Hi!!!
Our computer is miraculously working again for the moment! We have been checking e-mails & trying to skype people. Hope you are all doing well back home!
We are in Staniel Cay. We are stuck here until the weather clears up next week. We will be headed to Georgetown to meet up with "Free At Last" so that will be really fun!! Staniel Cay is pretty cool. It's a small laid back island with nice people. We went for a walk to the "grocery store" the other day & it ended up being a small house up someones driveway & there was just a little bit of most of the staples that we needed.
Everyone has a huge interest in Skippy here. It's so funny. We can't walk him anywhere without locals asking us about him. "does he bite?" is the most common question & "is he a snow dog from Alaska?" is the second. Everyone thinks he is a husky... weird. We were coming down the driveway & the little kids playing at the bottom were completely freaked out by him, but wanted to touch him really bad, so after some coaxing they all got to pet him & the smallest little boy who couldn't have been more than 3 or 4 insisted on walking him. ...he didn't get very far before skippy pulled the leash out of his hand & kept on going. THey were really happy though. None of them had seen a dog like him before, let alone walked one!
We were off to find the post office after our grocery adventure & never did. I guess it is a green house on the island & you just go up & knock on the door & the lady takes your mail. I saw three green houses & really didn't want to knock on them all, because I thought it might be rude, so we will hold our mail until Georgetown.
The coolest part of Staniel Cay is something we are waiting to see when it gets sunny out. It is Thunderball cave! It's a cave you swim into & it opens up & there is a huge skylight in the top that makes the water a crazy color apparently. I'm a little nervous about swiming out here though, because yesterday we saw 9 sharks & I caught the worlds largest Barracuda the other day really close to the caves on accident. We will just be extra carefull when jumping in. THe Barracuda was insane!! We can't stop talking about it! We had the fishing lines out finally, because we are out of the no fishing areas in the Park anymore & we were heading around a small rock island to anchor & Bam.. fish on the line, so Ben drove the boat slowly around the rock as I tried my best to reel in this monster who kept taking all my line out as soon as I had reeled any in & Ben ended up having to throw the anchor down right there. The Barracuda would not stop fighting. It was a really good jumper too.I got it to us & we didn't want it in the boat, because of it's razor teeth, so Ben had the gaff hook out there & as the fish was fighting & flailing it's 4 foot self around he managed to yank the hook out. We were releaved! We got some nice pictures of it though.
We caught a few more small fish & kept the one that was actually big enough to eat. It's nice to be catching our own food again!! When we get to Gtown Ben will go spear fishing & get us some big groupers hopefully. We don't want to spear fish here, because we can't imagine swiming around with a bloody fish in the middle of all these sharks. No thank you!
-well, keep on writing comments! We like to read them! Hello April, Kevin, & Kelly! Thanks for writing! It's good to hear from you! :)
-Kristen, Ben, & Skippy
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Hey guys! Sounds like I need to come down just for the fishing!! How fun. Sounds like Skippy is having fun. Is he sweltering in the heat yet? It's been really nice here. 40's and low 50's. Not good snowmobiling weather! sad.... It's only Feb.,though. We always get more snow. Hope all is well. We all miss you at home. Jess
Aloha! Great to read your adventures, and glad to know that Skip Dog is well loved by the islanders - who wouldn't love him?!
We are back from the Big Island, where the biggest lizards we saw were the gekko's. we stayed in the same house that we rented four years ago for our wedding. It was still awesome, even is they have paved the road into the park.
All is well here and we are happy to hear you guys are doing well. Keep posting those blogs,
Janet and Doug
Hey you three,
Good to hear all is well.
We all know how SPECIAL Skippy is. He must be puffed up over all the attention.
You are not missing much here. The weather is cold. In the 40's at most.
I miss you lot's. You were not here to make Valentine cookies with me. I went to some bake shops and thought of you and what you would think of the cookie cutters and decorations that I saw.
Keep on writing.....
Love,
Mom
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