http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Grenada/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Central America Caribbean , Grenada en-us Thu, 04 Dec 2008 16:00:06 UTC Thu, 04 Dec 2008 16:00:06 UTC November first is the official end of hurricane season so it was time to leave Trinidad and start our trek north. We are very excite to start another cruising season in the Caribbean not only because our first stop is Grenada and the Grenadines which are amazing but also because we have so many islands to explore this year. Unlike last year where we had to travel over 2500 miles and therefo http://www.travelblog.org//Central-America-Caribbean/Grenada/Grenada/blog-350728.html We sailed from Grenada to Carriacou with our friends Lloyd and Val on SV Puddle Jumper and Dick and Jane on SV Cheetah II. http://www.travelblog.org//Central-America-Caribbean/Grenada/Carriacou/blog-325434.html We have been sailing around the Grenadines jumping from island to island and traveling back and forth. After our short stay in the Tobago Cays we went back up to Bequia for a reunion with SV Verna Breeze which was great fun But then hurricane Bertha started forming and was going to create some nasty weather so it was time to turn back and continue south again. We did a quick sail down to C http://www.travelblog.org//Central-America-Caribbean/Grenada/Grenada/blog-313221.html Now that Regatta is over I can see how dead Carriacou is without it. During the weekend and on Monday there were all night parties food vendors everywhere all the shops were open nonstop. There were awesome competitions...beer drinking donkey races running sailing. I met some cool people including locals who were decidedly unsketchy and also a really awesome girl who does Peace Corps here http://www.travelblog.org//Central-America-Caribbean/Grenada/Carriacou/blog-309562.html Sorry its been so long since i put up a blog. The internet here was being sketch AGAIN and I just now got it to work again after being almost all week without it. Excavation went well this week...we were only rained out on Monday. I was at grand bay all week and I even got to work on a human burial with Scott B the bioarchaeologist from Eckard who is here with us. The burial was really interest http://www.travelblog.org//Central-America-Caribbean/Grenada/Carriacou/blog-307841.html We spent most of June in the Grenadines. We visited Bequia Mustique Canouan Mayreau Tobago Cays Petit St. Vincent and Union Island. While sailing in the Grenadines we started traveling with several other boats from island to island. At one time we had as many as 8 boats traveling together. It was great fun and we made a lot of new friends. Toward the end of June we made our way further http://www.travelblog.org//Central-America-Caribbean/Grenada/Grenada/blog-305095.html HEY ALLTuesday through Thursday I was at Sabazan the other site on the island. This site is headed by a UW phd student that is doing a project about faunal animal remains there. The set up is a lot different than Grand Bay. We only have 56 people so it is a lot less crowdedchaotic. We also have much smaller and deeper trenches...instead of one big 5X5 we have 4 small 1X1s scattered through http://www.travelblog.org//Central-America-Caribbean/Grenada/Carriacou/blog-304847.html Here are all the pictures from the last entryI'll fill you in on the adventures at Sabazan the second site on the island tomorrowALR http://www.travelblog.org//Central-America-Caribbean/Grenada/Carriacou/blog-303391.html Ugh this is getting kind of frustrating. The lack of good internet here is positively killing me. I wrote and ENTIRE bloghellip.like a good page and a halfhellipand the internet cut out so I lost it. LAME. The internet here has been really sketchy lately. I canrsquot get internet at all on my computer so I canrsquot upload pictures for you all. The internet went down here for a day or so b http://www.travelblog.org//Central-America-Caribbean/Grenada/Carriacou/blog-302545.html We hiked to a waterfall watched a cricket match and saw Mona monkeys in Grenada with friends from the sailing vessels Sojourn Magic and Daniel Story. http://www.travelblog.org//Central-America-Caribbean/Grenada/Saint-George/blog-301402.html Sorry its been so long since my last entry but the internet is slow as crap here and uploading pictures takes several hours. But heres some updates on my exciting life...I don't think I have ever seenheard rain so intense as it is here. It rains so hard that you can't sleep because of it pounding on the roof or go out or anything then in about 15 minutes its sunny out. Its like the weather has http://www.travelblog.org//Central-America-Caribbean/Grenada/Carriacou/blog-299830.html 