Saba Rock 4-9

The kids are hanging out watching movies this morning. Tim and Katie go over to check out Bitter End. The East shore of Prickly Pear Island is just a couple hundred feet away from our mooring, so when the See’s are back Tracy and I take the kids over to explore. There’s not a lot here, just empty beach with lots of mangroves growing along the shore. We walk down to the southern shore, finding lots of conch shells and driftwood.

The kids are ready to go back to the boat, so we drop them off and then Tracy and I head around the point to the small beach bar called the Sandbox. Its a nice beach with lots of chairs and a sand volleyball court. There is a small cruise ship in the bay, and they are all set up to cater to the cruisers, with a large buffet set up.  Other than that, the bar itself is empty and not all that appealing. So we head back to the boat for lunch.

After lunch the kids and I take a high speed dinghy ride out into Eustatia Sound to see what is around the corner. We have seen a lot of boats go by in this direction, and we’re curious what is there. There are two more islands out here – Necker's, owned by Richard Branson, and Eustatia Island. Necker's is too far away, and there are only a couple of housed on Eustatia, So we aren’t sure where all the boats were going. On the north shore of Prickly Pear we find a totally deserted beach, and decide it would be a great place to spend the afternoon. We head back to get the rest of the adults. We come back in a few minutes, but its no longer deserted, there are now 3 dinghies on the beach and kid setting up a kite surfer. Beaching the dinghy is easy and soon we are relaxing in the sand. The girls swim and Noah finds some rocks to climb.

The ride back to the boat is right into the wind. With 8 people, the dinghy doesn’t get up on plane so we just slowly push through the waves. Each wave is crashing over and sending spray all over us. We are all drenched by the time we make it back to the boat. Its already after 5, so we have a quick rinse and head back in to another round at happy hour. This time we remember the camera and get some good shots of them feeding the eels and tarpon. There is even a small nurse shark that comes by to clean up the scraps.

For dinner we head over to the Bitter End.  We go for the casual place down by the marina instead of their formal dining room. This works well, they have pizza and a pool table inside for the kids to play while we take our time with dinner. They even have a large projection TV showing the pistons, and then the Masters. After dinner we look around for the CIC burgee, but we have no luck.