USVI Bart's trip photos
 

Here are a few pictures. It was a new camera and I
accidentally took a few movies instead of pictures.
I was trying to zoom in all these cases thinking I was
taking still photos. I have no way to upload these
videos.

I have two short videos of whales that actually show
more than a still photo would. I also have a few
short videos of Mirabella and Mirabella V.

Email me if you want me to send them to you. It may
take as while as I'm travelling for the next few weeks.

http://community.webshots.com/user/islandman112

Bart

Nice shots Bart..... Man that is one friggin' big sailboat. How did you
meet the "poacher"??

CM

"Bart Senior" wrote in message
...
Here are a few pictures. It was a new camera and I
accidentally took a few movies instead of pictures.
I was trying to zoom in all these cases thinking I was
taking still photos. I have no way to upload these
videos.

I have two short videos of whales that actually show
more than a still photo would. I also have a few
short videos of Mirabella and Mirabella V.

Email me if you want me to send them to you. It may
take as while as I'm travelling for the next few weeks.

http://community.webshots.com/user/islandman112

Bart

Cool...didn't you just hate coming back to the cold?

"Bart Senior" wrote in message
...
Here are a few pictures. It was a new camera and I
accidentally took a few movies instead of pictures.
I was trying to zoom in all these cases thinking I was
taking still photos. I have no way to upload these
videos.

I have two short videos of whales that actually show
more than a still photo would. I also have a few
short videos of Mirabella and Mirabella V.

Email me if you want me to send them to you. It may
take as while as I'm travelling for the next few weeks.

http://community.webshots.com/user/islandman112

Bart

"Bart Senior" wrote in message
...
Here are a few pictures. It was a new camera and I
accidentally took a few movies instead of pictures.
I was trying to zoom in all these cases thinking I was
taking still photos. I have no way to upload these
videos.

I have two short videos of whales that actually show
more than a still photo would. I also have a few
short videos of Mirabella and Mirabella V.

Email me if you want me to send them to you. It may
take as while as I'm travelling for the next few weeks.

http://community.webshots.com/user/islandman112

Bart


Like the pics, especially the Indians.

Too bad you didn't have a zoom for this.

http://community.webshots.com/photo/...94563299BEygZk

John Cairns

When I was at the Indians last, some guy climbed the bigger of them and
almost fell off. He got scraped up pretty badly.

--
"j" ganz @@
www.sailnow.com

"Bart Senior" wrote in message
...
Here are a few pictures. It was a new camera and I
accidentally took a few movies instead of pictures.
I was trying to zoom in all these cases thinking I was
taking still photos. I have no way to upload these
videos.

I have two short videos of whales that actually show
more than a still photo would. I also have a few
short videos of Mirabella and Mirabella V.

Email me if you want me to send them to you. It may
take as while as I'm travelling for the next few weeks.

http://community.webshots.com/user/islandman112

Bart

"Bart Senior" wrote in message

Here are a few pictures. It was a new camera and I
accidentally took a few movies instead of pictures.
I was trying to zoom in all these cases thinking I was
taking still photos. I have no way to upload these
videos.

I have two short videos of whales that actually show
more than a still photo would. I also have a few
short videos of Mirabella and Mirabella V.

Email me if you want me to send them to you. It may
take as while as I'm travelling for the next few weeks.

http://community.webshots.com/user/islandman112

I pulled my camera up to take a shot of the Indians from the Norman Is.
side, just about the time a gaff schooner sailed past on the other side
between the largest rocks. Made a great shot. I had it professionally
printed (my own printer was junk at the time) and it hangs on the wall of my
den. The Indians are a great spot to shoot nubile young things as well, but
you probably already know that.

Max

Mirabella V is a big boat. It made boats 100' or
longer look little next to it.

Regarding the poacher:

I spent the last night on a day mooring at Buck Island, the
one south of St Thomas. Day-moorings mean you can
only stay one full day--right??? I'm sure it doesn't mean
day only--eh?

Anyway, the poacher came over early thinking he'd be
the only one there. He saw us but figured we wouldn't
say anything. So we got the numbers on the boat, which
he seemed to be trying to conceal at first. I decided to
take some pictures and caught him in mid-cast and then
dink'ed over to confront him. He looked white but
talked like a Jamacian. Fortunately, one of my crew
Sean lived in Jamacia for two years and could talk
the lingo.

We asked the poacher to release the fish, but he just got
angry, and said, "What you wan me to do man, rob
people?" I guess he thought that was a good argument.
He looked like the type that would rob people.

He also said he was just getting bait fish. But from
what I saw, from a distance, he was throwing away
the bigger fish. At one point he seemed angry and
slapped some of the fish by the tail hard to kill them
and then dumped them overboard. I guessed they were
parrot fish and not good for sale to the marine aquarium
market. He kept the fish in a cooler and seemed to
be trying to keep them alive and healthy. The all looked
to be very small fish.

Anyway, I was not happy that he seemed to be
routinely raping this prime snorkling location, where
fishing was prohibited, for personal gain. I'm going to
try and contact the locate someone who will take
action against him.

After this he motored to the other snorkling bay on the
other side to continue his dirty work.

I spotted him working on the water near the French
Quarter, but there was no sign of his boat or the cooler
he used to store the fish.


"Capt. Mooron" wrote

Nice shots Bart..... Man that is one friggin' big sailboat. How did you
meet the "poacher"??

