Swiping Pictures For the New Year

originally posted on the St. Croix Lime

Waiting For Lisa

Tug

Probably Illegal In the States

Magnificent Urchin Again

Lisa's Christmas Turtle

and a beautiful end to a great Christmas!

Merry Christmas!

I'll Miss The Bees

Christmas eve started with Rascal waking us up to warn us about the spaceman in the yard.

Mr. Chichester has come to crate the beehive and eventually take them away to be put to work making honey to help the non-locals with their allergies.

This is their temporary spot 'til they settle in to the new digs.

You may wonder if its wise to stand so close and take pictures of a man pulling apart a beehive.

No.

It isn't.

Late To The Party

The Christmas Soursop

Dog Is My Co-pilot

St. Croix's First Yarnbomb?

Fresh Bananas

A Song for Ellen Nettles

Vital Accessories

thrift store skis, stainless steel hardware, and (leftover)paint = $7.50

Eye Candy

Meteor Shower Aftermath

Tried To Shoot A Meteor Shower

but all I got is an upside-down bull.

Branding

Eureka!

I don't have to get back in!

Big Prop

Boat Parade!

It started with a flyover by the Seaplanes.

It seemed like the whole island was packed onto the boardwalk.

Then the boats came by- most blaring christmas music and horns, some with bands playing on their decks, all of them decked out with all the lights they could manage to get onboard.

After that, fireworks!

Then the party started.

Here are a couple of dueling bands getting a little too close.

And... video.

The Bottom of Salt River

Couldn't see past my elbows.

The string is so I didn't get lost.

The worst is that I have to go back.

Sid's Amazing Weather Forecasting Conch Shell

I Never Get Tired Of Seeing These Two In Port

Backyard Rainbow

Rumble

She Floats!

So far.

St Thomas On The Horizon

a clear night + a black out on St Croix =

What's That Behind Those Bushes?

Oh, right...bees.

Guess I need to learn to harvest honey and beeswax!

F.A.D.

Way out in the middle of the ocean St Croix's Fish & Wildlife Dept. maintains Fish Attracting Devices to give fishermen a place to fish other than the reefs. Basically they're just a big mooring buoys with a chain that goes down 2 or 3 thousand feet. They give small pelagic fish a reference point to swim around and small fish attract big fish which attract bigger fish which ultimately leads to mahi-mahi and tuna on my plate.

Today it was my job to jump into the thousands of feet deep water and install new sacrificial zincs onto one of the chains so that it doesn't corrode (only down to about 110ft).

The work itself only took about a half hour, but the 19 mile trip out and back took about 4 hours overall. Good thing it was a nice day for a boat ride.

I managed to drop only one allen wrench.

Orion's Vacation

Lisa's Fake Job

Director of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory

These People Killed 88 Lionfish This Morning

Zephyr Is Back

from Venezuela

Holiday Jump Up

Turkey And Coconut Drinks

Turned into 6 turkeys and a 9 hour feast with a revolving cast of characters

at a closed restaurant.

Paw Pile