Blogs from Saint Vincent & Grenadines, Central America Caribbean - page 5

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

Greetings from Bequia, Lets see, the last time we blogged was Monday morning, so what's happened since then? Well, Monday afternoon one of the villas the Team represents was with out water, so we headed up there to investigate. The two couples staying there were all on our Tobago Cays trip the day before and they were pleased to see a familiar face. After about 20 minutes I finally located the pump and realized it had come unplugged. Plugged it back in and was an instant hero. Later that afternoon, we showed one of the same couples the neighboring villa that is for sale. There are actually two villas that share the same property. We went away thinking they were more curious than interested, but we still had a good time showing them and seeing the ... read more

Greetings from Bequia, This morning we got up and around for a hike over to Spring Bay and Industry Bay. Before we could get out the door, Alan our host, asked us to take some photos while we were in that area. It was a very hot morning and I was glad that Malialani had suggested packing a snack. A PB&J really tastes good when you're out on a hot mid-day hike. We got a call while we were out to set up an appointment to photo a boat for a new speedboat service, so it was back into town later in the afternoon. After those shots we took the Rover (Bella) and Angel, one of the charming girls from the Harbour office, and went up to a villa called Cotton Tree to check on some ... read more