Downtown Bequia
Ile Jeudi
Bob and Lin Griffiths
Fri 26 Apr 2013 13:27
|
Thursday 25 and Friday 26 April 2013
The sun reappeared on Thursday morning so we went
ashore for a look around. We found a place that would refill our cooking
gas cylinder but when we discovered they wanted EC$70 (about £17) we gave it a
body swerve. It is EC$35 in St Lucia and the previous record was €20 in
Sardinia but the norm is around €12 -15. We think they are banking on the
holiday charter market who tend to be less price sensitive and usually
desperate.
View from the rickety dinghy dock:-
 Downtown Bequia:-
 We stopped and had a couple of orange juices to
cool off. The view from the balcony:-
 Lin (on the left) had a look at this
'boutique' . She wasn't in there long:-
 A very Caribbean house:-
 We went on to 'De Bistro' and had rotis for
lunch. Not a patch on the rotis from Chefette in Barbados but still very
nice. View from De Bistro:-
 We returned to the boat in the afternoon and as it
was hot we both had a swim. The water was
above freezing (ie 28 deg C) so even Lin jumped in:-
 Soon after the heavens opened up. Thank
heavens we had finished swimming or we would have got wet!
When we went to bed that night we discovered that
one portlight was not tightly shut and the rain had poured on to the mattress
for 3 hours. This was soaking but 'fortunately' it was only wet on my
side so I made a nest of cushions in the saloon for a bed, there being still too
much rain to sleep in the cockpit.
Our plans to leave the next day were put on hold as
we lifted the mattresses up on deck to dry in the sun. We called up
'Daffodil' on the VHF and they sent one of their yellow boats out to
collect some laundry, which included the wet bedding. It is a good service
and the laundry was returned in late afternoon and was done
well.
|