Cruising the Grenadines. 12:27.3N 61:29.2W
MALARKEY
Jo & Trevor Bush
Sat 3 Feb 2007 20:58
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Its been a while since our last blog - will try
harder promise!
Since leaving Barbados we slowly sailed south
through the Grenadines.
Bequia (pronounced Beek way) was our first port of
call. Port Elizabeth was gorgeous. Pastel coloured buildings in a lush green
back drop with very friendly & very 'relaxed' people.
  We felt right at home here and stayed longer than
planned. There was a music festival going on during our stay and all kinds of
bands played, from a famous rock band from Sweden (no not a funky ABBA) to a
local steel drum band. None of the bands were being paid to perform and as a
result it was very laid back, with a great atmosphere and good fun was
had by all. The Swedish band had all their equipment go astray on a flight mix
up but the locals scrounged up some equipment and nobody was any the wiser. We
met some good people here and had some great parties. Hopefully we will get
to see them again soon.
From Bequia we moved on to Mayreau and the Tobago
Cays. These places were typical picture postcard Caribbean
anchorages.
  You know, white sands, palm trees, beach huts,
drunken bums needing a palm tree to lean against, that sort of
thing.
We had some great experiences including swimming
with giant turtles and coming face to face with a huge porcupine fish in a cave.
His head was the size of a football with big googly eyes. It didnt seem fased at
all and was quite happy for us to pull stupid faces and blowing bubbles at it.
We guessed it was his home and wasnt moving for anyone and besides he had
probably seen it all before. He was a very cool Caribbean Porcupine
fish.
The Cays are a must do destination. It is a bazaar
experience being behind a reef or a low lying beech, anchored in
calm azure blue waters protected from the Atlantic Ocean swell. All
you hear is the roar of the waves hitting the windward beaches but only feel the
cooling trade winds. Feeling jealous? well you should be cos it was great and we
are definately going to return.
We then moved onto Union Island and checked out of
the St Vincent Grenadines and entered into the Granada Grenadines (Tyrell Bay,
Carriacou).
   The view from our cockpit is the 'Happy Island
Bar'. It is built on a bed of Conch shells, behind the reef and probably
gets washed away every season when a hurricane comes through. It will probably
look completely different when we come back through next season. Adonde (Neil
& Tracy) has been with us for the last few weeks and here is evidence that
their catamaran does sail pretty quick when the wind blows and now that it
is lighter having eaten most of the food they loaded on for their
Trans-Atlantic. (Neil is strutting his funky stuff specially for
the photo and Tracy is hiding a bad hair day).
We will stay here for a few days and our next stop
will be Grenada and then on to Trinidad for the carnival. Should have some wild
photos from the carnival.
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