We have boarded the good boat S/V Allergic to Cities and have set sail from Tortola for the surrounding islands and anchorages. We picked up the boat on Monday, and the remaining crew for the first part of our voyage joined us after an adventure getting from Utila to Tortola via Belize, Cancun, Miami and the USVI. It is a story all by itself.
We spent the day provisioning, running errands and finalizing some details before untying on Tuesday for a run across the Sir Francis Drake Channel to Norman Island for some scuba diving with reef sharks on Santa Monica mount. Luckily Jen got a little video of the sharks for us to show you all, I’ll try to upload to Youtube soon. The water clarity is incredible as well.
After scuba, we stormed the Willy-T for some sundowners and predictably ran off all the families, children and respectable yachties. Thank God, who can drink and carouse with all those judgmental stares. There may or may not have been some skinny-dipping/diving from the third deck of the Willy-T floating restaurant and bar.
We are now off to Cooper and Virgin Gorda. I promised the crew some wreck diving, and they get rather mutinous when they don’t get their way. So I need to weigh anchor and move our current home to the dive buoy. Oh, life is terrible, just terrible. But no use complaining. 🙂