Barbados - The Launch of the Blue Meanie and Lobster Alive!!
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John & Jane Craven
Sun 6 Mar 2011 23:40
As we are anchored in Carlisle Bay, it is the perfect place to canoe in on our new inflatable canoe, affectionately known as the 'Blue Meanie' as you have to beach your dinghy and there is a lot of surge - so the first job was to inflate the canoe.
Once the boat was blown up and launched we decided to forget about cleaning the boat and take the Blue Meanie for an inaugural paddle to the beach to book our lunch at the local lobster restaurant.Paddling was quite easy and we managed to make quite a decent job of it, getting to the beach in no time.
In the guide to Barbados, we had read about a beach restaurant which has a huge walk-in lobster tank and live jazz on a Sunday afternoon so, as it is situated about 200 metres from where we are moored, it seemed too good to miss. The lobster all come from the Grenadines and some were absolutely huge - the largest they have in their tank is 9lbs - he is not for sale though as he is very old. When you order, the guy goes into the tank, with his protective shoes and gloves, pluck one out and weighs it - it doesn't get much fresher than that. Also, the jazz band were excellent and we had such a good lunch that if we are still here next weekend we will go again. This will depend on the outcome of our USA visa applications, and how they take to process.