Bequia at last
Moonbeam
David and Lynn Wilkie
Tue 4 Jan 2011 18:42
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13.00.470N
061.14.000W
Admiralty Bay Bequia
Apologies for the lack of blogs! We have been
tired, busy and devoid of wifi!
We finally arrived in Bequia at about 16.30 local
time on Friday New Year's eve. Paul & Janie had arranged a mooring for us in
a packed harbour and met us with a welcome bag of fresh fruit; obviously
expecting us all to be suffering from scurvy! Champagne aboard Moonbeam and
after a tidy up it was across to "Shian" for dinner where your scribe (and
others) more or less fell asleep. We all got soaked to the skin returning to
Moonbeam but all managed to be awake for the excellent firework display at
midnight.
Sunday was a slow day but we went ashore for a
wander about and were greeted "Happy New Year" by several Bequians in various
stages of sobriety(or otherwise) . One on hearing that we were from
Scotland said he had some coal -- charcoal -- for first-footing us!
We took a taxi (pick-up truck!) around part of the
island and generally chilled out looking at the ever changing scene and eat out
in a couple of the typical Bequian restaurants.
Caught up with various friends on other yachts and
had 'Daffodil' collect and return our laundry.
Bequia has always been the target so it was great
to have succeeded with another stage of the trip and Moonbeam's fourth
transatlantic crossing. The topsides are encrusted with salt and the stern
sections were encrusted with goose barnacles but apart from that she is in great
condition.
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