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Sandy Island is peaceful and tranquil

All is good, just chillin out most of the day. Walked Sandy Island saw the Stonehenge tributes on both ends of the island and even added my own. Bunches of corals stacked in tall piles some in the shapes of turtles, mine more resembled the leaning tower. Not a very good engineer.

Had Wings and Mahi tacos and some grilled squash, twas another enjoyable evening eating off that huge Mahi that Shawn landed. We has snacked on some for lunch as well, and have one more meal. The problem is we have chicken and pork also to eat in the next 4 days, we are not going hungry.

This is pretty amazing, we are about 2 miles from the town of hillsbourgh and with the Wifi antenna up on the flag halyard we can still get reasonable connectivity.

Tomorrow we head further south to Grenada, and or some lunch spots on the way, something like 30 miles. Going to need to make a little more water for the starboard side, its down to 1/4 tank again. Yesterday we filled the Port side to a solid 1/2 and only a light 1/2 on starboard, so no running the washing machine till we make some water on the starboard side.

Salt Island Sunset

Salt Island Sunset

Presto there is Pesto!

The search for Pesto official stops in a Grenada! We have sourced the illusive paste here in Carriacou, the northern island of Grenada. The dingy dock was so crowded I had to push them out of the way and tie a real long rope to ours to keep it out of others way. Something like 20 dinks tied up and wouldn’t you know it, they were all trying to clear customs and immigration as well.

So over an hour later and we invaded Grenada for the first time, at least they let us in peacefully. Course we’ll only be here a couple of days as we head to the big island tomorrow. We grabbed a ball outside of Sand Island a deserted island had some lunch here. There was a huge rain storm that came down and washed the boat off while I was undertaking the customs task. Christine and Wayne had to hide in the boat but its all cleared up and hot now.

Sammiches for lunch and a little more grilled Mahi to snack on, provisions topped up, some fancy Grenada Rum. One store was 48 EC per bottle, another was 32 EC, so we picked up 3 bottles of Grog, literally called Grog.

Off to explore sand Island and get in the water.

FAIL

So we suck, we spent too much time at anchor checking email and internet stuff when we pulled into Union Island that by the time we got ashore all the stores were closed on Sunday.

So after last nights party we are pretty dry on the boat, not that we need anything but cold beer would be nice as today its very hot and not much wind. We are slowing cruising around union island to Chatham bay where we stayed a few years ago. Its an isolated bay without any thing ashore, just a nice beach.

I did manage to clear us out of the Grenadines by walking to the airport while Christine and Wayne were off visiting the closed grocery stores! *oh well*

Gonna grill up some chicken wings when we get to Chatham and also thawing out some of the Mahi for dinner this eve.