It is not too hard. Except the airlines lost my
bags and I was stuck in shorts and short sleeves
at the airport. Anyway, I'm off to California
soon.

"katysails" wrote

Cool...didn't you just hate coming back to the cold?

Rough current there.

If you swim off the point on the up current side,
there is all kinds of activity in the standing wave.
Some big ones too.

We had a big Tarpon hanging out under the boat
at Norman Island. I will be posting some pictures
of that later.

Fish seem to like that.

"JG" wrote

When I was at the Indians last, some guy climbed the bigger of them and
almost fell off. He got scraped up pretty badly.

When we in Cane Garden, there were surfers. Fortunately, we were far enough
back to avoid most of the swell.

--
"j" ganz @@
www.sailnow.com

"Bart Senior" wrote in message
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Rough current there.

If you swim off the point on the up current side,
there is all kinds of activity in the standing wave.
Some big ones too.

We had a big Tarpon hanging out under the boat
at Norman Island. I will be posting some pictures
of that later.

Fish seem to like that.

"JG" wrote

When I was at the Indians last, some guy climbed the bigger of them and
almost fell off. He got scraped up pretty badly.

Hey John - So who won your contest? Its not nice to announce a 500
point prize and then disappear!




John Cairns wrote:
"Bart Senior" wrote in message
...

Here are a few pictures. It was a new camera and I
accidentally took a few movies instead of pictures.
I was trying to zoom in all these cases thinking I was
taking still photos. I have no way to upload these
videos.

I have two short videos of whales that actually show
more than a still photo would. I also have a few
short videos of Mirabella and Mirabella V.

Email me if you want me to send them to you. It may
take as while as I'm travelling for the next few weeks.

http://community.webshots.com/user/islandman112

Bart



Like the pics, especially the Indians.

Too bad you didn't have a zoom for this.

http://community.webshots.com/photo/...94563299BEygZk

John Cairns

Bart Senior wrote:
Here are a few pictures. Bart


Nice photos Bart.

Were you sailing aboard Maribella?

Nice looking motor sailor "Ketch1"

About the poacher, you should of called the coppers and held him there
until they arrived.

I can understand a man selling rare fish if its feeding his family,
but to kill bigger fish for no cause but the lack of profit... shows he
is ignorant and has no regard what so ever for anyone else.

Sad situation indeed. It would be smarter putting the locals to work
in a aquaculture co-op.

Anyway looks like you had a nice sail.

Joe

Bart Senior wrote:
Here are a few pictures. It was a new camera and I
accidentally took a few movies instead of pictures.
I was trying to zoom in all these cases thinking I was
taking still photos. I have no way to upload these
videos.

I have two short videos of whales that actually show
more than a still photo would. I also have a few
short videos of Mirabella and Mirabella V.


Just the pics are pretty impressive. I like the one of Mirabella in
profile with the cruise ships in the background... gives a sense of the
sheer size. It's actually a pretty boat.

BTW I agree about the jib lead. If it was really all the way forward,
and the foot was that stretched with the leach flopping, that was the
wrong sail. Was there not a 2nd track forward, or some other way to lead
the sheet?


Email me if you want me to send them to you. It may
take as while as I'm travelling for the next few weeks.

http://community.webshots.com/user/islandman112


OK.

And thanks for posting these. Looks like a great trip!

Fresh Breezes- Doug King

"Jeff" wrote in message
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Hey John - So who won your contest? Its not nice to announce a 500 point
prize and then disappear!

Hahhahahhahaha. No one. Really unfair, actually, the place is almost
completely obscure, I had to look up MAPS of the Caribbean to find any
references to it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isla_Aves

Good description, and I stand corrected, I wrote that this tiny little spit
of land belonged to France, wikpedia claims it's Venezuelan, which would
explain the presence of the Venezuelan Navy in that area. The only reason I
took the pics-5 or 6-was we couldn't make it out with binoculars, the 75-300
zoom is IS.

http://community.webshots.com/photo/...86047357hWKkrK

John Cairns




John Cairns wrote:
"Bart Senior" wrote in message
...

Here are a few pictures. It was a new camera and I
accidentally took a few movies instead of pictures.
I was trying to zoom in all these cases thinking I was
taking still photos. I have no way to upload these
videos.

I have two short videos of whales that actually show
more than a still photo would. I also have a few
short videos of Mirabella and Mirabella V.

Email me if you want me to send them to you. It may
take as while as I'm travelling for the next few weeks.

http://community.webshots.com/user/islandman112

Bart



Like the pics, especially the Indians.

Too bad you didn't have a zoom for this.

http://community.webshots.com/photo/...94563299BEygZk

John Cairns

WHy don't you post that one, or a link to it.

Bart

Maxprop wrote:

I pulled my camera up to take a shot of the Indians from the Norman
Is.
side, just about the time a gaff schooner sailed past on the other
side
between the largest rocks. Made a great shot. I had it
professionally
printed (my own printer was junk at the time) and it hangs on the
wall of my
den. The Indians are a great spot to shoot nubile young things as
well, but
you probably already know that.

Max

I wish I was sailing on Mirabella. Mirabella V is $250,000 a week to
charter.

Wow! What did she cost to build?

Scotty

"Bart Senior" wrote in message
oups.com...
I wish I was sailing on Mirabella. Mirabella V is $250,000 a week
to
charter.