Marnie was working a yoga retreat there this past April 2014 and Sandy and I needed to join that fun group again. Two years ago we went with them to Tortola.
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| Yellow bird with a black and white head. Sandy and I saw many birds at the top of Gorda Peak. Especially tiny black and red hummingbirds. Does anyone know who it is? |
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| Interesting brown bird again at the top of Gorda Peak. Anyone? |
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| Yup! It is a barrel cactus. And you are not in New Mexico, Dorothy. Or is it Kansas? Do you actually know ANYONE from Kansas? |
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| Matouk's Calypso Sauce MON! |
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| A freighter. Check out that beautiful water. View from Hog Heaven Restaurant Bar. |
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| Water TAXI! This is the only way to get to Saba Rock. Say Say-bah Rock. |
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| Leverick Bay with a huge boat. To the extreme left center is Saba Rock with the orange roofs. It is a hotel and restaurant. It closes for the hurricanes of August. It is wide open to the Atlantic. Atlantic is an ocean. You said saba again. It is Say-bah! |
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| A solid bar of pure silver from a sunken Spanish galleon. I could barely lift it. |
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| Food beautiful food at .... |
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| Bamboo trees at the same place. |
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| Leaving Saba Rock, mate. It is owned by England -- that is why they fly that flag. Lovely Rita, meter maid . . . |
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| The Baths at Virgin Gorda. Sandy and I were there almost forty years ago and never dreamed we would be back. When you grow up in Adams Massachusetts, everything seems impossible. |
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| Huge boulders of granite are piled on top of one another at the south end of the eight square mile island. |
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| This is the postcard you see everywhere. Boats anchor off the Baths and people swim in. Especially sailboats. |
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| Sandy at the Baths. |
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| Sarah from Maine from the yoga group. |
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| Marnie saluting the sun. |
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| Ms. Sarah again. I can do that. |
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| Cool photo of Allison |
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| Michelle |
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| Tricia the group leader taking a photo. |
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| Tricia has a black belt and two kids and knows how to run a yoga retreat. Next year it will be Costa Rica. She also is an expert on Jimmy Buffet tunes. |
All these photos were taken by Alexandra Mae Zabek. She wouldn't lie to you. I met her when she was only fourteen, so I know her.
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| Baths |
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| Sarah y Marnie. Actually anyone can do that. |
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| Yah there's a beach. |
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| Final photo of The Baths. Maybe you could join us next year. This year it ran twice. A week each time. |
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| Ghost ship heading for Leverick Bay. |
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| creature |
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| beautiful flowers |
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| Very cool shot from the bar at Hog Heaven. She was serving Pain Killers. Made with Pusser's Rum and sand fleas and sweet stuff. They do dull the pain. Pusser's was the rum served to the sailors on wooden British ships. It was doled out by the ship's purser and that is why it is called ...... Marnie says that Mount Gay rum is the local favorite. |
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| To look at this photo one would think that these girls were having fun. |
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| Meat, anyone? |
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| NO they are not deer in our driveway. |
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| You would think we were in the Caribbean. Why two b's? |
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| Savannah Beach. White sand as in Isla Mujeres but much coarser. |
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| I was looked after there. |
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| How do you sell a chicken to a deaf man? HEY MISTER, DO YOU WANT TO BUY A CHICKEN? Chickens galore here. |
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| chicks |
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| Goodnight and thanks for tuning in. |
- Roberto Francisco Tocino
Free factoid . . . Jimmy wrote "Cheeseburger in Paradise" at Road Town in Tortola after a long sail with mostly only fish to eat.
1 comment:
Great photographs! They really give the feel of the place. Re: the hummingbirds, my Google investigation turned up two Virgin Islands hummers: the Green-throated Carib and the the Antillean Crested. There used to be an Antillean Mango hummingbird, but it was "extirpated" (= exterminated). Neither of the two look particularly red, but do look black. I can't attach photos here, so I will email them to you all.
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