Off to the US of A
06 March 2015 | Cruz Bay, Island of St John USVI
Time to move on and just as we were thinking to go and clear out, we were asked to move for a barge. Knew we should have done the checkout business yesterday, 'cos now we have to either re anchor or pick up a mooring just to attend to it. Big problem as when we tried to get the anchor up we were bringing someone's mooring chains as well. A bit of fiddling and got it off but now to find a mooring. They are like in the car parks at the shopping centres at home....more boats than there are moorings, so we chose to pick up a private one just for the 15 minutes to get our clearance, the it was off to St John Island, just an hour and a half sail. Anchored and got ourselves admitted into the US Virgin Islands. Found where to buy a SIM card for the iPad and went back to the boat for lunch. Oh no!! The SIM card is not working, so back in the dinghy and return to the shopping centre. All fixed we decided to check out the Mongoose Centre, an upmarket shopping precinct designed around terraces. Of course the daily rain cloud burst here so we were a bit damp when we left....a frozen yoghurt the a late return to the boat. Because it was late we decided to stay where we were for the night but that was not to be as we were soon told it wasn't an overnight anchorage, so we had to get the anchor up and find somewhere else in the dark. No worries, just around the corner, anchor down, a couple of drinks then dinner.