'Dingy Diving'
Blue Beyond , The adventure begins.
Mark and Maxine Frost
Mon 9 Mar 2009 18:14
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"13:00.7N ,61:15.10W"
Well as you can see we have actually moved on to
another island, we are now in Bequia , a beatiful island south of St Vincent ,
we didn't stop in St Vincent as there are still Pirates . we had a lovely trip
here really good sailing although crossing the St Vincent straits was a little
bouncy , we entered the bay and anchored quite nicely off the beach , lots of
yachts here . We had a little wander ashore and it is really pretty , we visited
the museum and how funny was that, it was a small room with some model s and
photos , we had to pay about £6 to get in , but a great guy with a pointer
showed us each photo and read us the script underneath, he couldn't answer any
of our questions but he was a model boat maker and some of the boats there were
ones he had made, they were exquisite, he told us he had met the queen in1985 ,
it was all very charming , without his guidance we would have been in and out in
30 seconds !
The n ext day we went ashore again for some
shopping and to take the rubbish , we met up with Saskia , Simon and Jenny who
we did the ARC with and they invited us over to the boat for a coffee , it
wa great to catch up with them and they gave us all the imformation about where
to go and what to do ( the island is only 7 miles square , so not a lot!)we left
them with arrangments to meet for happy hour in Jacks Bar , as we headed out
into the channel , doing a fair speed the boat hit something under the water or
caught a rope , we are not sure which brought the dingy to an immdediate stop ,
this swung the dingy around and the nose dived into the water and nearly tipped
over , it definately tipped me over !!! I was now hanging on with my feet in the
air and my head under water, scared in case the engine was still running , I was
then swept completely under the dingy , when I came up spluttering , I managed
to hang on to the side of the dingy Mark had managed to stay in the dingy ( of
course ) but now we were floating in the channel with a ferry coming towards us
and I had to get back in the dingy , not easy , but through absolute fear of
sharks ( always) and the ferry I scrambled in , I had started the day in a
pretty dress and my new oakley sunglasses , now I was a bedraggled mess and my
glasses had been swept off , we started the engine and got back to the boat , we
still don't know what happened as we did come to a violent stop, but we
survived.
We had Saskia and Pelican some great American guys
over for dinner last night and two local lads Tony and Yello( don't
know why he is called that) as we had had such a rock and rolley night on
the anchor that we hadn't been able to sleep so these guys pulled some string
and brought us right into the bay on a mooring bouy, we had a great night
.
Now the american know how to do breakfast, we we
guests on Pelican , Bill and Cathy and we started off with bloody Mary's
and then burriitos and then iced coffee , bit of a shock to learn the
marys had vodka in them and it was only 10am .........., but hey ho , it is all
going well.........
 taken
15 minutes before I was tossed out of the dingy , were those glasses just the
best? Cathy , Jenny and me  Mark , Simon , Tony , Bill and Yello. |