Sunday, February 3, 2013

Returning to San Juan

The day came to return to San Juan where we had to attend a symposium and get back to working. We were collected at 8:30am and headed off to Beef Island airport. We checked in at A




ir Sunshine and headed for some breakfast. Just as we were finishing the staff were looking for us (~9:30am) telling us we were leaving early. Our departure was scheduled for 10:30am.

We paid our exit fees, passed through security and off to the airplane. The captain asked whether anyone had told us that there would be an additional stop in Virgin Gorda to pick up some extra passengers. They hadn’t, but it was fine. Flying a short hop over there was fun, especially the landing on what looked like a dirt track runway. To head into the runway one flies at an angle around a mountain and at the last moment the plane flattens out to land. What a blast.

As we picked up more passengers, one of our group was asked to sit in the co-pilot’s seat and firmly instructed not to touch anything. He obeyed orders and we had a good flight over to San Juan where we arrived early.

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