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 http://www.travelblog.org//Central-America-Caribbean/Grenada/Carriacou/blog-297729.html GREETINGS FROM THE LAND OF NUTMEGGetting 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 dinne http://www.travelblog.org//Central-America-Caribbean/Grenada/Carriacou/blog-296323.html 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 bo http://www.travelblog.org//Central-America-Caribbean/Grenada/Grenada/blog-294533.html 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 he http://www.travelblog.org//Central-America-Caribbean/Grenada/blog-246834.html 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 1130 amvery rolly at night. winds increa http://www.travelblog.org//Central-America-Caribbean/Grenada/Carriacou/blog-246833.html 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. http://www.travelblog.org//Central-America-Caribbean/Grenada/Carriacou/blog-235903.html 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 http://www.travelblog.org//Central-America-Caribbean/Grenada/Carriacou/blog-235898.html 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 thes http://www.travelblog.org//Central-America-Caribbean/Grenada/Saint-George/blog-235892.html 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. http://www.travelblog.org//Central-America-Caribbean/Grenada/Clarkes-Court/blog-235891.html 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 u http://www.travelblog.org//Central-America-Caribbean/Grenada/Clarkes-Court/blog-228375.html I am getting cabin fever Will this weather ever clear up. We played dominoes Mexican train this afternoon. Read read...Boring.Cooked split pea soup and small individual pita bread pizzas for everyone.Wind has died down a bit. Waves are still up there.Spoke to a friend in Tortola yesterday said she had same as here.Another cruiser friend today in PR said conditions there not any better.Not to m http://www.travelblog.org//Central-America-Caribbean/Grenada/Clarkes-Court/blog-227664.html We also had our burger night last night. For my son in law Brian a couple of special ones since he is the musician in the family. We were serenaded by a steel drum player. Burgers were good real tomatoes this time. There had been a shortage of tomatoes for a few weeks. We found anon or as they call it here Sugar Apple today will take some pics of the fruit and veggies we bought sometime. We to http://www.travelblog.org//Central-America-Caribbean/Grenada/Saint-George/blog-227330.html Here we are rain rain wind rain wind...and on and on...We broke down this morning ended up putting side curtains on the cockpit. Darn rain won't quit. I stuck new computer in garbage bag and came up to Oasis. We have dominoes books and Soduko with us. Looks like a crummy day.Yesterday afternoon Jeris and I went for a walk. It had rain rain but finally had a break so the walk which turn http://www.travelblog.org//Central-America-Caribbean/Grenada/Clarkes-Court/blog-227031.html Did you know this is a lot of work. That is putting the pics on the web page. But it is nicer and good to see. Great reminder for us.So here are more.... http://www.travelblog.org//Central-America-Caribbean/Grenada/Grenada/blog-226851.html A few pictures to give you an idea of what it looks like lot's of bays. http://www.travelblog.org//Central-America-Caribbean/Grenada/Grenada/blog-226840.html This is Spice Island Marine Services where Paper Moon was haul out for 4 months. In order to be able to store more boats they use this trailer like things. It is very unnerving watching your boat being transfered from the stands to the trailer and then the slings to put in water.Here are some pics. http://www.travelblog.org//Central-America-Caribbean/Grenada/blog-226837.html We have been in Grenada almost 2 weeks. The 1st week went by rather slow with boat in yard and us having a cow waiting on them to paint the bottom.Finally boat went in the water last Monday at 1315 off we went to Clarkes Court Bay Marina.Tom and Jeris came in that night. Boat was a mess. Tuesday Jeris AND I WENT SHOPPING WHILE PETE AND TOM ASSEMBLED THE MAIN AND OTHER THINGS.We have rented a http://www.travelblog.org//Central-America-Caribbean/Grenada/blog-226827.html Pete decided not to go with us. We rented a 4 wheel Susuki for a week. We went on the West side of the islandthrough the Carrenage down the tunnel and away we went. Downtown by the Carrenage the streets are 1 way we kind of got a lost but then found our way whew...On the way to Gueyave some of the road was washed out detours and of course we went the wrong way to end up in a dirt road http://www.travelblog.org//Central-America-Caribbean/Grenada/Grenada/blog-226826.html