http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/Appleseeds/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Appleseeds en-us Sat, 12 Dec 2009 03:00:40 +0000 Sat, 12 Dec 2009 03:00:40 +0000 OIL DOWN The national dish of GrenadaIt was a great afternoon with about 20 cruisers and 20 locals. The recipe kind of says it allTake a swig of rum preferably Rivers. Grate fresh coconut and saffron. about an hour with 8 people Peel breadfruit ripe green bananas pumpkin. get locals to help with this. Go to nearest callaloo bush pick 12 dozen leaves. Take another swig Rivers rum. 89 g http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Grenada/Grenada/blog-376577.html Peacefully bobbing at anchor at Hog Island Grenada we have just finished dinner of bbqrsquod pork chops and are now enjoying the serenity. Tree frogs are a constant hum. The temperature is still in the low 80rsquos I have given up trying to translate to Celsius but the heat is over for the day. It sure is nice to have Ace here she arrived two days ago after having given me ten days to l http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Grenada/Grenada/blog-376005.html The pace in Hampton was a tad more frantic than Deltaville. The boats for the 1500 were arriving every day and each no doubt had many things to accomplish. We arranged for our inspection for Monday morning as we wanted as much time as possible to rectify any shortcomings. Rick showed up bright and early the next morning and we went through the list point by point. Well it seems the frantic activit http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/British-Virgin-Islands/Tortola/blog-227109.html Season II on Appleseeds has begun with my return to Deltaville Virginia in mid September. Over the summer we had decided that our return trip to the Caribbean would not be a reverse of the Intracoastal Waterway but instead would be a ten day sail offshore from Norfolk Virginia to the British Virgin Islands the Caribbean 1500. The offshore decision made the list of things to do pale the list of http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Virginia/blog-227091.html Latitude 30 deg 20 min N 70 deg 20 min W 400 miles SE of Cape Hatteras 200 miles SW of Bermuda and 700 miles from BVI wind NE 30 to 35 kts seas 12 ft 3 reefs in the main 70 of our small jib surfing 9 to 10 kts. We have come through several squalls tonight and there is lightning all around its 5 AM black the wind is fairly steady the seas are building. At our last radio check the prev http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/British-Virgin-Islands/Virgin-Gorda/blog-225163.html