Blogs from Carriacou, Grenada, Central America Caribbean - page 3

Sorry its been so long since my last entry, but the internet is slow as crap here and uploading pictures takes several hours. But heres some updates on my exciting life... I don't think I have ever seen/heard rain so intense as it is here. It rains so hard that you can't sleep because of it pounding on the roof or go out or anything, then in about 15 minutes its sunny out. Its like the weather has ADD. It doesn't thunderstorm though, just RAIN in sheets. It rained pretty much all day today which kept us from going out to the site. And if you think you are bored back in the States when it rains outside, you have NO IDEA what its like to be here when its rainy. Jason and I were so ... read more

GREETINGS FROM THE LAND OF NUTMEG!!! Getting to Carriacou has been an adventure, to say the least. My trip began well: my flight to Miami was fine, as was my flight to San Juan. The flights were made infinitely better by the fact that my lovely parents upgraded me to first class!! The first two pictures on here are of the food.. salmon salad for lunch, tortellini with mushroom cream sauce for dinner. Infinitely better than paying for peanuts. But, the trip took an interesting turn in Puerto Rico. At the end of our flight, our plane couldnt park at the right gate because another plane was there, so we had to wait on the runway for about half an hour. Meanwhile, Aleksey (my fearless Russian travel companion) and I only had about 50 minutes between ... read more

We spent Christmas here. We toured some more of the island and because our cruising permit was expiring on the 26, we needed to return the rental car. We stopped by Norbert's house. His girlfriend or wife, Maria asked us to come inside. We sat in their living room, Maria brought out a home made cake, which was delicious, and a Heineken for each of us. Unfortunately Tom did not go with us this day. We checked out the day before while we were in Hillsboro. We asked Maria and Norbert and their daughter Natasha to come to the boat. He drove us in his taxi, Pete dinghy J and I to the boat, and went back for them on the dinghy dock down where the ferries come in. It was Maria first time on a ... read more

14 septembre Nous sommes de retour en Grenade à Clarkes Court Marina depuis le 4 septembre avec un vol d’avion direct de Toronto pour un coût de 820.00 dollars aller- retour par personne. La température est en moyenne de 35 degrés tous les jours et beaucoup de soleil. Ici nous formons une famille avec le propriétaire Bob et son épouse Lesly qui ont vécu 30 ans à Toronto. Depuis notre retour nous avons remonté les voiles et replacé le bateau à notre main. Nous avons fait deux grosses épiceries en vue de notre prochain voyage en direction du sud west. Notre prochaine destination sera les îles de Los Testigos. Moana avait un grand besoin d’être nettoyée sous l’eau, la max prop et la ligne d’eau ont été nettoyées par Guy sous l’eau et il en était ... read more

Sorry that we have been MIA for so long but since hitting grenada about 10 days ago we have been pretty busy catching some rays, sailing our yacht and meeting all of the men on the island. Odds here are ridiculous. It seems there arent a lot of single girls making the trip to the cricket world cup. Fools. We have just had the best day sailing our yacht the Moana Roa and we say goodbye to the yacht tomorrow when we check into some accommo on Grand Anse Beach. Thought you guys would like to know the level of fever pitch we have reached for tomorrow's game, particularly after we have made mates with most of the island already, including the black caps. Lets just say watching cricket will never be the same again. Had ... read more