Trip Update - 6th January 2009 Canouan, Grenadines
Position: 12:42:41N
61:19:71W This is sailing at it’s best. We were underway (finally!!) at 1100,
and ran down out of Canouan is pretty-much entirely a
Raffles resort, with a golf course and various posh stuff. However, you’d hardly notice when you
sail past for all you really see is lush greenery and white sandy beaches. We decided to stop here, just
because it looked nice, and as we entered the shallower water, the sea became
this magical fluorescent turquoise colour.
Anything less than 10 metres and you can see the
bottom. Turquoise seas off
Canouan We anchored in At one point, Jemima lost one of her
pink flippers, so I took a couple of transits to pinpoint its rough position,
went and got my snorkel and flippers, anchored the dinghy and did a search
pattern until I found it. I was
quite pleased with myself until later that evening, a few cocktails worse for
wear, I threw her flippers into the dinghy from the jetty, and one bounced out,
never to be seen again… durr. John and The Brimble crew came back to our
boat to show us how to make “Ti Punch”, a mix of white rum and sugar syrup with
plenty of lime. That finished us
off nicely! We slept badly as the
wind screamed through the anchorage and we sheared around with the anchor
snubbing line snubbing away. Cocktails on the beach,
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