For me this was a second Commonwealth Contest from the Caribbean paradise of Rawlins Plantation, St Kitts.

This location is free of overhead power cables - the curse of the Caribbean - and is on the northern slopes of the active volcano Liamuiga. We hiked to the rim on Tuesday after the contest and saw a little puff of smoke in the crater!
I arrived at the luxurious bungalow, where I was to operate, at 5:30am to find two aerials on the ground as nails had pulled out of a softwood tree; thankfully, the lines which supported the aerials were still in place and within 10 minutes, under the light of my head-torch, the aerials were back at 40 feet or so -  suspended again from the tall tropical trees.

Radio
My FT897 (barefoot) worked quite well. The front end doesn't behave when there are lots of stations calling - this is not a huge Beru problem - but is difficult for normal dxpedition operation. Outside Beru I followed advice and opened the filters and wound the RF gain down until I could pick out individual stations. The RF gain on the 897 is a bit weird - it cuts out at about 30% position, but this made running possible with quite big pileups.
A couple of quirks came to light:
1. It is almost impossible to turn the radio on if the CAT port is being polled.
2. If you put your fingers near the RF or AF gain knobs while sending, you get RF feedback into the CW monitor.

Aerials
R6000 Cushcraft vertical for 20, 15 and 10
20, 15 and 10 dipoles on a common centre, suspended about 40ft up between trees
80 and 40 dipoles on a common centre, suspended about 40ft up between trees

Bands
10m - very quiet but worked VP8 and J88.
15m - Most of Canada, some ZL and ZS, but nothing from Europe despite a few attempts. The dipole was best for most contacts.
20m - Pretty good but without rotatable directional aerials I was a bit down on other caribbean stations. The vertical was better for DX and the dipole better for Canada.
40m - Easily my best band as my dipole was on a par with most other stations
80m - Also very good with more Qs than 20m

General
It was disappointing to have no Qs with any station in the Indian Ocean region. Also VK contacts were down on last year.
I had some very persistent non Beru callers. But I worked about 1500 outside the Beru period with the callsign V4/G4FAL, so I think I gave the non-commonwealth countries a good shot.

Thanks to everyone for the QSOs - I have uploaded all QSOs to LoTW - so no need to QSL for DXCC credits unless you want a pretty card.

Have a look at my facebook photo album if you really have time to waste:

QSL: For QSLs for V47CD and V4/G4FAL please send to my home call - full details on QRZ.COM.