" A LADY " TRIP AROUND THE WORLD (at present, the Grenadines, Carribbean )
A Lady
Stephen Hyde
Mon 28 Dec 2009 14:44
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FRIDAY 25th DECEMBER 2009 ----
CHRISTMAS DAY
Another beautifull sunny day, No mad rush as we all
went to 19.00hrs Mass last night in the local church in Bequia, Mass took a
solid 2 hours
with all the music , singing and drum
playing. this was followed by dinner in the " Devils table" and a
very ,very , late night was had by the young crew,
who met Clieve and Alice deasey ashore and went on
a total tear. This resulted in little sleep for the senior members of the
ship..
Ahhhh well, great to be young....
Christmas Day,, no need to mention that
a very slow start was had by all,
Following a slow breckfast, and a swim, the skipper
set about preparing the Christmas Dinner, The stuffing first, and then got
the turkey ready for cooking,
A Lady has an electric cooker and oven, The main
advantage of this is ,it works off the batteries and generator, and we never
have to worry abuot looking for GAS, ( this would be an even bigger problem in
the Pacific )
The boat has 11 batteries under the floor, (
3no 12volt batteries and 8no 24volt batteries) and these drive all the yacht's
electronic's, navigational equipment, and of course the cooker, the microwave,
the kettle, the T.V., and all the other systems on board.
Aileen, and the kids went ashore to scout around
while the dinner was cooking,
Its not often ( if ever) we were about to have the
christmas dinner in such glorious weather,
16.00 the gang returned to the boat and dinner was
served at 16.30.
Starters:- Prawns and Avacado, with all the
trimmings,
Dinner :- Roast turkey and stuffing, Roast Spuds,
Creamed potatoes,and veg, plus gravey ( as the effort to make bread sauce
failed miserably )
We had christmas music playing all the while, and
then when finished with the food, we exchanged gift's and all that stuff,
Aileen usually looks after all that end of thing's
and does a great job.
Then we had to call all those close family members
at home and wish them all " HAPPY CHRISTMAS "
Later we watched D.V.D's and had an early
night,
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
SATURDAY 26th December 2009
We all got up early to another glorious day in the
sun, the younger models feeling a lot fresher today,
Following a light breckfast and a long swim, we
raised the anchor and set sail for " CANOUAN " an Island approx 24
miles
south of Bequia. Again , this Island was
visited by S. & A around 10 years ago ,when they chartered a 40foot yacht
and did the West Indie's...
( this was the time they thought they were going to
the " British Vergin Island's " ) but the Skipper was never very good at the
geography
so we wound up in the West India's ... A
great trip, but the skip has never been let forget the gaff....
We arrieved approx 2pm , and all went for an
immidiate swim as soon as we dropped anchor. Ohhhhh wonderfull, we
were anchored inside a reef
and the water was a lovely pale blue colour, ( the
kind of thing one sees in the travel mag's )
Later the skipper went ashore for a walk , a feeble
effort at controlling the expanding waste line,
Funny thing,,,,,,, as we get gracefully older, we
have a tendancy to grow " down and out "
All this was followed by more swimming and then
ashore for a "pizza" dinner.in the waterside restaurant, a real tropical
thatched roof structure.
Later ,on our return to the ship, we watched more
d.v.d.'s including " Star Treck" and followed by " the
sentinel"
Bunk zzzzzzzzzzzz actually, sleeping on board
is very poor , as the heat makes for difficult continious sleep,
SUNDAY 27th DECEMBER 2009
Stephen's birthday
Up early, and Stephen & Aileen went to 9am Mass
in the local church.
This will make you laugh, After Mass the first
thing of a long list the priest is about to read out, and say's :- WHO HAS
A BIRTHDAY TODAY
OF COURSE, the Skipper was dispached to the alter
to be sacrificed to the god's . and the choir sang " Happy
Birthday Stephen " wonderfull stuff.
Following Mass we all went for a long walk to the
northern end of the Island in very warm conditions, where we explored some of "
RAFFEL's "
holiday complex, which has its own beautifull Beach
( appearently in the top ten beach's of the world ) its own golf
course and church.
The round trip was 5 miles and on our return to the
marina /beach bar we ( as in the 4 alcholics on board ) had a " PINA
COLADA " each.
Now this was made with a RUM of a difference,
84% alcahol.. It had a kick like a MULE .... yum yum
Following this we set off for " TABAGO CAY's " (
approx 4miles away ) and arrieved at 14.20,
we dropped anchor here in what could only be
described as paradise on earth.
Of course we all went for the constitutional swim
and made arrangments to go ashore later to a beach B.B.Q. of
LOBSTER
This was arranged with Mr Faboulus, A
local black man ,who actually lived in Wexford for a while.
Mr Fabulous (34) more or less set up this Lobster
Beach B.B.Q. thing and we shared drinks and smokes with him at the end of the
night.
Again there was a great " HAPPY BIRTHDAY " sing
song for the skipper during the night , on this deserted , protected beach
island.
just Fabulous.
However , despite all the mosquito spray, we still
got fecken bitten , which made the sleeping all the more difficult
later.
Bunk was welcome after we took the rib out of the
water,,zzzzzzzzzzzz
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