Saba

[Kevin's Post]Believe it or not, we picked up another Saba Marine Park mooring yesterday after dragging one a half mile. The water is too deep to anchor without getting really close to the rocky shoreline, so we decided to give the moorings another chance. They're free and I guess you get what you pay for. The one we are on now appears to be screwed into the bottom, we think the one we were on yesterday was just attached to a big concrete block. Today we were going to go back and snorkel the mooring we dragged to see exactly what kind of brilliant design it was, but by the time we got there the park had already removed the mooring ball so nobody else would tie on to it. At least they responded quickly, I have to give them credit for that. They didn't stop by to say 'Hi' or refund our park fees or anything though. I don't think this is the first time this has happened, the park chart shows all the moorings evenly spaced along a straight line north to south, but in reality they are all over the place.

After nearly having our boat smashed to bits, we decided it probably wasn't a good idea to leave the boat unattended on these moorings. We had hoped to hike to the top of the island, but decided it just wasn't worth the worry. If there were some other boats here we might have asked them to keep an eye on Solstice for us. But there is only one other boat, and we dragged right past him yesterday. He either didn't notice or didn't care. So today we just took it easy relaxing on the boat, did some laundry, read, and went for a quick snorkel nearby. The new underwater camera housing works great. We've used underwater disposable cameras before and the pictures always came out really bad. So it is fun to be able to get some decent underwater photos. Most of the pictures are of Amanda though, since everything else swims away. Amanda swims away sometimes too.