Sue & Richard visit - Part 2

Eowyn
Thu 24 May 2012 23:37
 
 
Éowyn is still at anchor in Prickly Bay Grenada in position  12:00.025 N 61:45.637W
 
I am still rather behind in updating this blog, but we have been rather busy for the last few days.
 
After our Friday night storm  in Tobago Cays, we headed off to Mayreau and walked up the hill to the delightful Catholic Church where a year before, friends Jim & Maggie from Ocean Jasper were wed. Of course we made the obligatory stop at Robert Righteous the entertaining Rastafarian where Sue continued her sampling of Caribbean rum punches - this time it was a real corker made with firewater.
 
After this brief stop, I motored to Clifton for a brief stop to clear out and then on to Chatham Bay where we dined in some style at Aqua, the relatively new restaurant on the shore.
 
An early start on Saturday gave us a perfect sail with the wind at 20 knots just abaft the beam arriving in Prickly Bay before Customs closed. We  had a few days to show Richard & Sue the Island starting with a visit to St George, the capital. For us, the main aim was to track down Devon Philip. We have known Devon for some 10 years  been told that he had been drowned in a boating accident. Fortunately, this was not the case and after some enquiry, we found Devon very much alive and well and pleased to see us.
 
On Sunday we motored to Hog Island for lunch, but ended up having a delightful meal at Le Phare Bleu where Dieter Burkhalter & Kay George were giving a jazz concert for Mother's day (the American one!)
 
 
 
 
We booked Rock Charles for an Island tour on Wednesday and we were treated to his expert history knowledge and an insight to his religion of "12 tribe Rasta" The night before we had eaten at The Little Dipper, a tiny local restaurant run by Rock's wife Joan. Here are some of the sights of the tour, Grand Etang rainforest complete with monkeys.
   
 
 
Thursday was the last day for our visitors and after our farewells we made our way back to Prickly Bay to settle down to 2 weeks scuba diving with Scubatech. Well I am only a week behind now and will try to remedy that as soon as possible