Cold turkey on Oriole
Oriole
Sat 17 Feb 2007 20:08
Rodney Bay, St Lucia. 14:04.58N
60:56.95W
On another stunning Caribbean day we
close reached to Dominica from the Saintes with the wind around 20 knots in
company with AlShaheen, a sister ship to Troubadour, although shorter, and 1
foot on the waterline longer than Oriole. No! we were not racing of
course, but by the time we overtook AlShaheen who had started off before us we
had declared it an honourable dead heat, if you can make sense of that.
Line honours?
We took a tour, as we had with Fran
and Erik, with John and Jenny (AlShaheen) and Jane to the Carib Settlement and
some other fascinating sites, returning via to Chaudiere Pool for an
invigorating freshwater swim and a visit to the rain forest to attempt to see
one of the two species of rare and endangered indiginous parrots. We
did eventually see two in the late evening as they emerged from the rain forest
to feed on the grapefruit trees.
Bathing beauties cooling off at the
Chaudiere Pool.
Jane and Jenny did the obligatory
trip up the Indian River featured in Pirates of the Caribbean 2. Jane
was obviously quite a hit with Martin, their guide.
Me Jane!
Sadly for Jane's last few days John
went into a decline with a really bad throat rendering him almost unable to eat
and drink. For three days he drank no coffee or diet coke, his two
favourite drinks, and hardly eat a thing. But as his throat
began to improve he still felt lousy with severe headache, when we
all simultaneously diagnosed caffeine deficiency. Within 20
minutes of drinking a can of coke his head cleared, the headache went and he
felt normal again, albeit still with a sore thoat. So for all you caffeine
addicts out there do not stop drinking tea, coffee and coke or you will also go
cold turkey.
Even more sadly Jane left us today
from St Lucia to fly back to Antigua for her flight back to the UK. We
have booked her for another trip on Oriole.