Hello From Texas

No, these are not pictures of Texas, but to let you know that we have returned from our wonderful island adventure.

As some of you know, we have been visiting friends of the eastern Caribbean island of Anguilla.

We met our friends in the small mountain town of Colorado, where we spend our summers. Donna and Ed who actually live in Tennessee, have been going to Anguilla for two months in the winter for over twenty years now. Above shows their two balconies overlooking the Caribbean Sea.

This rather hazy early morning view (that we never tired of) shows how close they are to the north shore of St. Martin.

 Anguilla does have a small airport, but we arrived by plane in St. Martin and took the public ferry for  a bit of a wild ride (depending on how large the waves are) arriving in less than 30 min. at a place called Blowing Point.

Four of our relaxing days there were spent on the beach. The shore out in front of their condo is all coral, so they took us to just a few of the thirty three amazing beaches on the island.

There is no charge for the comfortable lounge chairs with umbrellas, but you are ask to have lunch in their casual beach side restaurant

which we were more than happy to do.

Not only did we enjoy the blue water, white sands and gentle breezes, but gazing at the enormous yachts. Our friend Ed has an app on his phone where you can tell where the ship is registered, where is sailed from and it's specs. This one was flying a flag from Malta.

I will post more pictures of our trip and explain a little about this hidden gem of an island later in the week.