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Aurelia
Shirley and Michael Webb-Speight
Mon 8 Jan 2007 23:00
We have just had two lovely days in Charlottesville, and have moved today to Store Bay at the southern end of the island. Tobago is beautiful, forest covered, and golden sand beaches, with excellent tropically snorkeling. Tobago and Trinidad were joined to South America awhile back and geographically are more like S Am than the other Caribbean islands.
One disadvantage of the isolation of Tobago is that we are not receiving Blackberry services with email so we are relying on the iridium address. Email facilities are few and far between and somewhat erratic on whether they are open or not. Island time reins. Also can't get mobile coverage!
Big walk to the top of the hill yesterday, vertical for 2.5 hours and 40 minutes run down! Lots of swimming, snorkeling etc. Hot and humid. Friendly locals all seem to say hi and welcome to their island, and where are we from? One of them was very pleased with how well Mike spoke English!
Nice sail down the coast today and moored before dark.
Off to Chagauramas tomorrow, near Port of Spain, in Trinidad. Hoping to meet up with Essence, and also hoping that Ann has talked her mother into meeting us there too!!!
Hope all well with everyone. Don't panic if you don't hear from us frequently, we are OK, just short of technology!
Much love Shirley and Crew