Living up to my blog name...Island Adventures

So much fun

 and adventure
has happened within the last week
during our vacation

rock climbing, cliff jumping, spear fishing

It is hard to know where to start...

so I will continue to outline a day-by-day
recap of our wonderful holiday

Day six

Little Bay, Anguilla

Cute 'little bay' with a secluded atmosphere

you have to either arrive here by boat
or
rock climb down a steep cliff

although since it was featured on the shoe "The Bachelor" 

we had lots of other people joining in our fun.

View above Little Bay

Climbing down Little Bay

The Ladies Above Little Bay (Ashley, Angela, Anne)

The cooler handoff 

A very important job

The gentlemen (Joel, Nathan, Steve)

A popular Little Bay attraction is 

cliff jumping into the water.

From the top...

it was a very high jump

into very clear but very deep water

this illusion was a bit much for some of us...

after this experience

it became clear our friends and ourselves 

fall into three categories 

when asked the question

'if your friends all jumped off a bridge, would you?'

Ashley 

would not

I might 

(after hesitating I jumped once, climbed up to jump a second time, but climbed down)

Ashley and I hesitating to Jump

and

Anne, Joel, Nathan, and Steve

Would in a heart beat!

Anne jumping like a pro!

All in all, a great day and  island adventure!

Later we returned to Shoal bay Beach 

to enjoy the Caribbean Sunset

C'est Romantique

We LOVE Anguilla!

Day Seven

Spear fishing

need I say more

A local guy (Garvin) who takes care of our villa 

and his brother

took us spear fishing

in our own back yard

we caught a feast

Something's Fishy....

well...actually...

 it's a good thing the locals helped

because from our group 

Steve was the only success

catching two small fish

Rainbow Fish

Fish Models......I think yes! 

One of these things is not like the other

Although my fish 

in the above picture is big

It's not quite as big as the Marlin below 

caught during the fishing competition

during the Festival Del Mar

It was lots of fun snorkeling 

and watching the guys fish

they even cleaned them for us!

later we had an excellent feast:)

Day Eight

Easter Sunday

we joined in the spirit of easter 

and went to an Easter Sunday mass

The Caribbean flavor is infused into the service 

for example

they sing the 'our father'

in an funky and upbeat manner.

Crash, Bang, Boom or Bam!

All our fun got the best of us

we all had a great afternoon siesta...

We toasted our Anguilla trip with drinks 

at another fancy resort

Cap Julica

Sun Set Pictures at Cap Julica

Cheers to a great Vacation!

 Anguilla 

truly is a Caribbean paradise

we left with lots 

and lots

of fond memories

for the second, but much shorter, leg of our vacation

St. Barts