Talulah's Log - Boat Yard and going home
Talulah's Web Diary
Paul & Anette Morris
Tue 16 Jan 2007 23:36
Well
the boat is ashore in Grenada right now, in a (hopefully) well protected boat
yard. It got hauled out and bottom scrubbed on the
12th. Anette and I scrubbed the decks, I changed the
sacrificial anode that was just hanging loosely there, and did other shore based
jobs. We met some good people and were impressed by the efficiency
of the boat yard.
It's
hot - very hot and humid. The boat is on dry land about 200 metres
from the sea, and surrounded by jungle and mosquitoes, which have a party every
night, dining on us. We have a party every morning -
scratching. It rains every hour. Hot tropical
rain. It's great, and it's also annoying - Anette can't get
her washing dry. But the boat yard is great - friendly people, good
reggae and a cool bar. We feel at home oddly
enough.
We
should stay. But we have tickets on an airplane to Plymouth, via
Barbados, St Lucia and Gatwick. Round-about way we know, but for
various reasons this is happening.
Tonight I will wear socks, shoes and long trousers
for the first time in 2 months - horrible!
We
are both sad.
We
have return tickets for early April, but we've a feeling that we may be back on
the boat before
then...............................