Grenada
We left Trinidad on November 1st and started our
journey back home to Maryland minus the anticipation and wonderment of the
adventure south. However, we determined
to keep this trip fresh by stopping in areas that we either had not seen
previously and to those that we particularly enjoyed.
So, our first stop was Le Phare Bleu in Granada where we
checked in to customs and immigration, took really steamy (humidity kind)
showers in their lighthouse ship and again and enjoyed their lovely restaurant for
lunch. We spent two days there and then
headed to Mt. Hartman Bay, where we anchored and dinghed into the Secret Cove
Marina. There, we again found George, (the
taxi driver from the last visit) and hired him to take us on a tour of the island. Our first stop was to anther magical waterfall. Then we headed to two chocolate factories
where Cliff found 75% chocolate and surprise, surprise, he is now a chocolate
lover of sorts!
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| Just one more beautiful waterfall |
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| Ladies with colorful headdress posing with George, our tour guide! |
While in Grenada, we took advantage of some of the Cruiser’
favorite activities as playing bingo with the locals who hope to win a live pig
for the grand prize. Slow Dancing and
the crew of Living Life, (a catamaran) joined us for the “games”. Dave and his wife Janice on Living Life are a
younger couple who for some very strange reason really wanted to win that
pig. Puzzling that it was, after talking
to Dave for a while, it suddenly became clear to me as Dave is from Arbutus,
MD, a few short miles from my home in Baltimore. Guess lots of Baltimorean’s
like pigs???????:) Also, for my birthday, Cliff took me back to the Aquarium
Restaurant for dinner and we had a lovely celebration.
Carriacou
We checked out Tyrell Bay and then took taxi with Robert to
Hillsborough and so enjoyed watching Robert flirt with one of his passengers…He
definitely had style and was quite impressive with his approach. He dropped us off in the town and promised to
pick us up in a couple of hours. We roamed around, had lunch at a new hotel
facing the water, went to a popular bakers and were very impressed with the
cleanliness of the cute little town.
On the way back to the boat in Robert’s cab, a lady and her
8 or 9 year son were already in the cab and Robert explained that he had to
take them home first if that was all right with us. Turns out, that the woman and the boy were
his wife and son and that Robert had fathered 19 children by more than one
wife. He actually gave us a phone number
of one of his daughters who lives in Silver Spring, Maryland.
The next stop, he picked up a young woman named Christina
who remembered us from 5 months ago at a restaurant where she was waitressing.
Petite Martinique
This is one of the places that we said we would like to
visit on the way back. Since it was so close to Carriacou, we thought we would
stop. We picked up a mooring and went to
a little back yard restaurant for both lunch and dinner. Waitress was delightful and the town though
very small, was pretty
St Vincent
and the Grenadines
Clifton
We left for Clifton on
Union Island, 11/18/2015, where to check in, we had to walk to the airport. Found
tomatoes in the outside vendors square and enjoyed sun downers in the Bougainvillea
resort that has a cute little dinghy dock entered by going under a Venetian
like bridge to an enclosed and sheltered area.
Went to dinner at the famous?? Barracuda’s where we had a fantastic
pizza and wine. The next day, we dinghied over to Happy Island, a really cute bar
in the middle of a reef. This Island was created by a man named Janti who built it by hand. He served in the office of tourism and tried
to clean up the island especially the conch shells left on shore by
fisherman. He solved the problem by
using the conch shells to build his own island where one can snorkel by day and
have sun downers at night. It has a great dinghy
dock, is very informal and a wonderful spot to view the sunsets.
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| Happy Island |
Tobago Cay
Because we enjoyed it so much the last time, we set out for
Tobago Cay again to enjoy its scenery and charm. We arrived on November 18 and spent a lazy
day reading. The next day, we dropped
the dinghy and explored the area again. Our plan was to go to the beautiful
beach and swim but while on the beach, numerous blow fish and two skate showed
up and we thought better of it. Swimming
with Dolphins, yes, skate??? Not so much.
While there, we noted several locals hanging out, one in a hammock. I asked him if he had seen Simon (Cliff
spotted his boat earlier). He replied
that he was Simon and just like on our last visit, soft talked us into another dinner
on the beach. This time with perfectly
cooked lobster. And just like last time, a beautiful evening on the beach.
Mayreau
November 20, arrived in Mayreau mid-morning. We dinghied in
to the town dock and started walking up a very steep hill to see the town. On
the way up, we met John, who was Mayreau’s Justice of the Peace. He stopped us
on the way to introduce himself and find out where we were from. When he discovered we were from Maryland, he
went into the history of the state and recited 15 minutes worth of its
history. Which included facts that I (a
born and raised Marylander was unaware).He said that he studied it in school
(part of the British Heritage)
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| Cliff posing with John, Justice of Peace and Maryland Historian |
Soon after, I stopped by an outside stand where an older
lady was selling jewelry and she told us to walk up to the church for a
beautiful view. First we stopped at
Dennis’s to refresh ourselves from the long walk and decided to go back for
dinner based on the interesting menu.
Walking further up, we were hailed by a man named Robert who
took us on a tour of his self- built restaurant that was posing for picture
taking.
Robert didn’t serve lunch so we
walked up the hill further to the Catholic Church and the beautiful overlook of
Tobago Cay.
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| Robert's creation |
We finally stopped for lunch at the Combination Inn where we met Roger and Lynn, fellow boaters from Seattle Washington.
We ate lunch together and talked of the
highlights of our trips and agreed that we would probably meet in Bequia in
another couple of days.
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