Bequia, to St Lucia
Talulah's Web Diary
Paul & Anette Morris
Thu 5 Apr 2007 16:21
position "13:51.000N
061:05.000W"
Wednesday 4th April
2007
There have been some serious tropical rain downpours in
the last few days, but they've all been interspersed with bright hot
sunshine. The islands need the water as they have had none for
months in some cases, and the ground is pretty parched on some of the smaller
islands. Sunday saw us just 'stooging' around.
There's nothing much to do on a West Indian island on a Sunday, except perhaps
go for a walk - which we did.
Monday came, and so did more rain. None of
the rain showers has stopped us from sailing however, and following a farewell
drink on the floating bar in Tyrell Bay Carriacou the evening before, we
set sail for Petit Martinique to load diesel, water and booze - all at
extremely cheap prices compared to the rest of the Eastern Caribbean. On
average more than 50 percent cheaper! We spent a very 'rolly' (and
smelly! - burning rubbish ashore) night at anchor before sailing the next
morning to Bequia.
We had a great sail up, and the wind was on the
starboard bow the whole way up. Our max speed for the day was 8.6
knots. The sea got a bit 'lumpy' as we closed on Bequia, and the
skies greyed over, but we made the anchorage in Admiralty Bay with time to spare
before a squall passed through. We heard some friends from
"Steamy Windows", a boat on the Atlantic crossing with us, on the VHF and hailed
them. They were in the same anchorage so as soon as we cleared
Customs and immigration, we went across and said 'hello' and had a
beer.
This morning saw us sailing up to Soufriere in St
Lucia - it was a cracking sail! It started with some good winds until
we sailed in the lee of St Vincent, then more good winds in the open water from
St Vincent to St Lucia. Our max speed was 8.9 knots and the sun shone the
whole way. We noticed some very strange wave phenomena on the way,
with short steep seas now and again for no obvious reason, and then some strong
currents pushing us in various ways as we passed other
islands. Nothing to worry about though, and we're having a
great time, and we celebrated 9,000 miles in Talulah at 1940 hrs UTC
today!
We'll probably stop in Soufriere for a day and then
sail on up to
Martinique.........maybe.......
Anette in Foulies (?) between the
squalls
Brad & Alana, our Canadian hosts on the floating
bar, Carriacou
Under sail with St Vincent on the nose, and we're going
great!