Eastward...

The girls fly out in a few hours from here in St. Thomas and as soon as we drop them off we will be off to St. John. That will be a staging point for us to wait for a little better weather for our trek to the East and our destination of St. Martin/Sint Marteen. This island is half owned by France, half by the Dutch, hence the two different spellings. It's supposed to be a great island and I'm looking forward to seeing it. It's around 100 miles total but we are ready to move on. I got quite a bit accomplished on the boat over the past two days and I should be able to finish most of the projects by the time we leave St. Martin to continue south along the path. After we leave here, I will in most likely lose cell service and internet availability is questionable at best. I will do my best to update with photos and stories but chances are I will have fewer opportunities resulting in me cramming several days worth of info into each update. We'll see. After I fixed both bilge pumps yesterday, Tish, Jo Ann and I took the dinghy over to Water Island and walked around a little. This island is at the entrance to Charlotte Amalie and there are some really cool old forts there. I got several up close pictures of the forts, their construction and even the spots that used to have the cannons, I will get those posted soon. Can't do it now because I'm sitting in the Barefoot Buddha (a pseudo Starbucks) eating a turkey wrap, drinking a Red Bull and using their internet terminals all for the low price of 9.50 U.S.