Grenada
Catacaos
Graham Shaw
Tue 15 Feb 2011 21:38
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I know, I know. No blog since almost forever: what
are we doing with our time? Lindsay's formal complaint has been noted. So
sorry to all you blog-reading folks, promise to make more frequent
updates.
We last left off going to PSV (Petit St.Vincent,
the southernmost of the Grenadines), meeting up with Rusee de Jersey, which
was a lovely catch up. We had been hoping to go back up after picking
up our next guest. We also took a wander on Petite Martinque (one of the
islands of Grenada), which has a unusual amount of cemetries, and lots of
goats and sheep. It was quite a unusual place, quite desolate. But
perculiarly has some of the cheapest diesel in the West Indies.
After spending a lovely evening with Dominique and
Yves, catching up with their travels, we had a fab sail down, the best this season so far. The wind
was aft of the the beam, so for a change we were not banging into
the sea, and we made it down to Prickly Bay in Grenada at good speed,
just in time for Happy Hour at De Big Fish, and see the lovely Kim and Rikky.
And yes, a number of cold Caribs.
Well it is lovely to be back here, we have a number
of jobs to do before we take our next hop down to Bonaire, but first we had Kim
for two weeks (Guernsey Kim, not Big Fish Kim). I knew I had to get in training,
but I clearly underestimated how much training I needed. I feel the last
two weeks have passed in a blur of drinking and partying, but it has been great
fun. We have made the most of the live entainment in Prickly
Bay, which included music as well as other boat antics. Our mornings
usually consisted of trying not to catch sight of our neighbour, who strutted
around his boat naked all of the time, therefore was known as the naked
man. It just so happened one Friday night he ended up next to us at the
bar, of course I could not contain myself to confirm he was the naked man, so a
drop of his shorts exposing his bum confirmed all, and yes he did move the next
morning, clearly thinking we are all perverts on our boat.
Prickly Bay is really one big family, where
everyone knows everyone, and generally after a few weeks here, you are classed
as a local to the Bay, as much as everyone else is. We have made some new
friends, and met up with some old, and it has been lovely catching up with
everyone.
Lucas has had a ball playing with lots of
children from other boats, he always seems the youngest but not necessarly
the smallest, I feel he will find it hard leaving here.
We were going to take Kim back up to Tobago Cays,
but the wind was just not co-operating, so we decided to stay put. Kim was
a big hit in the anchorage, specially with all the men, not so much with their
wives and girlfriends though. One man, an artist, painted her a
picture of his travels which was beautiful. Clearly you can see from the
number of pictures most of the time has been spent in bars. Many scrapes
and bruises are still unexplained, but I think the best one is Rikky
from the Big Fish having broken a rib. Maybe falling off the bar??? No one
has a picture of it.
The two weeks went fast, and although it
was a drunken haze, it was lovely having Kim to stay. We shall miss her
lots. Now time to detox and a few early nights. Well until the next happy
hour?
It's now time to get fixing the boat up. Gray
re-did the bathrooms, with wooden tops and new taps which are lovely, and
he now just needs to fix the overheating problem on the starboard engine.
We are waiting for parts for this at the moment. Ordered 3 weeks ago
with a promise of a three to seven day delivery. This is the Caribbean
after all - no rush man!!!!!! Hopefully this will all be sorted
shortly, then up and away we go. We'll give the boat a good clean, as we
have been here too long, and my cleaning duties on the underside of the boat
have been very neglected. I feel the time we have stayed in Grenada waiting for
parts will take it's toll on the amount of barnacles, etc.
It's a short blog this time, and I'm
sure no-one wants to hear of our drunken nights. Well, apart from one.
Gray was completely blasted on three rum punches. Be very careful of the
rum punches in De Big Fish. He was very funny, and had to be helped home,
after chatting up all the women in the bar (I had to go and appoligise the next
day), decided to take a mid night dip, Kim was worried he was going to drown him
self so went it also to make sure he was alright. Payback time the next
day, and funnily enough he has not had one since!!!
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