Wallilabou Bay
Graptolite's Sailing Log
Martyn Pickup & Heike Richter
Mon 24 Dec 2007 22:54
Christmas Eve.
Cleared Customs and Immigration in Soufiere, St Lucia in the morning and
then sent Tom for a swim to the beach to take the long line off the palm
tree. We then set a course south with the Pitons mountains falling away
behind us.
By late afternoon we arrived at the equally mountainous island of St Vincent
and pulled into the tiny Wallilabou Bay to check in with the St Vincent
authorities. All the buildings looked strangely familiar and our boat boy
told us it was the film set for 'Pirates of the Caribbean'. It's a little
bit decayed now but still recognisable as the dock Captain Jack Sparrow
stepped ashore from the top of his mast.
Serious toilet trauma was narrowly avoided this evening when a flying fish
swooped in through the forward heads portlight. Fortunately no one was busy.
A Merry Christmas to all our readers. If you didn't get a card from me as
usual then you are not alone. Due to ineptitude, sloth and being nowhere
near post-boxes, I didn't manage to send any out this year. Not even the
electronic ones. I'm assuming nobody sent me one either except for my Uncle
Reg and Auntie Nora who managed to get a card to Rodney Bay Marina before we
left telling me I now own part of a cow in Africa. Well done.
Best wishes to all.
from Martyn
(and Tom, Ian & Liz)