Back at home

Friday 3-3-06 We awoke early to get on the road to find a geocache. This was to be the last one before departure tomorrow afternoon. The cache is located on Dorthy’s Bay near the Condos at the bottom of a very long and steep decent – if it starts to rain and you are at the bottom without 4×4 your chance of getting back to the top are nill. Anyway we got to the condos and located the road that leads to a trail into the hills. There is nothing an no one on the trail. There were quite a few forks in the trail and I dutifully marked an arrow in the earth showing the direction. About half way a rustling and thrashing of brush and debris took place and SAM screamed to high heaven – it was a mongoose or a very large rat. Anyway we got to the fire ring and then stepped off the 33 paces in the right direction. After a 5 minute search we found the blue container. It was real wet inside so we stayed around for 30 minutes or so and had a photo shoot. We left some goodies and took a corporal patch and triple bagged it so the contents would stay dry. teh rest was noneventful return to the car.

SAM wanted to shop so we parked in town at a 1 hour parking spot so the time to shop would be limited to my patience level. We bought myself a very nice T-Shirt. Thanks SAM. After that it was near lunch so we stopped at McDonalds in Frenchtown and ate near the Marina.

From there it was on to the beach so SAM could get cooked. The snorkeling is pretty good there and SAM swam the reefs for about a mile. Yours truly then got a turn and I did about the same distance, maybe a little farther, and returned only because of the fear of a sunburned backside – and this I did get.

Dinner was a $31 “Special” Caribbean Buffet. It was good, probably the best we have had this week, but it was reasonably bland and suited for the mainland customers. Me I like a little more spice.
We arrived back at the pad last night about 2230 hrs. It was a fun trip and enjoyed by all. I got out twice snorkeling for about 2 hrs total. SAM was out once for about an hour totally alone and saw a big fish that required a hasty exit from the area. The VM’s did 5 caches and one required a trek through a jungle. On that one there was no person or thing for a long ways but the trail was pretty well defined so it was not too bad.

Sunday 3-5-06 Food on the island is about twice what it is at home territory resturants. Gasoline was $2.93/ gallon. With respect to the rest of the USA it is pretty third world but very similar to urban areas in Latin America. Locals were not overly friendly but were courteous except when driving and then the “island time” became “NY City time”. I’ll add some more to this blog tomorrow.