Tortola..Oct 31..Happy Halloween

arrived in Tortola, BVI this early beautiful morning..walked around Roadtown...  86*.. sunny and HEAT

day at sea ....Oct 30

a short detour at 5am this early morning for a med-evac passenger at Grand Turk island ... we were underway pretty quickly.. a beautiful sunny 82* day at sea..around noon some inconsiderate passenger decides to mount his HAM radio antenna right in front of me at the railing.. what a buffoon!!!!

day at sea...Oct 29

enroute to Tortola ... this is the retirement cruise for the W-T Hat a/k/a thee Well-Traveled Hat... at the end it will be taken out of service and replaced by the NEW W-T Hat...

Maasdam cruise roundtrip from Ft Lauderdale to Europe day one.. at sea Oct 28 2011

..start of our 45 day cruise  roundtrip from Ft lauderdale to  Europe..  we started our adventure with our friends Denise and Tom in our drive down to Ft Lauderdale in our packed to the brim rental van... we boarded our favorite Holland America ship, the Maasdam... met old friends onboard including Capt Henk Draper and his lovely wife Cassie... Juul and Jan Gehrman... and many members of the ships staff from previous cruises ...a perfect sailaway thru Port Everglades Inlet... set our course southeast bound toward our first port of call Tortola after 2 days at sea...we should arrive there early Monday morning

another pretty morning

headed down to Sunset Beach surf to wet a line.....passed by this group of munchers on the way to the beach at North Shore Drive.. their usual hangout....

.. didn't have any cut bait so used some old Gulp grubs I had along with Shrimp fish-bites... the Gulp got hit a few times.. no hookups though...  another pretty morning.. walkers were few... 

left there and headed on over to the ICW.. saw a couple of friends.. Becky and Betty.. fishing Becky's new pretty boat.. a very nice rig... another early season 'snowbird' makes its way down the Intracoastal  to warmer weather ...no bites for me...

getting out and about in the early morning

another 'kewl' 47* early morning at sunrise in the Sunset Beach surf in s/e NC today.. headed down to the surf .. not much doing...  pretty sunrise though.. a couple of net boats .. and a shrimper a bit further out... left the surf and headed to the ICW ..caught a couple of lizardfish on a gold spoon.. catch and release of course like I always do..