Gringos in the TCI Photo Blog

[Gringo]

Why didnt you ground it at high tide?

[FishBlueWater]

Basically that is what we did, but the tidal change was like 8 ft or so so it was tough to get it totally dry. I wasn't running the show I was just helping with what the locals were saying to do.

[Gringo]

In my experiences here and there, listening to the locals always seems to have been the best thing to do, whether I realized it when I started or not.

Was just curious. Always trying to learn.

[Gringo]

Here's a coral head on the Caicos Bank. Easy to spot on a sunny day:

But when the sun is oblique, or shining in your eyes,or its night, they are not so easy to spot. You really don't want to run over one if you draw more than a couple feet of water. really.

I call this composition...."Hermit Crab on Suicide Run"


Baby Cerro....throw him back


I think this is one of them there isolated thundershowers we been hearing about:


"Isolated ThunderStorms", my ass....

[JD5652]

Obviously I'm working TOO DAMN HARD since I just fournd this GREAT thread!

A belated Welcome Aboard Gringo and La Gringa! Wow what a beautiful place you guys have chosen to be your home.....

So..La Gringa....one of my dock mates here in CT are from Sparta, NJ...John & Michaela Valetta....do you guys know them??

Also, my nephew will be playing in the Cape Cod league this summer for the Bourne Braves...I've spent quite a few years vacationing out on the Cape myself .....

Keep the paradise pics coming....we still have a LOT of snow on the ground in southern New England

[Proheat]

Awesome Pics Gringo!!!
It looks like you are living the dream that many people dream!!
Welcome Aboard and I'm looking forward to alot more pics and stories.

[conchyshel]

It seems like everyone has moved over here. I was known as R.waddill on THT glad I found this site

[La Gringa]

Obviously I'm working TOO DAMN HARD since I just fournd this GREAT thread!

A belated Welcome Aboard Gringo and La Gringa! Wow what a beautiful place you guys have chosen to be your home.....

So..La Gringa....one of my dock mates here in CT are from Sparta, NJ...John & Michaela Valetta....do you guys know them??

Also, my nephew will be playing in the Cape Cod league this summer for the Bourne Braves...I've spent quite a few years vacationing out on the Cape myself .....

Keep the paradise pics coming....we still have a LOT of snow on the ground in southern New England

Hi JD,

No, I don't think I know them. If they have teenaged and older kids, my sons may know them. The last few years in NJ I was either travelling to Cape Cod or Gringo was coming to Sparta -- every weekend. In either case, we pretty just holed up and did our thing.

[Gringo]

My family is all in Texas, a mob of about 20 or so, and they will be having bbq beef brisket and pecan pie and chicken fried venison steak, you know.. all that east texas redneck stuff. La Gringas family is in Pennsylvania, another mob of 20+, and they will be having traditional turkey type stuff.

We have three of our five sons coming down tomorrow. If its like last year, we will take the boat over to one of the smaller cays and find our Christmas Stump.

First, get em acclimated. Put them in the water and make them swim ashore and find a stump:

Man, them wintertime yankees is so white I need shades...

Then get it on the boat and secured...

(notice who is not working at this, since he was standing in the water taking photos..)

Then ran them over to a suitable sand bar, flung em back in and said "Find me some sand dollars or something..."


Head for home with a suitable bow watch on duty:


Trim it up with a recip saw so it fits the corner, string the sand dollars, some lights, a nice helmet conch on the top...


Feed em beer ( where appropriate) and conch chili til they pass out...then sneak in a load of gifts, and voila....your basic Christmas Stump ready for the big day:


and you thought we weren't traditional. Ha.

[FishBlueWater]

Thats awesome!!
Quite an original way of having a Christmas tree!!

I love IT!!