Mary and I arrived at the town of Coral Bay on Christmas Eve. Walked around town a bit, but it was late afternoon and everything was closing up. We returned to Echo for a nice Christmas Eve dinner (including an excellent bottle of Huron Mountain wine made by our friend Rich Baron).
After dinner a tremendous thunder storm rolled in. Very unusual down here. We were kind of tense while the winds where howling, but our anchor held well and we stayed put. After the storm passed us, we continued to see the sky lit up in all directions as more storm cells passed around the island.
The Christmas Day we moved around the point to Salt Pond Bay. We were the only boat, but the beach is public and quite popular so we had lots of people around to meet. We did some swimming and hiked out to a nice overlook called Rams Head. Along the trail we ran into some friends we had met a couple of days previous. Erich and Mary had sailed to St. John on a delivery passage from New York a month ago and decided to stay. We had an excellent dinner together at the world famous Tourist Trap bar.
We missed our family 🙁 but, all and all, a pretty nice way to spend the day.
Another day in paradise! Jeff, you can’t even see the big scar and you look so healthy! Unbelievable recovery and so happy for you both. Keep sending the beautiful pics….we are getting about 8 inches of snow today.
Jeff you are looking very well Happy New Year to both of you
Happy new year Bruce and Breeda, hope all is well in Mexico!
You still had a white Christmas, it was just white sand instead of snow! Merry Christmas.
Very beautiful. Have a wonderful new year as well
Merry Christmas! Yes, a tropical setting is a nice consolation for not being with family.
If you can’t be with your family this looks like a pretty great place to spend Christmas 🙂 I don’t think you ever get over missing your family (At least I never have) but being in the warmth of the sun and the beauty of the water is wonderful. Thanks again for the call, Jeff, it really, really meant a great deal to me. Love and miss you both. Happy New Year!!!