" A LADY" TRIP AROUND THE WORLD ( presently in Mustique, Caribbean )
A Lady
Stephen Hyde
Fri 1 Jan 2010 18:00
THURSDAY 31st December
2009 New Years Eve
The day began bright and early in P.S V. , having
had an early night last night.
The skipper sent some messages and the blog, while
the rest went for a constitutional swim.
10.30 We lifted anchor and sailed out of
P.S.V. and travelled the short couple of miles to " PALM ISLAND"
This is another american owned private resort
and also very expensive and exclusive. These
resorts are all pritty much the same, a bit like the Irish owned SANDY LANE in
Barbados.
We stopped at PALM ISLAND for a few hours while the
gang went ashore to survey the place and have another swim.
12.30 We sailed out of Palm Island and headed
to MUSTIQUE , where we had dinner booked for tonight, A special new year dinner
packege
in the FIREFLY restaurant,, The passage
was bumpy as the wind was on the nose and blowing 30knots
16.00 we arrieved in Mustique and spent some time
looking for a spot to anchor as the place was jammed with Boats of all
descriptions,
At least 25% were super yachts, and they looked
splendid. ( as we did ourselves )
We eventually had to anchor in 25m of water, using
70m of chain. and settled down nicely after a while.
19.00 We all went ashore in the rib and headed up
to the FIREFLY, ( a place S. & A. visited 10 years ago ) where we met the
owner,
an english man who was there all those years ago..
very plesent guy, Aileen could remember that his father worked in the british
diplomatic
core, and he spent a lot of his time abroad as a
child,
The restaurant overlooked the bay and all the
yachts , most of which had spreader and mast lights on , and the whole thing
looked spectacular.
23.00 we went to the waterside bar to join the
celebrations for the NEW YEAR , they had a great band and everyone for
miles around must have been there, fantastic, we even met other irish people, (
they just get everywhere )
00.00 We said good bye to a shit 2009 and
welcomed in a possible better 2010. lots of noise and some fireworks to
boot.
Late night ,,
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