A Rest Day
Beez Neez now Chy Whella
Big Bear and Pepe Millard
Thu 16 Apr 2009 22:18
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A Day of
Rest
After four days exploring by car and
a day of chores we found a little bit of beach at the entrance to the
marina.
  Time for Bear to
wash his planes and me to have a swim.
 Over to our far left, it is nice to
see container ships coming and going - showing the
general strike is over. Our electric is now steady, we had days of a separate
electricians strike, and more pleasing to me is the postal workers strike ended
and they went back to work after the Easter break.
     To our left Bear saw what he hoped was
a yacht grounded on purpose to have her bottom scrubbed, on closer inspection
she is a sad wreck, a sand spit has formed behind
her.
  More surprising was this very old and
rusty steel girl we saw on the way to see the wreck. Clearly this one is lived aboard as you can see by the shopping for
fresh bottled water.
 Opposite we could see the anchorage
with the town behind it. A cruise ship is in again showing things are getting
back to normal. The supermarket shelves are now full, a big change from last
week. If you had gone on to wikitravel last week there was a warning not to come
to Guadeloupe at all. So hopefully now we can see the people as they really are
- not the dissatisfied, unhappy people of late.
ALL IN ALL a nice day
off.
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