Grenada in the rain
Roysterer
Peter & Penny Hesleden
Thu 26 Dec 2013 14:00
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First mate here. Well, I'm sure Grenada is a beautiful island and when it stops raining we'll find out. We had a very low key Christmas Day on Roysterer, woken up at 5.00 by thunder and lightning that went on for 2 hours - I've never seen non-stop lightning before. In fact there were flashes the evening before, which I thought were some kind of Christmas celebrations but probably were also lightning. It rained torrentially all day, so no Christmas drinks in the cockpit for us. We had decided to have Christmas dinner aboard and at the last minute on Christmas Eve found a butterball turkey breast in a supermarket freezer, which I cooked in the Remoska with potatoes - the Remoska does the best potatoes ever. A bit of veg and gravy and that was it, not even any pudding. It was very enjoyable in a surreal way, and we are quite smug today about not having consumed thousands of calories. However it's still raining after a tantalising glimpse of blue sky first thing, but the forecast is better. We did meet Clive, Caroline and Glenys from an ARC+ boat, Lady Caroline on Christmas Eve and they kindly gave us a lift in St George and we met up for lunch, so not completely Billy No Mates!
The pictures are of a bottle of 5 year aged Madeira we had bought in Madeira, having forgotten all about it, very nice too. Then a new sport, no idea what it's called, where someone is suspended on jets of water. The guy we saw was amazing, going really high up, performing loads of somersaults and then diving in out and out of the water exactly like a dolphin. Then Pete, Chris and Harald after getting our dinghy onto the deck for a wash down - Rodney Bay really is a very dirty marina! Sailing past the Pitons in Saint Lucia, then St Vincent, which really is where Pirates of the Caribbean was filmed (several islands claim it was theirs). Our slimmed down lizard, who may put some weight back on here as there are more flies than before, then the drenched cockpit and looking out of the rain-streaked window on Christmas Day. |
