Spiny Norman

Graptolite's Sailing Log
Martyn Pickup & Heike Richter
Fri 28 Dec 2007 03:04
12:56.54N 061:18.63W

27th Dec

Back to the island of Bequia (pronounced 'Beckway', apparently) and this
time to the harbour of Port Elizabeth. Our cruising permit expired today and
we wanted to make sure we are legal to stay longer (we are). Nice harbour
with lots of yachts on mooring buoys.

We bought a crate of St Vincent beer called 'Hairoun' from one boat boy then
haggled for some spiny lobsters from another and ended up with three huge
ones weighing nearly four pounds each. Some of you will remember boiling up
three lobsters at a time in a big pan on the deck of Graptolite a couple of
years back on the Hamble River. These brutes had to be folded up just to
cook one at a time. Two of them were more than enough for the four of us.
Spiny Norman survived as he is the biggest and baddest and is now living in
a lobster pot hung over the side of the boat. Nobody wants to mess with
Norman.

M