Well its Friday.

Sigh Friday.

Our week is drawing to a close.  We enjoyed a long day at Salomon Beach yesterday, managed to burn the top of my head (again).

We went to ‘The Fish Trap’ last night for dinner, that was ok.  I think they had a new cook so my blackened fish and shrimps were just that.  But Matt and I did get a double helping of scallops since they sent us blackened scallops and we ordered sauteed.

So it turns out that eating fish found high on the food chain here in the Virgin Islands is actually quite bad for you.  Lower fish consume some algae that contain the toxin Ciguatera (see link), then get passed up the food chain to larger fish where it accumulates in high enough doses to be bad for humans.  So when we purchased the red snapper from the fisherman the other day we didn’t know we were playing russian roulette with a poison that can has been misdiagnosed as Multiple Sclerosis.  Yikes!  So from now on we are only getting seafood in the restaurants here, its just quite sad that what we eat isn’t going to be truly “fresh” as they have to import most of the tasty fishes consumed here.

We are heading back to Woody’s tonight so that if we consume to much alcohol tonight we have all day tomorrow to recover before the long journey back home.

Today we are off to Francis and Maho Bay’s for some sitting and snorkeling.

Oh here is a pic from yesterday.