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La Medianoche is directly behind us on a mooring. A very nice and familiar view. Now we are also missing "Bagalut" with Walter and Brigitte and " Vanora" with Tina and Peter and Chico. Also "Jalan Jalan" with Liz and John and "Norm the storm" with Erika and Norman would be cool. Today we went by commercial ferry to St Thomas. We started at Westend which is directly opposite the marina and left at 10.15. After a 50 minutes ride along nice beaches of St John we arrived in St Thomas and saw the US flag flying. They checked our passports, we had to give fingerprints and they took a digital image of us and stamped the passport with an entry for 3 months. They told us to keep the green exit card and now we could come back with LinoCat. But first we want to visit the island "Jost van Dyke" tomorrow or the day after. Here you see one of the anchorages of St Thomas. You can also take a seaplane from here. We saw 2 of them starting and it looked...

This is the approach to Sopers hole marina on Tortola, BVI. The water is deep (17m) and clear. Moorings are installed here due to the depth. The amount of moorrings also makes it tricky to use the own anchor and so we are also picking up a mooring here. There is a nice breeze and good weather and the marina has a nice restaurant, cafe, shops, supermarket etc. We also meet Ralf and Helmut with the La Medianoche, they are anchoring right behind us and yesterday evening we had a BBQ on Linocat with them. They brough 2,5 liter of rum punsch and guess what the bottle was empty soon and it was very good. The sund is shining and so we get almost 50A of charging current during the midday hours. Nicely painted house The marina area You remember that it was impossible to get a french gas bottle filled in St Martin? Well, here we got one but look at the shape of the bottle. Completely rusted! UGLY YUCK! Check out how our bottles looked (to the right). That is what i hate about exchange of bottles...