Errr...Still in Prickly Bay
Sarah Grace goes to sea
Chris Yerbury and Sophy White
Mon 6 Feb 2006 13:55
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February 6th, Prickly Bay,
Grenada
We have been here for a
while now, something like ten days or so, and have settled into life in a marine
village. Every morning there is school, apart from Sunday, and then after
lunch it is swimming, at the True Blue Resort Pool, with about a dozen
kids.
General networking takes
place at happy hour around the beach bar. This is a
very important part of the daily routine. To quote Leon from
Regina: 'I have had a very busy day today, I have ordered an oil filter
on-line'.
We are definitely getting
into the Caribbean way of doing things, which seems to operate in Spain and
Portugal as well, and goes along the lines of 'Don't do today what you can put
off until tomorrow', and anything that intereferes with the serious business of
drinking rum punch definitely needs doing tomorrow.
Even Chris has taken to
Pina Coladas in a big way.
 Here is a picture of some
machinery in the rum factory, that had been installed in the early seventeen
hundreds, and was still working daily. Absolutely amazing. British
engineering of course!
 This is Mimi looking into a
bubbling tank of molasses and yeast and rum.
And here is a picture of Mimi and
Mary at the solar powered chocolate factory.
 Lastly, Mimi by the
waterfall stream. We had a Dengue fever panic as I thought that there were
loads of black and white stripey Dengue fever mosquitoes there, but they were
tiny flies.
 On the subject of creepy
crawlies:
We were all swimming at
dusk off the end of the boat, and I was worrying about sharks, when I let
out a yell as I had been stung by a jelly fish, and rather than swim to the back
of the boat through the jelly fish, we tried to climb up the anchor chain.
Chris rescued us in Bob. I have a stung ankle and hand, which three days
on is still annoying.
We are all taking brewers
yeast to try and repel the mosquitoes. This is meant to stop them biting,
and certainly in the case of Otti, seems to be working.
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