Today we moved northward to Halifax harbor, where we snorkeled the underwater statue garden, http://grenadaunderwatersculpture.com, and enjoy the rural areas a bit more before setting off for Carriacou in the morning.
We left St Georges on a Sunny Friday morning, after our regular listen to the Cruisers Net on the VHF radio at 7:30. Its like a morning talk show with information, notices, news, updates, and weather. A great wealth of Information. The Underwater Water Sculpture park was a pleasant stop and Darren was surprised that there is sufficient salt in the water to allow him to float!!!
We motored up the coastline to Halifax Harbor and dropped the hook in 20 feet of water. Pretty deep for us.
When Colin was here previously, he had loaned a fellow who was working on this little bar, some tools to fix his outboard engine. So we walked up to see how the progress on this little bar was going, 7 months later. Obviously the progress is in Caribbean time, as its STILL not complete, but it will be a great little stop once it is.
Saturday morning we departed for our trip 27 miles northward to Carriacau ( pronounced Kare-ee-a-koo).
For days the wind has been from the East, and a bit South of East. Today, when, of course, we want to head North, where is the wind coming from? …But from the North of course. For those of you that don’t know, boats don’t sail into the wind. And this one sailed 60 degrees off it, so we had to motor for a time. Eventually we put a reef in the main, set the jib and sailed off in a general direction we wanted to go.
She sails nicely to windward, flat on the water with no heel. It makes it easy to pass up a coffee to those on watch. The guys set the fishing lures out, and we made our first attempt at fishing under sail. We ate sausages for dinner for your information. No luck today. But we had a great sail for almost 4 hours of our 5 ½ hour estimation.
Land HO! In the distance we spotted our destination, the northernmost point belonging to Grenada. We took our spot in 12 feet of water and got working on our projects. Darren and I worked on photos and blogging, and Colin commenced ripping his cabin floor apart to try and find a water leak. Yes he found it. Yes all is well.
