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The great Mayrou lime day

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Limed Christmas day away on the hook in Saline bay all day long. A gentle breeze is blowing and gentle waves rocking the boat slightly.

A quick video of what it looks like here.

I posted a couple updates via the SSB radio hopefully they are on line.

After a long night and early church run. Wayne and Christine took a nap, cause that’s what you do when ya got nuttin else to do on a lovely Christmas day. Christine, er Santa brought 3 little stockings of goodies for the crew of the Shack. Chocolates for everyone. I gave the Shack a bath and tried to get the pollution run off from Trinidad.

We have pork chops thawing out for dinner. Gonna be another lovely day in paradise.

Liming all day takes a toll on ya. It’s 7:30 and everyone is fat and happy after dinner and slowly assuming the horizontal positions after some yummy pork chops and garlic mashed potatoes. Humidity dropped and it’s borderline cold here at 80 degrees.

We watched a 60 foot lagoon catamaran try to anchor for about an hour before they finally settled on a spot. Huge boat. We’ll be on the move again tomorrow, having been here for 2 nights it’s time to find a new view. Thinking we are going to Mustique, a private island with expensive mooring balls but ya gotta go check it out at least once and since we haven’t been there before there is no time like the present to go exploring.

While washing the boat I noticed that one of the other boats in the anchorage was flying a Texas flag. Well it was upside down so and I was already in the dingy so I took a break and went on an excursion. I came along side and said “Howdy y’all” well turns out the family was from London and had just sailed across in the ARC and had Texas crew on board that had put the flag on upside down. They offered me a beer so I stayed and chatted with them for a while the the wife and kinds did not cross the Atlantic they were just here to enjoy the Christmas season.

Our little anchorage is a little more crowded this eve but we are holding down to the very end of the line of boats. We can hear the waves on the rocks off to our starboard. It’s beautiful.

Merry Christmas.

Merry Christmas From Mayreau

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Merry Christmas, its nice and sunny warm and blue water down here, a sweet 85 degrees outside and just rocking in the bay.

Christine got up early and she and I went off to church that started at 9am. The cute litte church on top of the hill was packed with cruisers and vacationers and locals alike. I felt a little under dressed in a tshirt most of the locals were all decked out and the band was rocking the christmas tunes.

Even the service was on island time, took a few breaks in the middle to hook up a laptop for some interpetive dance, and the ‘Peace Be With You’ shacking of hands with all the locals, we even recognized Kenta from Dennis’ Hideaway.

Back to the boat for some Texas sized breakfast tacos to Lime away the day.

Christmas Eve

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Woke up in the Tabago Keys, such a lovely place, a conversation with our boat boy Walter revelaled that the stores would be closed for the better part of week after Christmas especially since Christmas is on a Sunday we amended our plans and made a mad dash back to Union Island to get some more provisions, specifically beer and rum cause we didn’t want to run out after all.

A quick sail and even got rained on to wash some of the salt off the boat which it sorely needed.

A quick provision run and an hour on the internet to check up with the outside world and Christine was even able to use skype from the boat to check in with family back home.

We motored back to Mayreau island and went into the winward bay where there were no boats but us, we dropped hook and chilled out there for a while, then picked it up and we went around to Saline bay just the other side of Mayreau and walked up the hill to find the church for Christmas services, its quite the hike up the hill, and found a couple of bars along the way.

We stopped in at Combination Cafe roof top deck and had a couple of beers during sunset and then back the boat for some dinner, grilled chicken breast and smashed pototes and corn. Oh and jello shots for desert.

After dinner we took off in the dingy and stopped by the other 5 boats in this anchorage and did our bet Christmas caroling, something I’m sure ya’ll are glad you didn’t get to hear, because I don’t think any of us can carry a tune or even know all the words to jingle bells anymore.

Our desination was back to the Combination Cafe since they were going to have Karoke tonight, but it was dead so we ventured in to Dennis’s Hidden Resort, and Kenta was the bartender that took great care of us, as we tried to finish on thir Hairoun, the local beer. We met some folks from Whales who were on vacation. Super nice folks that come over to Mayreau for vacation and stay at Dennis. That is dedication since only way to get here is by boat, as there is not an airport on the island.

Some how we made it back to the dingy and boat without having to set foot in the Karoke bar,

Had a great Christmas Eve, slept right through santa trying to come down the chimney since we don’t have one.