Caribbean Note IV

I managed to get on the computer yet again. It's been a struggle! We've spent as much as a couple hours trying to get past the bad video card. We log on and in the minutes it takes to load up and move through the few screens to get on line the computer freezes or spasms out in a multi-colored array of odd shapes and patterns. Once we're on we have a great connection and (most times) minutes or a bit more to check email and such before we're knocked off again. We'll get this fixed when we get back, but will try to tough it out the next two weeks 'till then.

The big diving news is that we found a Seahorse at "The Lake". It was very exciting! We never see them. It was close in, shallow, brown and about three inches tall, hanging on a coral branch in the sand flats. Nice.

It seem like there are more critter this time than ever before. We're visited by some many birds during the day and now by bats at night who fly up onto our patio and eat the bugs off our screen door.

We're still on the Lionfish hunt and this week managed to get two in the net at once at "Chocogo". My free trip to the Windjammer is scheduled for this coming Friday and the latest sighting has three of them together at the crows nest in two hundred and twenty feet. Berit won't be able to come this time (too deep), but who knows, if she misses too many more dives like this, maybe there will be a rebreather in her future?

The vacant house next door finally has a Dutch couple staying there the last few days. We hope we can find out more about who owns the house. It would be nice to have "The Kids House" next door so you'd all have a place of your own to stay when you came to the island.

It seems like the past four weeks have gone by so quickly that we're thinking about our four weeks in Oregon before we return in the middle of April.