Just to give you all an idea of our plan, we intend to have Dennis join us tomorrow and we will continue to quarantine on the good ship Yantina until next week before leaving. We are trying to be sure none of us has contracted the virus during our travels to the Virgin Islands. The general feeling is, having someone come down with sickness during the passage should be avoided at costs! Our plans are all weather dependent, of course.
Given the above issue we are considered in quarantine here in St. Croix. Which is obviously a blessing (but it may not be a blessing for everyone as witness by the outburst this morning from one of the other boat in harbor, “Woman, stay the **** away from me”. Needless to say we are keeping our social distance from that boat.)
Today we are settling into a routine of life on the boat. This morning after breakfast. We embarked on our outing for the day, grocery shopping in Christiansted. I was impressed with the offering at store, they were a full service grocery with prices obviously higher than Aldi but palatable. The town of Christianstad was basically following social distancing, but everyone was still pleasant and found everything we needed. The town itself had a very tropical laid back feel to it. I especially like the practice of driving American left hand drive cars on the left side of the road. When I asked I local about, I was told “because that is what we do”. Sometimes the simple explanations are best. I apologize for no photos of town I did not take my phone on the ‘rib’ the English name for dinghy.
After a lunch of egg salad on freshly baked bread it was time for the afternoon activity, snorkeling. There is a wreck just behind our anchorage that proved to very interesting! It is an old sunken metal hull from the 40’s which the sea life has basically reclaimed. All the fish were really very interesting to see. It was a totally a new experience for me. Snorkeling around the harbor will have to become may form of exercise.
Now that we have gotten the groceries and explored the local wreck, it’s tea time. I am after all on a UK flagged boat!