Christmas Winds!

The last week or so, the Christmas Winds picked up, blowing hard from the ENE. According the the forecast, we may have a break (thanks due to some strong winter storm in North America and Canada) in the wind strenght, and some shift towards ESE.

If this is the case, we will move North towards Bequia in order to spent Christmas there.

While waiting, we use the time to work on the boat. We just finished the wood in the cockpit (applied 4 layers of Cetol) and will do some varnishing inside - so that we will look pretty for Christmas!

We had a nice evening with Peter on Aquataurus - he was passing through on his way to Grenada to pick up his new dinghy. Initially, we had thought of going with him to do our Christmas shopping there, but he needs more time than we could afford away from the boat.

This morning we walked, once again, to Hillsborough, did our vegetable and wine shopping at the local fruit vendors and grocery stores. It was an enjoyable hike, followed by a cooling swimm. We never tire from the beautiful vistas and also from witnessing the local life, like these children playing around a majestuous mango tree...


At the end of the afternoon, we went with german friends (s/y Bagalut - Germany) to a Halleluja, a boat cafe, to "support the local economy" for a beer (3 for 10EC, hard to beat!). We were quite a group there, with several canadian boaters, german and dutch sailors, and many locals just having a good time ..Denise, the owner, was delighted to have so much business!