Having Fun in Antigua
Tamarisk
Wed 22 Mar 2006 20:08
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We're in a great spot in Nelson's Dockyard, and
with so many friends around we've been having plenty of fun...
 Tamarisk is at the end of the yachts.
On Alice's birthday Keoma was all dressed up for
the party..
 Children from Blase, Coconut, Wild Alliance,
Aromatic, Regina and Koshlong listen as Juliet reveals the anwers to her
quiz..
 Then it was time for birthday cake...
 Stuck in the mud...
 and some appropriate naval combat.
 The next day we all met on Pigeon Beach which is
round the corner in Falmouth Harbour. This time the Dad's got
involved in the battle...
 This is Tim and Eddie versus Trond and Colin from
Coconut. And as the sun began to set a horse swam by...
  Later that night the grown ups all took to the bar
to see in Juliet's birthday, the children decided to try to work one of the
Dockyard capstans...these were used to pull large ships on their sides to clean
off the barnacles...I'm not sure they'd seen much action since Nelson's
time. Eddie, Pip and Mary choose to encourage the others by dancing
on the top...
 Next day a group of us went on a Wild Alliance
cruise. Jon and Viv kindly invited us to join them on a trip to Cades reef
five miles up the coast. Wild Alliance is a Formosa 51, compared to
Tamarisk she's like a ship, plenty of room for the children on
deck.....
 ...and the ladies in the cockpit.
 It was quite a tricky horse shoe shaped reef to
negotiate, but we anchored right in the middle.
 The dark line is the reef, in the background is
Montserrat, smoking away.
It wasn't long before the children were organising
some halyard swinging.
 Anna takes a dive...
 After lunch we all went snorkelling on the
reef. There were lots of fish, including some baracudas that made
themselves scarce pretty quickly. And by sunset we were back in the
harbour.
 We will stay in Nelson's Dockyard to get some more
jobs done. Our windlass (gets the anchor up) needs a new bearing, and
there are quite a few electrical problems to sort out. The sea and sun
means the sail cover and spray hood are slowly giving way, so we need to get out
the heavy duty sewing kit. Anna seems to have found herself a job helping
in the dockyard cafe and is picking up tips from American tourists. Eddie
has made some new friends in the bay. Our next plan is to head for St
Kitts by the end of next week.
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