Blogs from Saint Vincent & Grenadines, Central America Caribbean - page 6

Greetings from Bequia! Today David and I started our day with another photo shoot assignment at the Villa, Helianthus. Helianthus is the Latin term for "sunflower." We had a great time shooting photos and video of the inside, outside views, pool and garden. Bequia is somewhat hilly and the villas we visited Sunday and the Helianthus today, require a four-wheel drive and then you still may need to park and hike the rest of the way. So, we decided to take the company car, the Landrover, and slowly wind our way up to the top of the hill. I have named this faithful transportation servant, Bella. (Which has a nicer ring to it than David's choice of "Rover.") Now Bella has been a very good vehicle, but we believe she is trying to send the message ... read more

5-Feb-2010, I'm starting to loose track of what day it is. I think the "Island Time" has taken over. Night before last Meg sent me out to get some twilight/night pictures of the harbour. She wanted that "candle-lit look". I'm not sure I was able to accomplish what she wanted, but I may have gotten a couple of good pics. Yesterday was another trip to the Tobago Cays. We had a total of 18 guests and I had all their names memorized before we rounded the SW tip of Bequia. There were several Canadians, a couple from DC, and a family of 6 from Chicago. The captain and crew had to keep bringing up the falling in incident from earlier in the week with such comments as "going swimming today?" and "you're not carrying anything that's ... read more

Greeting from Bequia The last couple of days have found us without internet at the house, so I have had to come to the harbour shop early in the morning before we leave for Mustique to catch you all up. Saturday my jobs were to attach some bow and stern lines to the spare dingy in the yard and to install a bench in the changing room of the Friendship Rose. That sounds like two simple joys if one has the proper tools and equipment, but here on a remote island thats saying a lot. Everything here works on island time and when the day was done I had the dingy done, but the bench still was putting up a fight. To drill the holes for the bench I needed power for the drill. So I ... read more

Hi Blog followers Sorry I missed a day, but read on and you'll know why. Tuesday we made a double round tripper to St Vincent. The crew and I weighed anchor on the Friendship Rose at 7:30 and set off to St Vincent to pic up a load of guests from a British cruise ship called Ocean Village. When we arrived at Kingstown we had to wait for a catamaran to move out of the way before we could reach the cruise ship dock. Once we got to the dock we collected 18 guests and started back to Bequia. We took them to Princess Margaret beach for an hour then back onboard for a delicious lunch, then we took them to town for an hour and back to St Vincent. They all really enjoyed the trip. ... read more

AT LAST A DAY WHEN I CAN DO SOMETHING I'M GOOD AT. 05:35- I couldn't sleep thinking about the alarm going off in 5 minutes. 06:00-unlock the shop and recieve last minute instructions from Alan. The main thing is come home with the same number you left with. Good advise to be heeded. 06:30-the crew is all aboard and the final count of guests to expect is 43. Colin starts to dingy the guest aboard-first trip-15, second trip-19, third trip-5. The phone they've given me rings and Alethia tells me that one couple is going to join us outside the harbour coming over from St Vincent,that one couple failed to show up, and that we are to bring one passenger up from the Cays to Bequia. that makes the count 41 going down and 42 coming ... read more