After a long sail day, 72 miles we arrived in Bequia and dropped the hook. Cleared customs and are now in St Vincent and the Grenadines. EseaClear made clearing customs a lot easier, filling out the paperwork online they were able to print and file it quite quickly. Immigrations was also pretty easy, and the guy there said I could come back in the morning to sign Shawn and Sharon off the boat instead of trying to find the place over on St Vincent, so I’ll probably do that after breakfast.

We had dinner a shore @ L’Auberge des Grenadines known for the lobster dinners, and they did a stupendious job. Normally they have a band on tuesdays, but not last night. Dinner was yummy and we had a 10 minute walk back to the dingy. Christine stopped to pet a doggie and it jumped up on her breaking her brand new island special necklace.

A large sailing cruise ship the Club Med came into bay and anchored a few hundred feet behind us so we decided to dingy around it on the way back to the boat, made for a wet ride back to the boat for a game or two of dominos.

Wednesday is going to be a exploring day, and we’ll end up in St Vincent this eve.

After the pork chops finally thawed out, we had a pretty decent meal on the boat. Grilled up the porkchops and pineapple that we picked up from a boat boy with a side of corn is what we had for dinner. A couple of games of Domino and in bed by cruisers midnight, 9pm. Shawn and I stayed up for a while longer but not much past the witching hour.

Its now midnight in Souferier, its raining yet again. The outline of the petit Peton can barely be seen against the gray sky. The Petons are the largest mountains in Southern St. Lucia which are 1/2 a mile from where we are moored. The wind that came with this rain is crazy. Gusting to 37knots and consistently over 30kt.

So much so that it even woke Wayne up. There are 6 mooring balls along the cliff here, we are about 100 feet from the shore and the wind is blowing right down the cliff stretching and creaking the bridle with every gust. I’m sure Shawn and Sharon are wondering about all that noise thats going on just outside the forward berth.

When the wind drops below 20knots it is very peaceful, and if it can stay that way, maybe I’ll get some sleep, or at least a nap on tomorrow’s sail to St. Vincent.

Despite the lack of sleep, everyone was up pretty early. And we were underway before breakfast, raised the sail and headed out in the dark and gloomy weather. Nice 10knots of wind in the lee of St . Lucia, so a little motor sailing and charging the batteries.

Typical Texas Breakfast tacos with some bacon and fixens were created while sailing in the lee, shortly after clearing St Lucia we had some 15kn of wind, so we killed the engines and sailed by the wind alone, making 9kn through the water passing many monohull sail boat along the way.

We dropped the lures in the water before breakfast, and no bites till zing. Another doozie hit and took alot of line and jumping out of the water. Slowed the boat down by turning into the wind and 45 mins of fighting later the jumping fish finally figured out how to spit out the lure! Doh! At least this time the knot held and we still had the lure, unlike our rookie mistake on the cousin of jaws from yesterday!

Making great time, we are thinking about going ashore in Bequia instead of St Vincent to clear customs to get another island for Shawn and Sharon on this trip. That and its till overcast so visiting the Walibou, where they shot pirates of the carribean wouldn’t be too exciting and the customs at Walibou are only open between 4-6pm.

Still heading south bound and down.