Bigsand Hotel Union Island

... and whipped up the most amazing beef Rotis. The Curry seasoning was to die for and Brooke was such a nice hostess. We knew instantly that Brooke's would be a regular stop for us this week. Ironically, we grabbed a local newspaper and found a prominent article about Kim, the marine biologist that we met at Bay Hills Tower (Bailey's place) in St. Vincent. Kim is working with the local island governments to help map the waters of the ...

... Conversely, dear Zoot was hanging on to the steering wheel with a modicum of ease - although his feet were airborne. And there we were crashing our way through canyons of black water with white, drenching, malicious crests. However, for the last 45 seconds we came into the lee of "Friendship Bay", Bequia, and we parted company with Zoot (and $300 EC), and, drenched through we wandered up the beach to find a taxi.<br>The Firefly hotel is unique (set ...

... lumbering through the gardens or crossing the "roads". Courtship and mating is quite a noisy affair with much grunting and clacking of shells. Indeed in "the village" - more of which later - there is a huge, bronze statue of mating tortoises ( I guess nobody famour ever did anything here).<br>If the tortoises set the pace of life - then the lack of set times/hours is governed by the island's largest number of ...

... and our private pool overlooked the golf course. At night, small lizards stuck to the windows adding to the tropical ambiance.<br><br>Peeping Toms!<br><br><br>Our stay eventually came to an end, and we were off, (just after I'd lost back my winnings to the casino, ugg) back into the sky, destination unknown&#8230;<br><br>Stay tuned.<br><br> <br><br>

... dinner and then we all headed to bed that first night. Dinner was good. Most of us ate chicken and potatoes however, some did try the seafood spaghetti. Paul for one!! It had king fish and conk in it and was really good!! We ate at Blue Tropic and the host was great. More later....

Well we are back from Bequia!! but only for a short amount of time and me and cassie are off to Europe! We got in last night at about 12:30 and now we are leaving here at 8 am. Bequia was the most amazing experience I have had! The people down there were extremely friendly and would not stop dancing. We walked away with a lot of friends that took good care of us while we were there: Micheal ...

... of land in Juneau. When we landed in Anchorage (at 01:00), I called Owen. He didn't mind being awakened (too much) and picked us up 30 minutes later. After a few hours of sleep at his place, we did some cold-weather touring - temperatures in the minus 5 range. Grenada was looking better and better. Our flight to Grenada three days later began in Juneau at noon on a Thursday and ended in Grenada the next evening at 20:30. The last plane from ...

Coming from a part of the world where it rains (a lot), and where the rain doesn't stop a person from exiting a spot of dry, we've become weather wimps. It's a bit embarrassing. We'll be ready to leave the boat, backpack and camera in hand, and if we smell a hint of rain, we stand down and wait. We even have to confess to a time in Antigua when we were planning on checking out a new anchorage and the rain came. We waited, wondering what the folks (especially the sailors ...

... they're so used to fat lazy old Euro-tourists who take taxis everywhere. All the people in their massive yachts were giving me funny looks, but I got talking to some Dutch folks and went parasailing with their gear, and did some snorkelling. It only took 30 minutes to paddle back to Mayreau with the current, and Dennis was suitably impressed to make me a 'Dennis Special' cocktail, involving 3 kinds of juice and 3 kinds of rum. Nasty...

Gusty. Had wonderful breakfast of blueberry muffins. Again, windy and squally. Decided mid-morning to head south. Not a bad sail to Chatham Bay on Union Island, but gusts made setting sails interesting. Arrived first of three boats. Nice, shallow anchorage. Swam to shore. Lovely beach. Many poisonous machianeel apples. Swam back. Skinny-dipped off stern. Good fish barbeque in evening. Delish. Many, many video games. Not so stormy.