Have lots to post next time when we find an internet connection, this is being sent over HAM radio, so I’ll keep it short for now.
Good sun, good food, lots more wind than we need, but we are heading to the Tabago Keys to hide behind the reef and swim with the turtles.
Happy holidays ya’ll
Liming is “hanging out” in the local vernacular and that’s what we are doing. Ashore in hillsbourgh at a sea side cafe listening to the wave an enjoying the post clearance beverage. Just contemplating the meaning of life on island.
Got the watermaker working. Was a bit of a chore to get the pumps primed and find a leak that wasn’t letting the suction work. One of the high pressure pumps isn’t coming on so we’ll be making water slowly. We also found a leak in the port water supply that we’ll tackle a little later. That’s where all our fresh water from the port tank drained into the bilge.
We just chowed down on some jerk chicken and macaroni pie. Perfect light snack for lunch while liming the day away.
We anchored out just south of St. Georges, Grenada and hopped in the dingy and went to the Beach but with the swell rolling in, we would have been soaking wet or the dingy would have been beat against the dock while we walked to the IGA. So that didn’t work out as expected, so we went into St George by dingy. A real nice little town with lots of character for a sea side village. Dropped Wayne and Christine off at a nice dock but basically got almost run over by a local charter outfit coming in to drop off their customers. And since a Cruise ship was in port there were lots of folks around.
I ran the dingy in circles while Christine and Wayne shopped in the smaller store, it had lots of stuff, but not too many fresh veggies. Eventually I got tired and dropped the dingy anchor and motored up to the wall and tied a line to the front and jumped out on a slimy rock, and let the dingy flow back on the anchor, that way it would not crash in to the rocks.
We loaded up on all kinds of stuff, minus the fresh veggies. Couple chicken breasts, some pasta some snacks and of course the required adult beverages. The dingy ride back to the boat was a whole lot slower with all the extra food on board.
Loaded it on the mothership and then decided to head back to the beach and go for a walk leaving the dingy on anchor in the water so we brought the dry bag and a couple cold beers along for the ride incase we found the grocery store.
No sooner than we arrived we were met by “Flash” our tour guide for the beach, he offered to get us buckets of beer and frozen drinks, chairs, etc.. Always the husler, even walked with us to the grocery store where we found some fresh veggies and pork chops at the IGA, basically a store like any back home, which is hard to find here on the islands.
On the way back we found our “Flash” and ordered some beverages from him for all his troubles. Super friendly guy and working the folks off the cruise ship, and us too of course, we over paid for our beers but you have to do that to support the local economy every now and again.
Grilled pork chops and gouda smashed potatoes for dinner and a game of dominos while the sun set and we rocked and rolled in the rolly little anchorage.