Thanks Ken:

I checked out a couple Spanish Virgin Island web sites and it certainly
looks nice. Less crowed and pristine anchorages is certainly a big draw.

I will stay away from the King Mackeral for sure!!

Keegan
San Diego

>I have done some cruising in a few of the areas you are considering. While
>the BVI are nice and very easy, we joked that they are "good your first
>time". We were hassled by customs in Virgin Gorda and left with a bad
>taste in our mouths. We did enjoy St John (USVI) since it is primarily
>park lands. Some nice small towns, too.
>
> Vieques was one of my favorite places in the Caribbean. Ironically, we
> all got sick with ciguatera there so don't eat large king mackerels there.
> Over two years later we still have some side affects. Vieques has some
> nice out of the way anchorages and some others close to the small towns
> for provisioning. Culebra to the north has some fabulous spots, too.
> Your charter company may restrict you from going to the Spanish Virgins
> (Culebra and Vieques) as well as Anegada.
>
> I stayed for 2 1/2 months in Grenada so I have a warm spot for them. It
> is a great island but the anchorages are not as pristine as you can find
> elsewhere. They are still nice though. Carriacou and Petite St
> Vincent/Martinique area just outside the Tobago Cays is very nice with
> limited provisioning. Of course, the Tobago Cays are great but hit pretty
> hard like the Virgins. They did remind us of the Bahamas though.
>
> The Bahamas have the most fabulous waters. The people can be a little
> cold to us since we are the ugly Americans but usually we stayed near the
> back country where the locals are very nice. It is the best place to "get
> away" that we could find in the cruise from Florida to Trinidad. There is
> so much to explore it is amazing. Interesting to note though, when we
> left the Bahamas and got through the Turks and Caicos, we went on to the
> Dominican Republic and were dazed by the trees and mountains that we had
> missed while being in the Bahamas and T/C for the previous 3 months. But
> we are from Montana where we love the trees and mountains. The Bahamas
> still have their own great geology and "wildlife".
>
> The cats are great party boats. We spent 19 days with another cruising
> family on their Catana 47. It was supposed to be a 8 day trip to Trinidad
> and Tobago while we left our Baba 30 in the mangroves on the south end of
> Grenada. The weather was stable and we were all (eight of us) having fun
> in T and T so we stretched it to 19 days. The family of four is now
> living on the Catana at a marina in Venezuela. We don't expect them to
> return to the US.
>
> The next hurricane season we were home in the US and Ivan hit Greneda with
> Category 5 storms for a few hours. 75,000 of 90,000 people were homeless
> for a while. It is much better now and friends say it is the same old
> Grenada to them.
>
>>
> Ken
> Moonshadow II
> Whitefish, MT

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