A quick trip in Puff and on the move again.
14 April 2017 | Key Bay, BVI
Bill/sunny and hot
Yesterday, Thursday, we went on an adventure in Puff. With our 18 hp outboard, we can zip around quite well. We wanted to head back to Whelk Bay and look for more sand dollars. We found a bunch several weeks ago but made the mistake of leaving them out in the cockpit to dry. Snowshoe, with his big feet, managed to step on all of them breaking them into little pieces. We wanted to go back and see if we could find more. It seems to be a sand dollar grave yard. We didn't want to take Zephyr as the anchoring isn't the best and it can get quite rollie and we were happy where we're anchored in Benure Bay. We had an easy trip over as there was just about no wind and no wind normally makes for calm sea and that's just what we had. We made sure to drop our anchor in a sandy patch, put on our fins and masks and jumped in. It took a while but we came back with a dozen of them. Now we have to find a place to store them so they don't get broken again.
We climbed back in Puff and took off for Key Bay (right across from Benure Bay)to see what it was like and was it worth it to visit. Again, an easy trip with just a bit of wind coming up. Nice place with just one boat in it. Maybe we will visit. We covered the 5.2 miles of the trip quickly.
We'd been notified that one of the packages we'd been waiting for was shipped via Fed Ex even though we'd specified it to go to the US Post Office here in St. Thomas. We made plans to leave this morning and head for St. John so we could take another ferry and pick it up along with two other boxes that were waiting for us. Since the FedEx package was in, we only had till the 19th to get it. In the end, I found a card from a place we'd visited when we first arrived back in January that accepts FedEx packages(cost of $10 per box), and called Fed Ex and had the delivery address changed. Glad we didn't go as we found out that FedEx was closed on Friday since it's"Good Friday". We'd have made the trip for nothing.
Since we needed to empty our black water tanks, we decided to pull up the anchor and move over to Key Bay and see what it was like. We motored out into the main channel where the current was flowing nicely and push the button to empty the tanks. We then motored over to Key Bay getting there just in time for one of the three boats there was leaving. The bay is quite small and has limited anchor spots where sand is available. Once we got our anchor down, about an hour later the two other boats that were in here pulled up their anchors and took off. With in 45 minutes we got our first boat coming into the anchorage and ended up with six of us crowded in here. One has since left. We snorkeled part of the shoreline and found nothing of interest yet a mile away (Benure)is some of the best coral we've seen in a long time. Go figure. We'll look at the rest of the reefs tomorrow and may go back to Benure where there is more to see and do. Right now, the plan is to take the ferry back to St. Thomas on Monday. We'll see how that goes.