Tuesday on the 2009 Trip

Tuesday - Steve and Sue got up early and saw the sunrise. They also opened the door, per Bonnie’s request the night before, so Bonnie would know that we were up when she took her walk. (Bonnie never showed)

There were nine boats in the bay for the night. We had 11 on Saturday and 21 on Sunday nights. The immediate question for the day was "Do Nadine and Leroy bring in fresh water?"

After breakfast, Leroy did arrive with clean towels, etc. He said that they purchase drinking water although the Island was trying to bring them water. There are issues with the owners between Sandy Ground and the road so they can't buy it. We also discussed the excavations on Little Jost Van Dyke. Leroy wasn't aware of it but said that there were excavations north of us up the hill from the Bubbly Hole. Leroy also gave us the history of the caretakers at Sandy Grounds Estates;
_______ and Lilly 1973-75
Robert and Billy 1976-1992
Vic and Sandy 1993-1995
Paul and Liz 1996-2002
Leroy and Nadine 2003-now
We also learned that Leroy was born in 1968 and that Nadine was born on July 23, 1973.

After breakfast we went to Bubbly Hole which had plenty of visitors. We then went to Taboo for lunch. We were waited on by Pinkie who is Leroy’s cousin. She had also waited on us the prior year. After lunch everyone, but Scott and Rob, went back. Scott and Rob got direction on how to walk across to Little Jost Van Dyke from Shawn the bartender at Taboo. (He might have another name other than Shawn, but that is what Rob called him.) They walked across the area between the islands and visited the brothel that is on the north side of the island. It was a five room building with a series of four rooms in the back. From there they walked up above the dock for the brothel on the south side to see if they could find the ruins of the Lettsome Estate. They did find a house that was started and lots of thorns and cactus. It was decided that we needed longs pants which is what Leroy had told us earlier. In the water, we found quite a few live conchs. Everyone back at Sandy Grounds was at the beach so Rob and Scott joined them when they returned. Late in the afternoon, we lost our electricity. Loretta fixed one of the greatest Caribbean pizzas. Afterwards we played farkle, which is a dice game that requires luck and skill. Luck is part of the dice shaking and skill is part of controlling greed. Sue was the winner with 10,250, followed by Scott with 6,800, Steve 6,700, Loretta 5,700, Bonnie 4,850, and Rob with 750. It is assumed that Rob is the unluckiness, greediest bastard that ever played farkle in the history of mankind.