After 3 days of scuba-diving at Indian Creek Point and Sunken Rock the
weather deteriorated with higher Easterly winds, squalls and a disturbed
sea-state, so we weighed anchor on Monday 4th and headed south towards Old
Road Bluff Point. Just behind this Point we poked Barada's bow into
Carlisle Bay and found it quite calm (tho still windy) so anchored off the
palm-tree fringed beach. An expensive resort of the same name occupies half
of the bay - to the western end in contrast is the Antiguan village of Old
Road with its wooden houses wedged up on breezeblocks. We stopped in a
store for a snack and purchased some beers in another, the locals are always
friendly and pleased to chat as were a crowd of youngsters playing footbal
on the beach as we launched Tinker to take us back to Barada in the Bay.
Today we ventured out to sea to do a reccy of Cades Reef a mile offshore, a
good snorkelling and dive site - tho windy there wasn't too much swell. A
double reef runs parallel to the shore, we went past on the seaward side but
could see diveboats and tourist trip Cats between the two reefs...but these
were skippered by local people with 'the knowledge'. We decided that we
would need to book a days diving with www.indigo-divers.com in Jolly
Harbour, so made our way in that direction and anchored at 1645 Antigua-time
(20.45 UTC). Tomorrow we will Tinker ashore and make our way in to the
Marina and shops as we need to stockup with fresh stores.
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