Whar de sun gone mun?
Oriole
Sun 30 Nov 2003 14:43
There is a variety of views about what
happened to our weather this week,
but an upper level high trapping moist air beneath it seems to be the most likely explanation for two or three days of wet and squally weather. Our imminent Scottish implant will be reassurred that things are on the mend. We sailed back from Bequia on Monday and spent a couple of days in comparatively deserted Tobago Cays. The snorkling on the Horseshoe Reef with nothing but sea between you and Africa is a strange sensation. Baradel Island, Tobago Cays.
The wind generator has free access to what ever is
going and our batteries were
topped right up. Saline Bay on Mayreau provided us with our first lobster, but the swell creeping into the bay drove us to Chatham Bay on Union Island yesterday. This must be one of the lovliest anchorages in the Caribbean with nearly a mile of pristine sandy beach without a building in sight except for a couple of fishermen's shacks. Yesterday we walked 6 miles over to the main town Clifton starting with a near
vertical goat track out of the bay.
On the way we passed some
fascinating sights. The first was four ladies varying
in age from about 16 to 70 breaking up
stones in a quarry by the roadside with a
variety of back breaking tools. Whether this
was normal commercial activity or
part of the Union Inland penal code we dared not
ask, but we thought the ladies
of Newton Ferrers would prefer their bridge and
flower arranging. The second was
an old man making steel drums. Chris took a
lesson from this well travelled
craftsman who unusually can make drums in all keys from sopranno to base,
and travels worldwide to tune them. When
asked how often a drum needs tuning
he replied "It depends how hard you bang him,
man. If you have de light touch he
will last for ever, but if you bang 'im heavy he
needs tuning tomorrow". It looks like
a suitable craft for Gunsey Lane, perhaps others
might judge! If Andrew T would like
an introduction, it can be arranged.
Diving is taking a back seat for a week or two
while we lick our financial wounds.
At £20 for an accompanied dive, and we have now
done 10 each, it soon mounts up.
But the dive guides have been great and I am sure
we would miss a lot of what they
show us and we do not yet feel ready to dive
independently.
Please keep the emails coming, we would not like to
feel we are out of mind as well
as being out of sight. We cannot however receive
attachments or photographs.
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