Happy New Year
Karma Daze
Chris and Penny Manley
Tue 31 Dec 2013 14:12
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Back in Bequia for the new year celebrations
after spending three days mixing with the rich and famous on Mustique.
Well we would have been but visiting yachts’ crew are restricted to Britannia
bay and the village and are not allowed to go and gawp at the rich
visitors.
We had a reasonable sail across to Mustique and
a better one back. The wind was gusting to 25 knots and the open sea
between Bequia and Mustique a bit lumpy but it is only a short distance so not
too bad.
The anchorage in Britannia bay has about 30
buoys provided by the company that owns the island. The charge is 200 EC$
(about £50) for one night but then you can stay for 2 more consecutive nights
included in this price. We stayed 3 nights the plan being to go to a posh
restaurant for Penny’s birthday. We had wanted to go “The Cotton House”
but they were fully booked, so we went to “The Firefly” instead. The
restaurant is at the top of a hill over looking the bay, but they will come and
fetch guests from the waterside. We had a very nice if expensive meal, and
a reasonable intake of alcohol. This may explain why we slept better this
third night. The anchorage is exposed to northerly swells which can make
it very rolly. We had been woken on each of the 2 previous nights at about
03.00 with the boat rocking wildly from side to side. This lasted for
about 2 hours and then calmed down to a more gentle rock. A similar thing
happened mid-afternoon. Many boats only stayed only one night as wherever
boats anchored or picked up buoys in the bay was subject to the
swell.
So it is nice to be back in Bequia just bobbing
around and not having to stow everything away. We are waiting for
“Daffodil” to bring us some water, they have already collected our
laundry. Daffodil Marine Services is a local company that collects and
delivers laundry to and from your boat, and can supply diesel and water.
They seem to be doing quite a trade with all the boats that are in here for the
New Year.
So Happy and Prosperous New Year to you
all. Next blog in 2014. |