Bequia to Mayreau
Chaser 2
Yvonne Chapman
Wed 14 Mar 2007 22:04
The weather was good so
we upped anchor and left Bequia for Mayreau, before we left Yvonne bought me a
birthday present, spicy hot pepper sauce, (a local brew), the box you can see in
the picture, good stuff as long as you don't get it on the varnish.
Mayreau is only 25 miles
from Bequia, we had a really good comfortable sail, and arrived in positions
12.38.88N 61.23.47W Saltwhistle Bay Mayreau at approx. 14.00hrs.
We took a swim and
snorkel to check the anchor is set correctly, we don't want to drag here. The
photos show the beach in front of us, we are on the leeward side, but as you can
see, we can go ashore and walk across the beach to the windward side of the
Island, about 30 yards.
The bay isn't quite as
good as it appears, or should I say the bay is beautiful as you can see, what
you can't see is the other twenty boats around us, but, this is a tourist area,
so all the charter boats come here for it's beauty, only three of the boats here
are liveaboards.
A boat that anchored near
us in Bequia has just anchored again in front of us, we call him the drag artist
because everytime he anchors, it drags and he falls back on us or some other
poor sod. Now he's right in front of us again, but fortunately there is little
wind, at the moment!
Tomorrow, we'll go ashore
and explore the little village and maybe visit Dennis's Hideaway, a bar
restaurant we visited 16 years ago. At that time it was the only bar, it was the
only anything apart from a few fisherman houses. We'll see tomorrow how things
have changed.
