Bequia

Picture this:

Out on the aft (back) deck, watching the sun go down with the wind blowing in my sweaty hair after a long run on the treadmill and a long day of work and fire costumes...

Great picture in your head, well thats exactly my position as I'm typing this sentence.

We are at anchor in Bequia, Grenadine islands, about 1,600 miles south of Miami, FL, USA.

This is the hull of our boat and big tender on the side of it. The big tender is 42ft long (almost double our ski boat) just to put everything in perspective. This picture was taken in Canouan, the furthest point south I've gone. 

We now are in Bequia Harbor for the next week or so. We are waiting to hear from the owners about when they want to come aboard. We are normally based out of Antigua but the owners love traveling to all new places they've never been before so they will want to go more south thus there is no reason to travel all the way back to Antigua just to come back down here. They will fly their private jet down to where ever the boat is. No big deal.

Same with the last guests they had a private jet who picked up two people two days earlier from St. Lucia and then the next people from the Grenadine Islands at anytime they wanted. #thelife

New years Eve we spent at anchor in Mustique, which is the private island where no country actually owns it. Every little bit of land is personally owns by private owners. It's the island that Kate and Prince William take their yacht to. For our guests to be able to go on land they had to pay $150 per person and another $50 to get into the NYE party. The amount of money spent while on a trip is amazing. $165,000 for a week plus $33,000 tip, food which they had steaks, lobster, shrimp, and caviar every single night then $5,000 worth of flowers. Money clearly is no object. One of the sons ordered bottles of tequila that he loved and had one shot out of a bottle which cost $175 per bottle and we ordered 12 bottles. 

Some day I'll be looking back on all this and think "I can't believe I thought that was a big deal." (hopefully)

Having some fun diving off the fly bridge on our day off. Got to show off my skills a little bit. I did a front 1 1/5 and everyone was VERY impressed. Capt loved it. 

Cheers