We started digging on Monday. Our buses picked us up at 8 and we took the narrow, winding road over the mountain to Grand Bay, our principle site. A word about the drivers in Carriacou: theyre completely NUTS!! They speed and take curves super sharp. They also honk at EVERYONE...I guess it's the polite thing to do when you know everyone on the island. Anyways, we got there and started clearing the site. That involves moving all the tree limbs, leaves and other debris to get down to the bare dirt. Then the fun part began: excavation. I'm not really sure [View Full Entry]

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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 [View Full Entry]

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A good friend of ours decided that the opportunity to escape the delights of a Canberra winter and come and bludge off us was too good to pass. So Svenny joined us for a couple of weeks which happened to coincide with the Australian cricket team's tour of the West Indies. Having been starved of any decent sport for the last 18 months this was too good an opportunity to pass up and we decided to book some flights and get across to catch two of the One Day International games in Grenada. Unfortunately Fiona was stuck at work and couldn't [View Full Entry]

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We finally scaped Grenada, sort off. We are in Carriacou, which is a dependency of Grenada. Very laid back attitude, typical of some islands. Unfortunately, it is a rocky anchorage, every night around midnight the rocking starts. Last about 3 hours, then stops. What a mystery. We have been all over Tyrell Bay by both dinghy and foot. We met Elusive from WI, met them in Luperon, they are haul out here. Also 2nd Millennium, this couple has been in the Caribbean for the past 11 years, John has not set a foot in the USA. Jeris keep saying we are [View Full Entry]

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Dec 25, had norbert, maria and natasha, 10 yrs old, on board. rented susuki from him for 50 us a day. Pete did not go on 2nd day car trip. His knees hurt to much from having to sit in rear sit, due to Tom sitting on front seat. went to mount royal. bought avocados, bananas. Dec 26 up with anchor at 0700, winds a bit strong. arrived in ashoton harbor around 11:30 am very rolly at night. winds increased. but the kiss never trip. dec 27, clifton, union checked in, 3 tax on boat, 35 per couple all us. visited [View Full Entry]

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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 [View Full Entry]

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We arrived in Tyrell very quickly today. We motor sailed, and part was sailing only. We skidded the Kick em Jenny volcano, past the Sisters and Diamond Island. Arriving in Carriacou. Tyrell Bay is a delightful place to visit. 3 grocery stores, while in one, the ferry had arrived, they brought in a laundry hamper full of beef meat. The locals apparently know when the ferries come in, no sooner had this hamper come in the door, the locals were all over the place. They cut what they want with a very sharp knife provided by the owner of the market, [View Full Entry]

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Jeris and Maribel went to the Carenage by Dinghy and walked up the mountain (steep) to the open market yesterday. Found several new stores. You know women they can shop till they are dead. Jeris baked a cake for Maribel's birthday, very tasty. Maribel cooked a nice dinner, in the process burnt her left arm when taking out a pot from underneath the oven. Boats aren't they fun. Pete has dinghied these two all over. Tom & Pete went to the Yacht Club, while M & J were doing laundry. Jennie came over with a care package from Joann, our daughter, [View Full Entry]

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We settled the bill this morning at $415 US. We said our goodbyes, and got on the way to the Lagoon in St. George. Going out the cut it was a little wavy, about 6 footers, nothing like in July with 10 footers. Arrived in the Lagoon in the early afternoon, and proceeded to make our selves at home. During the upcoming days we will check the Carenage by dinghy and on foot. [View Full Entry]

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We had an interesting weekend. We clean out the refrigerator, inventoried the can goods. Making a list for tomorrow morning. We did 3 loads of laundry over the weekend. We had the usual Karaoke night Sat night and pot luck dinner. We went for a dinghy ride today. Hog Island still has lot's of boats, not as many as in July. Sunday night Jeris cooked dinner. After dinner, we had a local dog come up on our dock, waiting for a hand out. All the dogs here are so skinny, you see their bones. So today we are saving all the [View Full Entry]

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