Taking in all we can the last few days..

Last day on Anegada we spent the whole day at ABC (Anegada beach Club)with the children a good 5 hr continous poolswim, ginger beer on the rocks, carib with lime,ABCs famous BLLT(bacon lobster lettuce tomato) sandwich. ( this being after the morning SUP in the mangroves).

Leaving The beautiful Island of Anegada behind..
Anegada Bech Club pool

We managed to go by the food store Lil bits to stock up on what we needed just in time before they closed up and then headed over to the boat to Get all dressed up for our Anegada-good lobster dinner at The Wonky Dog. We ordered way more than we could eat but still we needed key lime pie and sticky toffee pudding for dessert, the whole evening was topped off with our own private beach disco with a DJ! The Double Trouble crew danced the evening away until the bitter end! The 8 of us stumbled into bed tummies full of lobster and feet knackered from dancing in the coral beach sand, humming the tune of YMCA.

YMCAAAA…
Football morning mid-day and evening with the 3 fotballers!

Early leaving from Anegada after bananabread and blueberry muffin delivery from Barry the mooring-guy, and the Bay turtle came up close to the boat as though to greet us «farewell and safe travels»!

Barrys bluberrymuffins&bananadelivery boatside

On the next leg we were headed to Diamond Cay located between little Jost van Dyke and Jost van dyke, a 4-5 hr sail. Most of our crew experienced a little seasickness, all happy as we finally reached Diamond Cay and hooked up to a mooring. Sailing into the bay you pass Green bay and the Sandy Spit on Starboard side, a tiny all-sand Island with a couple of palms, and you need to swim ashore to Get there. We knew we were running low on dinghy fuel, but turned out it was critically low, so 3 of us went for a hike the Road over the hills to the next bay- Little harbour- up and down immensely steep roads(where the cars were actually going backwards up the hills in order to Get up at all!), just to find that the fuelstation there was no longer in use….

Steep roads of Jost van Dyke
The red Line marks Eriks run…

With the caribbean sun burning away Erik ran to the next bay, another 6-7 km up similarly steep hills, and luckily the fuel- lady in Great harbour got him a taxi for the return to the private Dock where Mille and I were anxiously waiting.

Irmas destructions…view down to little harbour
View down to Diamond Bay

With the dinghy all fuelled up we went into shore, to Foxys Taboo And took the hike over to the Bubbly pool, a cool and cooling experience for all of us.

The evening meal was taken in at Foxys taboo, and during the night the Floodgates opened so all the above head hatches in the cabins had to be sealed really quickly! Luckily we’ve learned the drill by now!(yes we have all slept in drenched bedding a couple of nights due to slow reactions on closing overhead hatches…).

Mrs & Mrs Sunhats

Awakening to a new sunrise with clear skies, bookreading and coffee in a hammock on deck before a short boatride to Great harbor for fuelling at eriks newfound gasstation lady, waterfilling and grocery shopping at Rubys marketplace, here we could se Irmas damages up close with the villages church roof completely gone and window covers hanging crookedly. Christines bakery was expected to be a real treat, except they only accepted cash which we were low on so no fresh baked goods for us- not this time…At the main Foxys we hung our Norwegian flag with the boats name and all our names written on it- should any of our friends come by there some time, they can actually pick it up and bring it back for us, otherwise it’ll stay there till the end of time!

Gas station at Great Harbour
Local grocery store
The damaged Church without a roof
Outside Foxy’s
Our boatflag hung at Foxy’s
The slightly larger grocerystore in Great Harbour
Man size Tarpins under the dock
Great harbour

A small peak into our home for the past fortnite:

«Double Trouble» of seabattical
The breakfast-, evening- and yatzy-quarters
Kitchen and «livingroom»in panoramic view
View from the back to the front bedroom Starboard side- the shower and toilet lodged to the right between these two cabins- similar layout on Port side
Bathroom to the right
Starboard Toilet(yes you have to be Houdini to Get into the «room» to use this and rumour has it that loud swearing has been known to be heard up on deck when the pump isnt really cooperating after bathroom visits….!)
Hammock on the front deck
Our outside «spa» on the portside back of the boat(where the ladder is located for getting quickly back into the boat if needed)
The front «hammock»net- perfect to Get a little butt-rinse when wavy!
Wheel&ropes-captains quarters!
Plane/Bird view of Double Trouble when leaving tortola/Beef Island in Bellamy Cay, isnt she lovely&majestic where she lays!

5 thoughts on “Taking in all we can the last few days..

    1. Hope you are doing well both of you! We finally got to do a small part of the sailing we were originally going to do (was supposed to be 2 months but ended up with 2 weeks 2 years lter!). But nevertheless amazing! Hope to see you sometime soon! We want to come over to the us sometime soon, so we’ll give you a shout if and when! Please tell us if you’re coming to Norway anytime! Hugs from Christine & the crew!

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