September to November 2014
This hurricane season the weather has
been kind with 40knot plus winds only a couple of times in 4 months
and no hurricanes touching Grenada.
We have repeated most of the activities
of the last three years with a couple of exceptions.
The best Rum Bar on the Island
“Nimrod's” run by Sep (Septimus) has been host to Country Dave's
Sundowner Sessions. Dave from Pavane has worked hard to build up a
following. There have been good, better and brilliant nights with
many accomplished musicians joining Dave and playing their own sets.
(some have even been professionals! ) Notably Peter from Too Much
Fun, Wiley from Harmony, Troy from Storyville, Matt from Luludu and
Paul from Amanda.
Trudy has been noodling most weekdays
and taking a Spannish course provided by the Venasuelan embassy.
Afternoons on the boat include spannish recitals, Guitar practice and
some interesting sounds from Trudy's Ukelele.
We have continued to try out new fruits
and vegitables and enjoying the deliciously creamy avocado pears,
sugar apples and mangoes in their seasons.
We are still in the process of
completing pre season maintenance with only a couple of parts still
on back order.
At the latest dinghy concert we were
kindly shadowed from the band by a dinghy with a huge umberella.
The “old” marina in Clarkes Court
bay has been flattened. A new marina is being built and the builders
have been blasting out the hillside and moving earth into the bay
reclaiming land.
The girls (and a couple of brave boys)
go noodling most weekdays. It depends on wind and weather.
Rogers Beach bar has a stage that is
slowly tipping into the water. Playing here on a full moon when the
tides are high you get your feet wet!
Calabash grow on trees. The shells are
painted and varnished to be used as interesting bowls.
A few photos of Whisper Cove marina.
Clarkes Court bay is mostly quiet and
tranquil with music occasionally heard from the shore.
Trudy still enjoys hairing around with
the dinghy at full throttle.
Manureva on a washing day. She has been
a great boat but it is time to move on so were are preparing her for
sale. This may be a long process but we will enjoy sailing up and
down the islands on the east Caribbean until she sells.
The Carrenage so called because ith is
a shallow bay where ships used to drop anchor, wait for the tide to
go out and clean (careen) the bottom of them.
St Georges is built around a couple of
bays and up the hilside with lots of steep and narrow streets.
The tipical weather this season has
been scorching hot days with no wind mixed with large, unforcast,
winds together with vast qualtities of rain. If the wind slows down
we are able to catch it and put it in our tanks, however if the wind
stays high it just washes the decks!
We had a hole appear in our dinghy.
They are always going flat but it usually takes a couple of weeks.
This time it was flat in a couple of hours. The glue we buy says it
works best with humidity under 25%! We live in a bout 90%! Anyway
dinghy was lifted upside down on our trampoline and glues and left
for 4 days to cure. Susan and John from Toi et Moi very kindly lent
us their old wooden tender which proved very useful. (better than
swimming to the bar).
