Day 21 Mileage 127 miles
– 2.0 hours motoring
Well and yet again well – it is b****
hot here and we do not know how to keep ourselves cool. As you can gather
from the mileage the wind has dropped somewhat although we had a very gentle
sail through the night and we all slept well – not at the same time. We
are now 105 miles from Prickly
Bay and we are trying to
time our arrival for mid-morning tomorrow, Friday. First of all we have to fly
a “Q” flag – yellow, to indicate that we have arrived from elsewhere
and might have yellow fever! I then have to take the ship’s documents
passports etc and present them to Customs and Immigration at Prickly Bay,
being duly polite and respectful. That being done we can go to the next bay –
True Blue Bay where we have a berth reserved. In reality there is no distance
by road between these points but it would be too easy just to walk to the
officials. Only one possible snag is that it is not clear whether we can berth
alongside in Prickly
Bay or whether we have to
anchor and get out the dinghy.
Nothing much has happened today –
nothing. We have just had lunch and are festering around. Last night we saw the
loom of the lights on Barbados
which was about 40 miles north of our course. The stars were fantastic last
night – it is strange to see the Plough rise out of the horizon and hang
upside down. Polaris is, of course, very low in the sky.
We are now dreaming about food and drink
tomorrow evening or even lunchtime. Everything, apart from the dinghy, is ready
for our arrival.
So nearly there
Roger and Peters(3)