Happy Friday

It is that time of the week again for Happy Friday! I am running out of things to write about on here, any suggestions would be appreciated?

We have been really busy with out of town guests.

We had Al and Tina from California stop by for a day on the Carnival Glory. We met Al and Tina almost ten years ago when we were all on a cruise through the Panama Canal and have kept in touch with them all these years. We took them to Magens Bay to the beach for the day with some Pizza at Island Time Pub in Red Hook.

Then it was off fishing and caught some Wahoo.

Then taking a friend from High School and her family and friends to Jost as they were here staying on St John.

And finally taking a group of friends over to Cane Garden Bay on Tortola and then Soggy Dollar.

And of course, we had another visitor come by, this tarantula.

Now we have guests in from where we used to live in Driggs, ID here for a few days, so it will have to be Jost tomorrow, fishing Saturday and watching the Jets beat Buffalo on Sunday.


Have a great weekend!

Happy Friday!

Happy Friday everyone!

After an unsettled start to the week, the Summer heat and steam has finally broke! And it was one hell of a hot Summer this year. It feels like winter here again with temps in the mid -80s and lows in the mid 70's. The humid haze is also gone!

We had a good day fishing on the South Drop yesterday, bringing in 3 wahoo, one being 40 lbs.

It was nice to get some blood on the boat!

Today I am heading over to St John to pick up an old High School friend and her family for a day over at Jost. Sunday I am taking some friends out for a birthday cruise on Sunday!

Happy Friday and have a great weekend!

Happy Friday!

Yes, I know it is Saturday, I forgot to post a Happy Friday!

With that being said, I think Halloween festivities here have finally come to end? There were parties last weekend, Thursday night (which is actually Halloween) and some last night.

We stuck to tradition and celebrated on Halloween! The dogs had fun!

We snuck out to Shenanigans Sports Bar to watch some football and have some fun! That is until the termites had a hatched and swarmed the bar! I ended winning the Halloween Contest, $50! 

I finally got the name on the new boat! 

Other than that, the Summer weather here has finally broke! It has been much cooler, with the trade winds back, only thing is it has been raining now for the last 3 days! But what a relief, I never thought that heat and humidity was going to end! 

I leave you with this week's picture, from Point Pleasant Resort! Have a great weekend! 

Happy Friday!

It is Friday again! Here is this week's edition of Happy Friday!

I don't think we will be doing any boating this weekend as our Black Lab, Chukar went in for his LAST heartworm shot today and is coming home tomorrow at noon, and we have to keep him calm and quiet! Blake our yellow lab just successfully completed his treatment, now poor Chukar. When we adopted both of these boys from a rescue group in North Carolina, Blake had tested positive for heartworm while Chukar didn't, that is it can take up to 6 months for the worms to show their presence, and they did. So yes, we are good dog owners and they don't have heartworm from while under our control. Let's not forgot to the VI dog owners, please have your pups on heartworm preventative!

Sunday we may sneak out to our new favorite place to watch football! Shenanigans at Megan's Point Resort. Have a little brunch next door at Simply Italian, which has the best $12 bottomless bloody marys and then to watch some football? Shenanigans has $2.50 Coors Lights and they are ice cold, flat screen TV's scratchcards when you buy a Coors Light, good bar food and fun people and staff! This place reminds me of The Caribbean Saloon and what it used to be 2 years ago.  https://www.facebook.com/shenaniganssportsbar

As I watch the news down here and look on Facebook, I see many of you are having signs of Winter with some having snow and lots of complaining about the cold? Do me a favor, send some of that down our way? We have had such a hot Summer and it is still not over yet with each day hitting 90 and when I go to bed 82 with no trade wind breezes. So yes, you may be cold, but I am still sweating! If it gets too cold, come on down for a visit?

Have a good weekend, Go JETS and I leave you with a picture of Megans Bay from Drake's seat taken today!

Happy Friday!

Went out fishing today in the afternoon on the new boat as I heard the wahoo bite was on!

No wahoo, had a blue marlin on, too bad it broke the line and took a $80 lure?

This weekend, Cane Garden Bay, BVI and fishing on Sunday as I doubt the Jets have a chance against New England?

Have a great weekend wherever you are and to those stateside, Fall is here I guess, stay warm!

Happy Friday!

It is that time of the week again for Happy Friday!

