampoline. The kids are very happy to see this! The harbor is very deep – over 50’ right up to shore, so not a good place to anchor so we grab a mooring ball right off the beach. As we are tying up, we see a very large ray swim by just below the surface. Prior to this, all the rays we have seen have been on the bottom, not the ‘flying’ rays. Noah launches the kayak so he and Delaina can go explore. Tracy and I sit and relax, and then dinghy in when they are ready to start swimming and using the toys.

The Iceberg is the highest we have ever seen. The kids have a great time climbing, sliding, and jumping. For a while we are the only ones on the beach, then another group of kids comes over to join the fun. A ‘cattlemaran’ also arrives with a crowd of people too.

 

We have a very relaxing afternoon, swimming and kayaking. Noah hooks up with 2 other boys his age, and they have fun climbing and jumping on the iceberg. (although the jumping stopped when they saw a big barracuda swim under the float.) Noah stays to play longer with the boys, and we dinghy back out to the boat. We are cooking up our latest Spanish mackerel catch for round 2 of fish tacos. Its going to be another warm night, as there is barely a breath of air moving. Quite a change from the first 6 weeks when the trades blew steady.