A few more pictures today

 

Here's some pictures of the damage

 

Here you can see some thing hit the top of the boat and pushed down the cupboard and you can see through to the outside

 

 Water in the boat. I believe that the bilge pump worked hard until it drained the batteries.

 Broken hatch

 Cleat ripped away from the boat

 Mast snapped right off.

 Laurie trying to take it all in.

 Mast and boom

 Here you can see the hole in the side. There was also water in the fridge so I think water was coming in from different places.

 Last picture I took of Mauna Kea before we left.

 

A few pictures from around the hotel

 Here is the beach where you can stand and have planes land just over you head. The beach is gone!

 The BBQ on the right was taken from the restaurant next door. The staff cook us a few meals here.

 

 

After arriving in Ontario I contacted one of the employees of the marina where we had docked the boat. He was in Collingwood visiting family as the hurricane pass Sint Maarten. We talked about the violence that was happening on both sides of the island. I was telling him that when we were anchored out in the lagoon we could hear motorcycles racing around the island at will. I asked him why these kids get away with it and never get stopped buy the police. I also said it was a rare site to see police anywhere on the island. He explained to me that Sint Maarten and St Martin are very violent places and these kids do as they please. Murders on the island are keep quite so it won't scare the tourist away. He also said that the death count after this hurricanes will be very low because they will only count bodies that are known residence and not tourist or anyone like our boat friends that have stayed there for years. I hear from many people that they love Sint Maartin and St Martin and they did not know about the violence there. Some thing to think about when visiting any Caribbean Island.