Nevis

We are here in Nevis and doing just fine, having a day without traveling. There is a story about the fishing lures we put out every day we travel. There is a green huge one and and a pink “girlie” one. We've had two bites on the girlie one and lost both fish. On our way from Montserrat to Nevis I suggested we spray WD40 on the girlie one. Now you are probably thinking has Shannon gone crazy. Well, Traci and I read someone else blog where they were never catching anything and they were told to put WD40 on the lure …. and sure enough they caught something. What do we have to lose, so I insisted we go ahead and spray the pink girlie lure.... What do you think happened? Yes, we caught a barracuda. That's right our very first fish. Now, Paul, Dave and James says it had nothing to do with the WD40 we sprayed on it. I'll let you all out there be the judge, but I will spray another time to see what happens. And you know I will keep you posted.

We are anchored with a few other boats right across from the Four Seasons Hotel (which is under renovations) The hotel has a reef so off we go to the reef to snorkel. It was pretty good, saw lots of cool fish and Traci and Dave saw a sea turtle. James collected some sand dollars and other shells. The big dock here in town is not that sturdy so we are not going there for water. We need to top up our water as our tanks are low now. We always have emergency water stored elsewhere. We are heading to Basseterre, St. Kitt's in the morning so we are hoping the dock there is good for us to get water. There are cruise ships there all the time, so a much bigger port. It is only about 10miles away. (2hrs traveling time)

I did laundry today, yes, we do wear clothes once in a while. … the towels were bad. I use fresh water from our emergency area and did clothes too. They dry in between all the rain showers which last about 6 minutes. James has brought the rain with him, it never rained so much since James arrived.

We will fry up the Barracuda tonight for dinner, I'll let you all know how it tastes... we always have Jiff peanut butter as emergency food hahahah!

We have heard all about the weather in Ontario. Maybe school was canceled. I know James wishes he was snowboarding right now, but we made him come! James is learning how to sail and use all the instruments. Dave and Paul have him doing all kinds of rope handling, including putting up the main sail. He told me no pics of him yet, until he is tanned.