To give our guests as full a day as we can at Anegada we leave Leverick Bay at around 9. I serve breakfast on the go and by the time it’s done and the washing up is complete I am very hot and sweaty and starting to feel seasick, but I quickly recover once I get outside.
We have a lovely sail over, reaching 8.4 knots, but averaging around 6.5 most of the way and it only takes an hour and three quarters to get there. Anchored outside Neptune’s Treasure, Mike organises a hire car for the guests and they go off to explore the island and its beaches, notably Cow Wreck Beach and Loblolly Bay.
I spend the day cleaning up a bit and actually sunbathe for a short while. Mike takes the opportunity of having a rest as he has a headache.
The guests dine ashore and don’t come back until around 7.30, but when they return they bring back a huge red snapper weighing about 12lbs. Burhan bought it from a young girl at the dock. Initially, being a good salesman, she tried to charge him $200, but he knocked her down to $100, knowing full well that it was only worth $40-50. He didn’t mind being hustled because he liked her enterprising spirit! He managed to get some bait and a couple of hooks thrown in with the deal, although when he tried to get a heavy duty empty reel included in the deal, she stiffed him for another $5. Quite a smart cookie for a 12-year old girl! The young lady in question was Vernon’s granddaughter, (he’s the owner of Neptune’s Treasure) and he found it very entertaining to see that she had inherited his entrepreneurial spirit!
They clean the snapper when they get back to the boat – tomorrow it is going on the barbeque. They continue to fish for quite some time, getting a black finned shark, but nothing I consider edible comes back to the boat.
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