westbaylodge - HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!!

Well, it is looking like I can start posting regularly again. It has been one crazy thing after another. First with the battery for my computer; then the internet going away; then last week we had our new internet hooked up and then we starting having major power outages daily which even when the power came on it was still kicking off the new internet. One of the 2 main generators for the island was down and they were only able to power 1/2 the island at a time and then they got in a whole ship load of bad deisel. It looks like everything is working fine now. We have been really busy here. We are still full and booked into the first part of March. As busy as it gets for us around here it is also that much fun. We are meeting some of the nicest people. We have our new duplex bungalow mostly finished and is nice to be able to accomadate larger families with the lock of door in between. We are working on our new office down at the bottom of the driveway near the street. It should be finished by the first of next week. We have hired a new person, Tonya, to work and she is busy putting together some great tour packages. One of the new packages is Anthony's Key dolphin encounter where you go out to the dolphin pens and get to play with them and learn and then have your photo taken, this awesome if you have never been with a dolphin; the photo below is of Carrol Deal playing with the dolphins; Zip line canopy tour and then you land in Gumbalimba park where you can play on the beach and go through the gardens and then go up and play with the big macaws and feed the monkeys. This is all for $79 and you don't have to do it all in 1 day. The office will also have a spot for all Marine park information and selling of their items. We are already renting cell phones by the week out of it for $25 including a LP100 phone card. People are really loving this idea; especially for groups traveling together to keep in contact with each. We will sell some wines by the bottle and some items that people like to take home for gifts that are locally made; coffee, hot sauce, cactus juice, jam, vanilla, ect.
I was just in West End this morning and was happy to see that the main road (made of sand) has just been re graded. From the rains in the last few months it was getting very hard to drive down and it looked more like a roller coaster.
Last night was sushi night again and it was nice to have started up again. Danielle had been gone for a few weeks so she was closed.
Well, since I have started this post the power has gone out twice, and the internet has been up & down. I will just be glad that at this time we seem to have both.
Celeste