On April 4, Jack & Jo (Bodacious) and their guests joined our Armada at Spanish Point.  Gary & his wife (the guests) brought along with them a KISS counterpoise ground for our SSB (single sideband) radio.  With Jack’s help we had ordered the ground and had it shipped to Gary so that he could deliver it to us in Antigua.  It would be a few days before I could find the time in our busy recreational schedule to effect the installation, but in the meantime a celebration of Bodacious‘s arrival called for another sundowner.  Tusen Takk II stepped up to the plate, and broke the record of the previous night by squeezing in 20 guests.  (Four new belly buttons from Bodacious minus two from Kewaydin, who had departed by then.)   Some of the pictures:

Our small armada of vessels from Antigua landed off Spanish Point, Barbuda shortly after noon on April 1.  Already there and awaiting our delivery of fresh produce were Kim & Sandy (Kewaydin).  After some lunch, we gathered on the beach for a short walk up the eastern shore of the south part of the island.   Hikers included Kim & Sandy, Chris & Sheila (Never Bored), Robin & Cheryl (Just Imagine), Morris & Elizabeth (Viking Angel), Bill & Coleen (Dolce Vita), Eric & Jackie (Compass Rose) and the publishers of this blog.  Along the way Kim showed us the remains of the mobile construction offices that had been pushed over the cliff by a large group of Barbudans who opposed the construction of a huge hotel project at Spanish Point that had been approved by Antigua.  (The project was cancelled.)  Further up we found a giant log on the beach, the origin of which is a mystery.   Our turn-around point was a crater formed by a former sand mining operation.  The depression is deep enough to sometimes contain fresh water that is used by the donkeys, horses and fallow deer found on the island.