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Here is where we would live for the next week.
Ted was quite taken with the construction detail of this staircase that leads to the cabin for the resort manager of Drakes Anchorage on Mosquito island.
Proud island manager and guard.
Ted takes a careful look at the systems that are turned on for creature comfort and support.
It is terribly important that the sails be trimmed correctly.
The ruin of a house built by the Chubb family is fronted by this 'castle'. About the size of two bathrooms.
The boats in Little Harbor. Spree's mast is at the far back, next to the black power cruiser Katina.
Ted, Mike and Justy hike up to the abandoned house on Peter Island. This house was built by the Chubb family who owned much of the land around the bay.
The plants have taken over blocking most of the house from view.
Once upon a time this was quite the place.
The details of this hand painted tile picture were great.
Inside another great tile picture.
The purpose of this huge main room escaped us.
Here we look out from the Neptune tile picture and see how much the plants have grown up to surround the house.
Here we look out from the Neptune tile picture and see how much the plants have grown up to surround the house.
At one time the view as magnificant.
Back hall.
Decorations on the out buildings too.
We wondered where all the brick came from. Lots of buildings had substantial portions in this red brick rather than native coral and stone.
Fairly modern plumbing lead down from the rain collector to the cistern.
This rain collector was far enough up hill to feed a cistern that gravity fed water to the main house.
Looking underneath we wondered if the system first was used without the metal top.
There were a lot of outbuildings.
One contained htis potting area.
Guest rooms in the out buildings had partially collapsed ceilings with big windows and doors.
Justy felt right at home in these out buildings.
The kitchen was huge, it must have been intended to support big family gatherings.
The house was supported by this generator, which Ted thought could actually be made to work pretty easily.
Plants grew from the walls and we wondered if this was by intent or just what happened over the years. Probably a bit of both.
This gives a better idea of the view.
There were several of these huge prickly cactus like trees.
Every day we swam to clean up.
Then came aboard.
and showered off at the stern of the boat.
What should we do today?
The true master of the vessel.
A the end of the trip there was a bit of cleanup preparing Spree for it's trip home as 'cargo' on a dockwise carrier.
This modern dock was in a harbor that had a surprisingly shallow channel. In fact it was so silted up that Spree actually ran aground.
Justy gets ready to board his transportation home.
The new terminal at Beef Island.
Airplanes are noisy places. We wear headphones to protect our ears.
The flight is long. Headwinds give us almost 10 hours in the plane.
With only an occasional peek to see what is going on.
Some cope better than others.
Mosquito Island was just purchased by Richard Branson from Ed and Joyce Fredkin. Ted Wasserman salvaged this vessel and prepared it for the arrival of the new owner.
Dingy Captain Mike.
Here at the Fat Virgin Cafe we had our only shore side meal on the trip.
The Bitter End resort on Virgin Gorda.
Here is where we would live for the next week. Pretty nice living space.
The competition. These folks were great to us. Ted chased away a much larger yacht that was trying to tie in between our two vessels. They were planning a similar shore tie to this boat, but, were much too close to us, leaving no margin for error or drift.
At the end of the trip the engine had to be stored below decks. First it gets hoisted up.
Then the engine gets dropped down into a storage compartment.
Luggage and laundry ready to go ashore.
Transportation home awaits the intrepid flying dog.
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