Time to move on. Lazy arousal. Time to clear out, over to Clifton under motor find boat boy this time recognizes us and doesn’t bother us very much. We pull in the deeper side and head around the reef thats in the middle of the anchorage, and find what looks to be a decent spot to drop the hook to refuel / drop some garbage / and do the customs paperwork.

First drop, the hook doesn’t stick, so can’t leave the boat like that. Second attempt it sticks, tho with the scope we are really close to a mooring with a large mono sailboat. So we watch the wind shift for bit and see what it really is going to do. Yup its close, but we aren’t spending the night or anything. Head ashore to do the dirty.

Turn in 4 cases of empty bottles and stock up on 2 more, just enough to get us to Grenada where the brands change over to Stag. Last trip, I tried to be good, and use Carib which is available on all islands, but they only recycle the bottles from the same islands, seems the glass changes color and the bottles have different imprints. So much for trying.

Got in trouble at the immigrations office at the airport, seems that for the last 15 times here I’ve been doing it wrong, we should only use the airport after hours and weekends, there is another place in town closer to the dock that should be used. After some apologies, and promises to do it correctly next time, he checks me out.

Back to find the crew who was out refueling. Evidently they had to search multiple locations for our sundries but they found our necessities (capers, cheese, beer, eggs).  Found em, loaded up the dingy then decided we needed some decent internet so chilled at the Yacht Club bar, and made a last minute hotel reservation for while we are on the hard working in the yard.

Have hotel room, time to move on. Downwind, set the jib and headed to clear into Grenada.

Made a short trip of the 9 miles to Tyrell bay and cleared in, lots of paperwork but well still had plenty of day light so picked up the hook and kept on heading south. The wind was light the waves were light, so we headed to a place thats known as rolly and a day stop. Christine and I stayed here last xmas for a night, and given that the conditions were 1000% better this time we’d do it again.
I started thinking about what to cook for dinner, we are fully stocked with food still, so lots of options. I didn’t actually bring it up yet, and then it happened. That wonderful sound, ziiiiiiinnnnnnnng. The Real was singing the dinner bell for us. Slowed the boat down, increased the drag on the reel and the fight was on. Wayne assumed the position and brough the Mahi Mahi on board .. pretty good sized on too.

Then filet’ed it up as Christine and I dropped the sails and anchored the boat behind the Rhonde Island, a deserted island nothing but a couple of fishing skiffs out in the water. It was hot, not enough wind, but after we found some shade on the bow, it cooled off. The wash down pump isn’t able to suck the ocean water up, need to figure that out, something is blocking the line, maybe a barnacle or something. Checked the internet… We are 7 miles from what ever access point I found, but we have the internet so used it to find a quick Mahi Mahi recipe.

Rice and Seared Mahi Mahi over some wilted spinach is what we chowed on, with a nice Nip of the Chairman’s rum, you know.. to fight off Scurvy.

Since we are in the bay all alone, we prentended to be on Lake Austin, powered up the green glow, and broke in the new speakers with some 80s rock ballads. That settles it, time to bring the mullet back. A great day till the touch battery ran low and had to turn down the tunes so Christine could get some sleep.

Tomorrow, a quick jaunt down to the sculpture gardens, a swing into St Georges before heading round the bottom of Grenada, winding on down.

You’d think we dropped roots for as long as we’ve been here..

Got a nice rain shower over night rinsed off the boat but had to get up in the middle of the night to close some hatches, tho things had started get wet, I’m sure they’ll dry quickly tho.

Have some rubber o-ring gaskets to replace on all the hatch handles, easy process, but there are a lot of them, at least 20 per side so that should be a good project for today.   

Some over cast, and a bit of rain but no on our parade..

Thinking we might leave tomorrow… maybe..

Chatham Bay Resort. Hut on left is restaurant and hit on right is bar.    

Spent all sunday liming the day away.  Christine read, Wayne finished all his magazines, we talked about going snorkeling.  The only goal was to go ashore for a little bit of internet since we are still unable to connect from the boat.  Got word that its Flooding down in Texas, Lake Travis rose 7 feet over night, it needed the rain its the most full its been in 3 years, and its still got lots to go to get to normal levels.

Down here its not been raining much at all, just warm and breezy.  I cut the hole for the second new speaker, completing that install.  Promptly rocked out to Lonely Island’s “I’m on a boat” song.  Finally 5 years later and the sound system is starting to be respectable.  Still have bow speakers and an amp to install, just not sure how to run all the wires all the way to the bow.   

Ashore late afternoon for some over priced drinks and internet then back to the boat to watch sunset from the bow before cooking some dinner.   Watched a lagoon 380 come into the bay from St Thomas and the rolling furler on the jib broke/jammed or something they finally ended up dropping the Jib on deck to get it under control.  We dingy’d over after they were on anchor and offered to lend a hand, but they said they got it.   They were just tired after the long sail over.

Perroggi’s for dinner a couple of hands of cards and we are nearing the end of the last beer run.   Trying to decide on when to leave and where to go next.  Maybe today, Maybe tomorrow.  Thinking about meeting Tranquility in St George, Grenada on Wednesday – but other than that no real plans.

Boat project box is pretty empty, most everything is working, haven’t fired up the water maker, we normally make 2 weeks before needing water, dunno if we’ll make this 2 week trip or not.

Christine and I at sunset 

Christine Hanging out at Chatham Bay Resort. Keep in mind no rooms just a bar and restaurant. But “Vanilla” our hostess is nice and has a heavy pour.

Funny bird all over the island with a Mohawk. Reminds Christine of her mom’s crazy critter birds.