Blogs from Saint Vincent & Grenadines, Central America Caribbean - page 2

First, I need to apologize for some of the captions on the photos of the last blog entry. Not sure what happened but I see that some of the titles didn’t get matched up with the photos – hopefully it didn’t cause too much of a problem for you! I was in too much of a hurry at the internet café to get the blog done that I didn’t double check this last time – will work on that for future blog entries! Remember when we said we planned on moving slowly up north in the islands this sailing season? Well, we are true to our word right now. We arrived at Union Island on Tuesday, December 27th and in listening to the weather predictions figure we will go to Tobago Cays this coming Monday. What ... read more

Some of the craft and souvenir shops that you see on the islands are the same that you see anywhere. You have the typical jewelry, the T-shirts with numerous funny and not so funny sayings, handmade dolls and all of the other items you expect in a gift shop in any tourist town. The nice thing is that we have also seen many unique items – either due to the materials used or the skills involved. These are the ones that make you look again as well as buy in order to help to support the local craftsperson. The other difference is that some you find in shops, but the majority are found being sold by vendors along the streets (usually the artist themselves) or brought out to the boat by what they call “boat boys”. ... read more

On a réussi! Enfin, nous avons mis les voiles et quitté les eaux de Ste-Lucie. De Rodney Bay, où nous avions dû retourner parce que le capitaine s’était cassé une dent, nous sommes allés entre les Pitons pour une nuit et avons finalement sorti toutes les voiles et vogué vers d’autres horizons! Le 6 mai, la traversée a été superbe : petites vagues de moins de 3 pieds au début et quelques vagues de 4pi vers la pointe nord de St-Vincent, toujours par le travers, un vent d’environ 15noeuds tout le long tantôt par le travers, tantôt à 70deg. Seul hic, un courant de 1.5n presque dans le nez nous a ralentis un peu. Le bateau était bien appuyé dans ses voiles et nous nous sommes ainsi laissés bercer pendant 7 heures (47.8mn au lieu de ... read more

GREETINGS FROM BEQUIA, Hi everyone, sorry we haven't written in a few days, but we've busy with a wedding here. Everything went smoothly for Sunday's ceremony. We had a half dozen of our friends here on the island in attendance. It started raining just a couple of minutes before we were done, which was not a problem other than we couldn't get the photos we wanted afterwards because everything was all wet and cloudy. The traditional wedding cake here is called "black cake" and it weighs a ton. We ordered a cake for 12, but it must have been big enough for 20 at least. Sarah took a few pictures for us (354 to be exact). We had a very beautiful, non-traditional ceremony right here at our villa. Malialani made a grand entrance down our 50 ... read more

Greetings from Rainy Bequia, Yesterday sailed to Mustique for the day. We had 15 guests aboard the Friendship Rose. The day started out cloudy and never really got too much better. We had some glimpses of sunshine in the afternoon. But Bequia got rain the whole time we were away. So I guess we were the lucky ones. It was Malialani's first visit to Mustique so I got to show her around. All of our guests, save one, wanted to do the taxi tour of the island, so the two of us were joined by Russell, a charming Brit, on a "vigorous" hike across the island to Macaroni Beach. I had described it as "up the hill, down the hill, up the hill, down the hill, up the hill, down the hill and turn left, but ... read more