Escaped to Bequia!

Marita3
Mark & Helen Syrett
Wed 18 Jan 2012 21:32
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Finally yesterday morning the watermaker part was retrieved from customs.  We had spent Sunday at Pigeon Island, a National Trust Fort on top of a hill with a sandy beach and beach cafe at the bottom, where we had lunch without waiting for people to come to the boat as everything stops on Sundays.
Egbert with his nephew Sean completed all the work on Tuesday morning -fantastic - which meant we could check out with customs, a laborious procedure, refuel the boat and anchor in the bay before setting off this morning at 2am for the 80 mile passage to Bequia.
We came down the western side of St Lucia and then across open water to St Vincent - we had a big rough following sea and up to 30 knots of wind, after a period of relative calm in the lee of St Vincent we then crossed to Bequia, where we are on a mooring in Port Elizabeth.  We will go ashore and clear customs etc. tomorrow.