Cariacou
Sarah Grace goes to sea
Chris Yerbury and Sophy White
Sun 22 Jan 2006 02:08
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Carriacou Island, 21st
January 2006
We've sailed another ten
miles south from Union Island. On the way to Carriacou Island we passed
Palm Island, Sandy Island and a few other islets. We kept passing
shivering multitudes of tiny silver fish shimmering out of the water being hotly
pursued by tuna. 'Look Mum!! Flying tuna!' shouts Otti. Despite
having our best octopus lure trailing, we didn't get a bite.
We checked into Carriacou
customs at lunch and ate in a tin shack snack bar, which was the best meal we
have had this side of the Atlantic. We are now officially in
Grenada.
We tried to buy some fresh
food, and could only find some bananas and grapefruits being sold by the
side of the road. I've had a gutful of dasheen and eddos for the time
being.
We are now anchored in
Tyrell bay. American boats make it their business to interrogate you on
the size of your tackle if you anchor near them. They leap into their
tenders and motor over, saying,'How big is it? (your anchor) and how much scope do you have?'
Luckily ours is bigger than most, and that usually puts a sock in it so to
speak. The magic answer is,'55lbs and 30metres', when anchored in 4m
depth, which is the equivalent of using an articulated lorry to pick up
your Sunday paper.
We are anchored next to
Carpe Diem, who keeps lecturing us. He shakes his head sadly when he
sees the dinghy lock, and says 'That is not enough'. He is security mad,
and does not sail with his navigation lights on further south in case he is
spotted by pirates. We don't know if this is cunning or
foolish.
We are going over to his
boat now and will doubtless return much wiser and definitely
paranoid.
Ottilie has taken up
outboard driving. Sarah Grace has a sore flank from Otti's first trial run
back from dropping off the laundry today. We missed the back of the
boat and rammed the side. Otherwise she was excellent, as it was her first
try.
 Otti says: 'I look nicer in
real life'. And I did not mean to crash into Sarah Grace when I did.
And my thumb got crunched up and now it is all big. Got squashed
actually. Today I did not do very much school, but played school
games on the computer.
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