The girls were in the water and I went around to explore the island. Saw this incredible cacti with the flower looking like a red hat all around the steep cliff walls. It was far away but I would estimate the each cactus to be at least four to six feet high.

Does anybody know what cactus this is?

The picture is a bit grainy since it was taken from my old iPhone while being inside a waterproof plastic pouch!

Check out the color of the water!

A school of nearly three and a half feet fish were lazily swimming around. Their size and laziness are explained by pretty much the same thing – all the pizza crust and chicken wings they get from the adjoining restaurants without even having to ask for it!

The last time we were in a sea plane, we were going to Vancouver Island in Canada. Nikita was not even born. But she had no interest in trying out one today. She is totally a water person!

As a young child in fourth grade, I was totally taken in by the concept of a sea plane when I first saw it in a cartoon series. How many of you remember Tintin and the Crab with the Golden Claws and the yellow colored seaplane in it?

We have reached Frederiksted. Waiting for our boat to take us away to day of adventures!

Nikita and I were walking around the property when I spotted that interesting coconut tree.

“A recalcitrant tree,” I told her.

“What?”

Well, the rest of the trees went up for sunlight. This one said “Nah, I am going the other way”.

Nikita looked at the same tree and gave her verdict – “Cotangent!”

That is nerdier than me! And something that makes me very proud of her!

[If you do not remember your pre-calc from high school, google up “cotangent graph”]

Sharmila and I were walking on the beach when we saw this. Fairly large piece of rock. Which is really a reef, looks like. What is that bright color? There were a couple of much smaller rocks with patches of the same color on them. Is this the original natural color of the coral?