Good news! The National Park read the deeds that Rockefeller had drawn up when he donated all the lands to the National Park Service and my guess they contained that the Park could not restrict access to the beaches, so guess what?  As of last Sunday the beaches on St John are open again!

These photos are from a few weeks ago from a friend, Jeff Howard. They are Cruz Bay's Hollywood on St John. Kenny Chesney gave him a signed guitar! How nice and awesome that was of him to do that! Pure Life on a Rock?

We have a long weekend here and will probably head over to Jost on Monday for the holiday! Go Jets, beat those Steelers! Have a great weekend! 

Happy Friday!

It's that time of the week again for Happy Friday!

I am happy today as we have a new addition to our family, The Louly III! She is named after our late dog Bristol Leenie Louly who used to love riding on our boats! We just happened to sell our boat the Louly II last week.  I was calling around in Florida for a replacement boat this week and a dealer told me about this boat and it was the boat I always dreamed of that was two slips over from us! The former owner is buying a new one same model and all from that dealer! This was Bristol in the works helping us out with our fate!

We are so psyched!

Too bad we can't use the mooring balls over on St John as the National Park is closed and that includes mooring balls! Speaking of which, there is a sit in on Sunday at Maho Bay at 1PM.

https://www.facebook.com/events/168170623386786/

I was a celebrity briefly this week as well. As you know we were recently skiing in Chile:

And I leave you with a taste of "You Can't Make This Shit Up" This was taken last night, OCTOBER 3rd.

Maybe they won't open at all ?

Happy Friday!

It is time for this week's Happy Friday!

Smith Bay had a mini carnival on Labor Day. They put the colored flags out with light bulbs. Here it is almost and October and I thought I would give a status update of the flags/bulbs:

Might as well through out the flags now as they are pretty shredded! Soon come down?

Anyone want two dressers? We moved these down from Reno, Nevada, where the average humidity was 25%. How are they holding up here? They have expanded so bad that you can't get the drawers open! I shaved the wood down several months ago to come back to the same conclusion, these are just like large dehumidifiers, the drawers have locked up once again! I think I am going to re home them at the dumpster. If you are thinking of moving down here, my advice would be to save the money and buy new stuff down here! Good news though, there is always someone moving and selling their furniture that is island adjusted, so the new re-homed ones come this weekend!

Yes it is not even October yet and we still have Halloween and Thanksgiving coming, but it is Christmas season in the Virgin Islands! 

Yes, at Home Depot we already have the Christmas section up! Ho Ho Ho!!!!

We are boatless this weekend, yes sold our boat the Louly 2. It was nice using you girl and thanks for the memories! I know we will see her around as she is going to be part of a charter boat fleet! I don't know what I am going to do with myself?  It has been almost a year and a half now owning a boat here and we rarely ever skipped a weekend day on our boat. Good thing we have football! Speaking of which Colorado beat Oregon State and Jets beat Tennessee!

I also found a nice home for one of my tenant clients! Congrats on your new place Angela and Brian! Don't forgot I am here for all of your St Thomas real estate needs! Our logo is on the right, just click on there! 

Have a wonderful weekend and for those of you north of Latitude 18, enjoy a nice Fall Weekend! I leave you with this weeks photos!

 Happy Friday! 

Happy Friday!

Wow! Here it is already Friday?

Here is another installment of "You Can't Make This Shit Up" to make you laugh!

As I mentioned last week we had the grand opening of Walgreens. Here is how it went! 

Shoppers Flood Walgreens Opening

Crowds swarmed to the new Walgreens Saturday morning, waiting impatiently through the speeches and check presentations before streaming into the new, long-awaited store.

Wait, we have rocks here?

VIPA: Crown Bay Dredging Schedule Hinges on Hidden Rocks

The V.I. Port Authority governing board discussed the timetable for the Crown Bay dredging project on St. Thomas, among other business, at its monthly meeting on St. Croix on Wednesday.

An Audit here found violations? This must be a first?

Audit Finds Violations in Agriculture Programs

The Agriculture Department’s negligence in administering its land leasing and land clearing programs violated the law and led to abuses of public property and services, according to an audit released Thursday.

I saw this one on On-St John today! 

Here is Mic from Soggy Dollar Bar and some of his new toys as he was celebrating the next month off! 

And of course, White Bay on Jost Van Dyke. What beach will you be on this weekend?

Happy Friday! Have a great weekend and hope your team wins! Maybe my Jets can pull out a win with their new wide receiver?