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

The boats that shared in the Pot luck dinners and Karaoke fun were: Chateau, Moana, Second Wind, Shangrila, Moonsail, Sol Y Mar, Raven, Mink, Dock Queen, Sea Otter, Eaudree, Southern Cross, Prim Rose, Allouette, Seaman's Elixir, Sea Witch, Thora, Sea Schell, Odyssey and too many others...These are the ones I can remember right of the bat!! We are trying to add pictures and will try a video clip. Ok Dory, Deb and Rox, what goes on in Grenada stays there, right? But it is a funny clip...... read more

From this date to July 26, we spent it at the marina. We made several road trips in different directions, with cruisers. We basically saw the whole island. Our driver and tour guy, Cutty, does a fantastic job. He kept stopping to show us a plant or spice. Found out the Callilou is the leaves of the Name (this word has a - on top of the N) (can't figure out how to do it on this laptop). Basically they eat the root, they eat the stems and leaves of this plant. The leaf has a purple dot in the middle. This is how you recognize them. They call Grenada the Spice island, and it sure merits this name. They grow saffron, nutmeg (most trees were destroyed during hurricane Ivan in 2004, some are coming back), ... read more

0530 hours came awful early. Pete went forward pulling the anchor. Went around the South Point, this is where the medical college is located. As soon as we went around the point, the winds went to our nose gusting to 35 miles per hour and the further we went the higher the seas became. We think we started with 5 footers, but by the time we arrived at the turning point the seas were chopped and 9 to 10 footers. Even though is only about 7 miles, it took us forever since we could not get any speed up, and of course we were motoring, no sails. Sea Schell was behind us having same difficulty. We averaged 1.5 knots on this trip, taking so many hours of beating conditions. When we arrived at the turning point ... read more

We arrived in St. George July 3. We were heading for Tobago Cays this morning, when Maribel went below to listen to Chris Parker. Well dang, Chris changed his mind from yesterday's forecast. Chris said this is going to be a tropical depression, and everyone should be in a safe anchorage by Wednesday night. So we did a 180, headed for Mayreau, then Union Island in order to check out from the Grenadines. After anchoring in Union Island, a fellow sailor offered to give Pete a ride into dinghy dock, so we didn't have to drop ours. According to Pete, it was a short 5 minute walk. No checkout fees. We left Union around 0930 hours. We spoke on the VHF with Sea Schell, who was ahead of us, Harry told us he hugged the coast ... read more

Well some of us made it to TV3 news if anyone was watching the day after the cricket. Dan and Ron are making some very switched on statements towards the end of this clip about the cricket result, they are the two drunks in black singlets. I think the rest of us may be visible walking past in the background when the two beige brigaders are being interviewed but cant get a high enough resolution screen here to check it out properly. If you missed it heres the link: http://www.tv3.co.nz/Home/Video/Display/tabid/266/articleID/25535/Default.aspx?src=email#vidlist25535 cheers to dan's family for pointing it out and his mate at TV3 for making it happen :) three days left in grenada, the boys have hired scooters today and are doing the island that way and the girls have just all had 1/2 hour swedish ... read more