Passage Photos and Westin Day

Well here are the long awaited passage photos from Marathon! Today we decided to take a quick day trip, leaving Red Hook around 7 am to get to Dog Island before the winds got strong. Dog Island has a nice area to snorkel without any people usually, and today was no exception. I swam around and got some great video, which of course will be uploaded later :).

Then we made the quick trip over to the Westin resort on St. John in Great Cruz bay. After coming here for ten or so years when I was younger, it was really really awesome walking down memory lane. Most of it has not changed, but they have added a new restaurant and painted some of the units that were becoming a little aged. If there was a goal for this trip, it was to see my boat anchored off the beach here, so mission accomplished! Enjoy the rest of the pictures.

Sunset over the Atlantic, cruising easily under the big genoa.

Wind starting to pick up from the NE, but still manageable. Again this trip we saw winds in the 25 knot range, but not approaching the 30 knots we saw in the Gulf. I'm not sure if it was because we had already gone through one good beating, but the waves didn't seem as bad. It could also be because of the Atlantic not having the washing machine affect like the Gulf.

Faithful crewmember Ed takes a selfie at sea. You can see the poor bimini has about had it... I'm going to have to sew it up the best I can over winter break.

Drinking some tea to get ready for my midnight watch. It's amazing how cold it is at night going to windward, even when it's only mid-70s at night. Can't imagine how it will be as we get closer to California...

Sirocco off the beach at the Westin in Cruz Bay! Mission accomplished!

These big iguanas are all over the Westin resort. The bigger they are, the less scared of people they become. This one dared me to come closer; I didn't.

They even are in the trees! At first it seems like there's a squirrel running around, but then you realize it's a huge iguana!