Paradise Beach Hotel Kingstown

... and headed to town for provisions on the public bus. The Bequia bus is not your ordinary public transportation, nor like any you could imagine. There are several buses that run you all over town for about 1EC (1 US dollar = 2.6 ECs). The buses are mini vans racing through the streets blaring reggae music with locals jamming to the beat inside. What a fun and unique experience. The roads in Bequia are paved, but sketchy to say the least ...

... to say the least….the guide led us at a steady pace as we passed through the rain forest with towering bamboo etc. providing much needed shade. A stop at a flowing stream was very welcome too – but when we were told this was a quarter of the way up – I nearly gave up! But pride is a marvellous motivator, so it was onward and upward, and upward, and upward, until the half way point, where we met a party on the way down who looked shell ...

... kad visgi gidui paskambinsiu nors anskciau buvau nusprendes lipti vienas, nes jau zinojau takeli, o i ankstesnius mano emailus gidas neatrasinejo. Stebuklingai prisiskambinau, nes sugalvojau rinkti pradzioje vieneta. Gidu firmoje sake kad siandien negali nes nera daugiau zmoniu. Susitariau kad mokesiu 75$ x 2 ir uzsakiau. Be gido buciau tikrai neuzlipes... 3. Gidas pasitaike teisingas stiprus ir drasus, tik nusprende kartu pasiimti savo zmona ir savo 6-iu metu ...

... a local reggae band wafting over the water as the moon played peek-a-boo through the scattered clouds. The dinghy continued to give us grief with its persistent, slow leak. We took the pump with us on the few trips that we made to shore. Because of the location of the leak, we weren't able to get a solid patch on the sucker. Each time we attempt a repair, we need to let the patch cure for 72 hours before we can check to see if we were ...

... of flying fish would jump in front of the boat a fly about 20 metres away before dropping back into the waves. By the time I got back to Port Elizabeth, I was feeling pretty happy. Me and one of the Pommie crew kicked on, and I was introduced to a local rum Captain Bligh's Sunset Very Strong Rum. It is 84.5%, and too flammable to take on planes so the local airlines watch out for it. It certainly does make the 'sun set' on your night. I was told the next morning ...

... If there is only time for one sailing excursion, then it must be to the reef-ringed and white sand swept Tobago Cays. The collection of four uninhabited and completely natural islands that comprise the National Maritime Park is the perfect place to spend a water-themed adventure. Once here you can spend their day exploring the underwater treasures of Horseshoe Reef, where the movie Pirates of the Caribbean was ...

... and work on the paperwork and plans for the coming two months. We have decided to forego Trinidad. We are going to put FS on the market the first of July but we will take her back to Antigua by August and place her in the Antigua fleet of Horizon Yacht Charters while she is on the market. We will go as far south as the southern tip of Grenada, have her hauled, bottom painted and waxed there and then sail north to Antigua. She will be in Jolly Harbour Marina under the care of ...

... security. An animal trainer brought in from LA, with a menagerie of goats, parrots and donkeys-which all proved to be badly trained, not sure of his qualifications? For some reason, I don't know why, they used local chickens as background, rather than Uncle Sam's finest GM modified birds, their job was to stay in cages in the background, and do their best at looking chicken-like, which for the most part they managed. But even these local broiliers got the Hollywood ...

... been like totally robbed. The boat was a tip, and it was all very upsetting to see. Laptops gone, GPS and radio gone, my mobile gone, same with cash and binoculars. Amazingly whoever went into the boys cabin, found my camera, within its water proof housing, within it watertight, airight case (not worth much now, but 1,500 pounds to replace) they took out the camera and housing and everything else, then put it carefully back.... And then stole a battery from the camera ...

... all watching and nearly passed out. They were cutting up the fish and weighing the results. I think I turned green and ran out of the crowd. I ended up right in front of a man with a bullhorn speaking. He was literally standing on a soapbox talking saying things such as "we wont' stand for this" "They can't do this anymore" "We will put a stop to .....". I was still reeling from the fish guts so the specifics of the soapbox speaker didn't sink in until later.