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Re: A little BVI nostalgia
[Re: rm3]
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12/17/2016 11:33 PM
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YachtReprise
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oh, gosh, so many!
- Beatrice and Clementine, Norwell and Flawell on Salt Island - with Clementine singing her signature song for every charter guest. - No structures or mooring balls at all in the Bight. Very lightly traveled - sometimes being completely alone. - Antilles Airboats landing in West End. - The original donkey, Chocolate, at the Last Resort. Jeremy and Jessica running around as little kids. Philip keeping the generator alive. - Foxy turning to religion, and back again. - The entrance range at White Bay, rarely attempted by any boat, redlined for all bareboats. - Uncle Bob and Nell actually running Smugglers Cove as a 'resort' - Free mooring, as long as you built it yourself. - Rick Norton and Poor Richards (now Pussers) - Stanley's - the only bar in CGB, and his famous tire swing. - All dirt roads, except for The Queens Highway - Latitude 18 25 charters - The toll collector at Beef Island, with a tin cup on a stick. - Air BVI and their awesome DC-3s So many more....but I gotta pee!
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Re: A little BVI nostalgia
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12/18/2016 12:06 AM
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HillsideView
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Pop Rhymer helping you land your dinghy in CGB...and telling you where the coldest beer was to be found. And how many remember Jill's in CGB? Lucky to find a phone booth that actually worked (or wasn't constantly occupied) to call back home with a bag of coins in your pocket. The calling cards Unable&Worthless came out with made life easier, well, coin wise. Still had to find a payphone that functioned. Bomba cooking chicken on a car wheel. And the shack was all of 10x20. There was a farmer who walked with his donkey through Cane Garden every day just before sunrise and he'd be headed home right around sunset. Every day. And sleeping aboard with only windscoops. No AC.
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Re: A little BVI nostalgia
[Re: HillsideView]
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12/18/2016 01:59 AM
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Posts: 1,687 Memphis, BVI, CT
RatmansWife
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- half a coconut on the stick at QEII bridge - the Penn's nursery in the Old Customs area in the middle of town
And from my better half... - landing at the old airstrip, when the first pass was to chase the cows - sign at the airport "Customs closed, come back in the morning" - Richard Batham hosting at Marina Cay - a bunch of guys coming to get our old Lister generator and taking it to Foxy's, where it powered his place for many years - buying groceries at the little shops on Main St., where they would put your purchases in a bag on the porch, and then a taxi would just appear and drive down the street picking them up - the radio telephone at Marina Cay
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Re: A little BVI nostalgia
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12/18/2016 09:36 AM
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Bob Dennison's honor bar at Smuggler's Cove. Pirate's Pub on Saba Rock. Donovan's Reef on Scrub Island
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. - Mark Twain
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Re: A little BVI nostalgia
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12/18/2016 07:46 PM
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Mini mokes Jack Hargass ( waterman Jack) of Virgin Gorda Horseback riding at Little Dix
Rita It is better to be happy than it is to be right
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Re: A little BVI nostalgia
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12/18/2016 09:33 PM
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SoakInSaltwater
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JVD before electricity and Gertrude's cooler well stocked with "greenies".
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Re: A little BVI nostalgia
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12/19/2016 05:28 PM
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HillsideView
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The BVI's were a much different place pre catamarans.
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Re: A little BVI nostalgia
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12/20/2016 01:10 PM
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Kirk
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My first time was only back in winter 2002, but the things I miss the most are Donavan's Reef and Pirates at the Bight.
Last edited by Kirk; 12/20/2016 01:11 PM.
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Re: A little BVI nostalgia
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12/20/2016 07:40 PM
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sunnybuns
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Drakes anchorage villa 2 87'. Riding bike back and forth to villa and lime tree beach. Help yourself bar in the morn. / aft. Honeymoon beach ALONE. Victor the chef. Trips in the sound with the boatman( cant remember his name but heard he went to necker)sightseeing and my brother in law asking about if he could find any "contraband". He said yeah we have country bands at Bitter End playing once and a while. Moskito marys.Sunkun tile tub, hanging chair in kitchen.
the smaller the poop, the better the pet
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Re: A little BVI nostalgia
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12/20/2016 08:49 PM
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rhans
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wmangum said: Lowell Wheatley Thanks for the reminder Walker <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/duh.gif" alt="" /> Was an honor to have met him
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Re: A little BVI nostalgia
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12/20/2016 09:00 PM
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Posts: 4,597 Cow Wreck Beach
wmangum
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The after-dinner open cordial and liqueur bar at the Anegada Reef Hotel
Walker Mangum Cow Wreck Beach, Anegada
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Re: A little BVI nostalgia
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12/20/2016 09:08 PM
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rhans
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Lowell and Sue after hours Damn Walker you made me smile again Keep going buddy
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Re: A little BVI nostalgia
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12/20/2016 09:17 PM
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wmangum
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rhans said: Keep going buddy Anegada Sand Soap from Lowell's soap factory. And - yes - after hours with Sue and Lowell. Those were great times.
Walker Mangum Cow Wreck Beach, Anegada
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Re: A little BVI nostalgia
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12/20/2016 09:29 PM
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wmangum
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The hinged floating pier at Cooper Island. Best amusement park ride ever in the BVI.
Walker Mangum Cow Wreck Beach, Anegada
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Re: A little BVI nostalgia
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12/21/2016 09:12 AM
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Kirk
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How about Rambo at Neptunes!
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Re: A little BVI nostalgia
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12/21/2016 01:13 PM
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Posts: 4,597 Cow Wreck Beach
wmangum
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Ragtime said: Bert Kilbride at the Pirates Pub! Absolutely!
Walker Mangum Cow Wreck Beach, Anegada
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Re: A little BVI nostalgia
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12/21/2016 03:44 PM
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Joined: Apr 2002
Posts: 3,455 Virginia wishing STJ
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So many great memories in the BVI from days gone by! I have a hard time listing without pictures, so here are just a few of my BVI nostalgia moments A view of Little Dix 1978 from a USCG Helicopter. Flying around the BVI on patrols or SAR missions were always filled with spectacular views. Enjoying the Baths in 1979 with my sweetie. We were the only people there for entire afternoon. Those days are definitely gone. Pulling into Cooper in 1988 on our first charter trip. The bar had a great painkiller and sign that answered any small talk question that you could think of, and a humongous dog… or was it two big dogs. The queen’s car in the bar at smugglers in 1992. We made the short walk to Smugglers from Long Bay to discover we were the only ones there. There was a coffee tin with a few dollars in it and cooler of cold beer. Honor bars anywhere are good thing! Sitting in Club Paradise in 92 drinking some of the best Rum Punches I have ever had waiting on “When” The ferry that ran from the West End to JVD, when… ever it decided to. I sure wish I had a pic of When. If I remember right it was like an old landing craft. Could be wrong on that one.
“Every time I open a bottle of wine, it is an amazing trip somewhere!” José Andrés
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Re: A little BVI nostalgia
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12/21/2016 05:24 PM
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HillsideView
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Saw When abandoned over in RoadTown a couple years ago. Had gone to visit VISAR and passed it when I made a wrong turn. I expect it is still there. Just took a look at Google Earth. I think When may actually be pushed up alongside Waterfront Drive at TMM. See if this link works... https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid...893442&z=19Open it and switch to earth view. Left hand corner.
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