Brian & Mel's Visit was toooooo short!!!

The week came and went so fast!!!  Brian & Melanie left us this morning - we hated to see it end - we had such a good time - even if we did have a little nasty weather in the middle!  We didn't get to take them everywhere we wanted to but they got a pretty good feel for the area and the hard life we are enduring. 

We were able to go to Guana Cay for a day and believe it or not they both (as well as us) got nipped (at Nipper's) and grabbed (at Grabber's).  We dinghied over to Shell Island so Brian and Jeff could snorkle and Melanie & I could look for shells.  Lots of shells to be had and Brian found numerous conchs, although we didn't keep any of them.  He found two Helmet Conchs that were not smelling very good but sure are beautiful!  We are dragging them behind the boat in a net bag to see if the small fish will eat the remains out of them so we can take them home.  Man O man do they smell bad!!!! 

Off to Hopetown, which they really liked.  They found sea glass on the beach along with numerous sea beans; climbed to the top of the lighthouse; got to see Rake & Scrape while we were there, although it was a mid-day show and very sedate, quite unlike the night time Rake & Scrape, which can get pretty wild and rowdy - but we had a good time anyway.  Went on down to Tahiti Beach for more snorkeling and sandbar walking, along with cleaning a coconut that was oh so good.  It is beautiful there, hence the name!

On to Man O War where the anchorage looks over a little piece of land that is nothing more than a golf cart path on top of the rocks, and then on the other side is the Atlantic Ocean.  Absolutely gorgeous to watch the waves crash in and over the rocks.

Over to Mermaid Reef yesterday morning for more snorkeling.  This is a small reef/coral area outside of Marsh Harbour and you wouldn't expect to really see anything there if you looked at the surroundings, but it is a very nice place to snorkel.  We saw lots and lots of different kinds of fish and some that we had not seen on the ocean side reefs, but we didn't have the barracudas to deal with. 

Back to Treasure Cay yesterday late afternoon, just in time to watch the parade of sport fishing boats coming in from the first day of the billfish tournament.  We'll post more on that after the tournament is over.
 
AND...............somewhere along the way Brian managed to catch a couple of fish, one was a BAF which we couldn't get up to the boat and the other wasn't near as big and we released it.

Lastly - Melanie tried to get off the boat this morning with Chloe in her backpack but got caught!!!!  We struggled but got her back ................ it was close!!

That about sums up our week!!  Any questions??