Brewers Bay

Serafina
Rob & Sarah Bell
Thu 10 Apr 2014 03:06

Sun, Mon Tuesday & Wed – 6th, 7th, 8th & 9th April

 

Rather lost track of the days here as we have enjoyed the peace and quiet of this lovely bay.  Well actually it isn’t quiet but you do get used to the noise!  On Sunday some kind local set up a huge set of speakers on the beach and pumped out their music pretty much all day which was more monotonous than horrid.  This was a distraction from the aircraft taking off and landing and we are now pretty good at recognising the difference between Pratt & Witney jet engines from  Rolls Royce ones from the comfort of our own floating home.  But is remarkable how quickly you become used to these noises and now after several days we barely notice them.  I SAID WE HARDLY NOTICE THEM.

 

On Tuesday Devin and Liz from Moosetracks can over to say ‘hi’.  They already knew who we were from hearing us on the Magellan SSB radio net some mornings and we also have a number of friends in common from all over, so after introducing themselves they stayed for a chat and on Wednesday we spent the afternoon on their boat playing Mexican Train – which they comprehensively beat us at which was not very friendly!  They had been moored behind us for a day before they realised who we were and we could not see their boat name as it is on their transom.

 

The wifi here is very good and free which is a real bonus.  But by Wednesday there were a few more boats in the anchorage and so the speed of the service did fall right away.

 

We have stayed here primarily to sit out some stronger winds and swells that have passed through this area and there seemed no point heading over to Culebra (Spanish Virgin Islands) until it was a bit quieter.  This bay is very flat and the beach is quite stunning and the sea  is full of fish of all sizes.  In fact it is a bit like living in an episode of The Blue Planet as each group of fish prey on the next ones down the food chain with the water frequently erupting in a boiling mass of frenzied fish who are feeding on shoals of smaller ones.  This was capped spectacularly on Tuesday afternoon when a pod of a dozen or so dolphins swam into the bay and it was really educational to watch them hunt as a single pack, deliberately spreading out and carefully herding their prey into the shallows alongside the runway and beside Serafina before then feeding on the helpless trapped mass of fish.

 

The bad news was receiving an email that advised us that we would almost certainly not be loading Serafina onto the ship to take her back to the UK until 20th – 25th May.  There had been the hope that we could do this around 10th May, but such is life.  There are worse places to sit out a few weeks and wait.

 

On Wednesday morning we took the dinghy over to a dive site at the entrance to the bay for a bit of snorkelling and picked up the buoy there, but sadly the water was pretty cloudy and there was little of interest there at all which was both surprising and a shame given that the main beach is so beautiful and the water a fabulous turquoise blue as well as being crystal clear.