Union Island

Jackamy
Paul & Derry Harper
Mon 18 Jan 2010 13:20

12:35.747N  61;24.882W  

 

Monday 18th Jan

 

Union Island

 

 

We had a 40 minute sail to Union Island, the last of the Grenadine Islands. St. Vincent and the Grenadines make up one country and this is where we check out. Clifton Harbour,  is protected by ''Newlands Reef', it also has a small reef in the center of the harbour called 'Roundabout Reef'. After negotiating both reefs we dropped our anchor mid morning then went ashore, where we met up with the Jeremy's and Edith at The Anchorage Yacht Club , we hadn't seen them since the beginning of December so it was good to catch up over a few beers!

 

Later in the afternoon whilst still ashore a call came through on the VHF, from Roundabout to say they had hit 'Roundabout Reef' and had been boarded by a dozen boat boys, who had tied their boats to them and were pulling them in the wrong direction and further onto the reef. Paul and Mark ran back to the dinghy and raced over to help them along with Jeremy. Paul grabbed a snorkel and mask and dived under the boat to make sure the boat was being pulled in the right direction whilst Mark negotiated with one of the boat boys who were by now all demanding rescue money, even though they had made matters worse. David finally agreed on a of figure of $ 100 EC  each, for 13 boat boys. When they were safely secured  to a mooring buoy Pete dived under the boat luckily there was no damage.

 

On Tuesday we walked to the small airport where customs and immigration are based and checked out, we then walked into town to do some provisioning. There was a small market area of brightly coloured stalls where a good selection of fruit and vegetables were on offer and a small deli where we could stock up on a few essentials. Early tomorrow we leave for Bonaire.

 

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Union Island surrounded by reef

 

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The high street where we did our provisioning

 

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Fruit and Veg stalls

 

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