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Cruising the Caribbean (Pt 2)
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Next day it was fairly rough, but not enough for Mike. Unless he has experienced a Hurricane,
Tornado, Tsunami, all at once I don't think he will really be happy!!!
Arrived in St Thomas at 9.am, went on shore, looked round shops, then bartered with a taxi driver to take us to a good lookout area for photos. We went in an old battered van
that went veerrry slowww up the steep hill. The driver ...
Thursday again already?
... about their prac exam on Tuesday and you can tell because they're bombarding me with questions. Before I've barely got the answer out for one person another has started with theirs. I ended up perfecting a delicate dance around the dissection tables, flitting from one person to the next; scapels and forceps flying.
Its all a bit hard to give them the help they need and the explanations they each deserve when it ...
Twice Around the Island – The Big Race
... to get on our final approach to the line in the best position.
Now it was all about boat speed – not too fast and not too slow. We played the sheets to try to match boat speed to the distance from the committee boat while converging on the rhumb line to prevent either tri from luffing us up. The tris were now more behind us and probably in our messy air, losing their speed and pointing ability. We were far enough to windward of them ...
And then the chase was on!
... turned from black to white........ terror suddenly in his face. As far as he was the whirling dervish, had arrived; the army of Genghis Khan and the look ...
Hurricane Season in the Caribbean!!!!!
... to go I guess. Lots of loud banging across at the casino, and the tearing of sheet metal off the roofs of the derelict houses beside us, as the winds continue to pick up in intensity.
Hurricane Louis in 1995 was a category 5 hurricane, and it wiped the entire resort off the point at Mullet Bay – I can see why. It wouldn’t have stood a chance against the sea.
Updates…
8:49am : Wow – those wind ...


