We decided to sail over to Vieques on Sunday. The trip was 31 knots and it was down wind. I let Karen plan and execute the trip because she really doesn’t get to do that a lot. I think she is a better sailer than she knows, but she lacks confidence. Hopefully if she can do more trips like that she will gain confidence.
Viques is an island off of Puerto Rico and it’s pronounced (B-a’-gus) It and Culebra are the two Spanish virgin islands. It was used for a bombing range for the Navy during World War Two and some of it is still off limits.
They mainly speak Spanish here but so far most everyone we talked with spoke english. The island seems to have a lot of visitors. More than I thought there would be. The south side of the island is all beaches. They must have twelve different beaches and they all have 10 of 15 people on them. Just about everyone is a tourist and they are happy to talk with you. They also like dogs. Which is very different than St Thomas.
Even though there are more people there are still a lot of places where you anchor by yourself. Most of the tourists go home in the late afternoon. So we are here by ourselves. That is kind of a nice feeling, having one of these beautiful beaches to ourselves.
The other night we spent the night at a bio-bay. The bay lights up at night when you disturb the water. We disturbed it with our dinghy and the water coming off the prop lit up. We didn’t see many fish trails though in the water like the last time we were here.
Last night we had a fire on the beach. I always want to have a fire on the beach, I haven’t had one in thirty years because there isn’t any place to have them anymore. But last night I got some wood together and we had a fire. It was just Karen and I and it only lasted one and one half hours but it was fun. I started it with just one match and a little bit of paper out of our garbage can. I guess that boy scout training payed off.
On the beach
The boat
Lexie with the Frisbee
Lexie and Max fighting for the frisbee
The walkway in Esaranza
A sunset
Viques's light house
Beautiful! !!
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