Taking a walk in Carriacou!









After being back in the water, the wood in the cockpit needed some TLC! And people wonder what we do all day!???


We had an early start with the varnishing this morning - only to be challenged by some dark clouds which decided to spoil our fun and dump some rain onto the freshly painted wood. We'll see how it comes out.

As we felt like escaping the fumes, and the restriction of the freshly varnished cockpit, we decided to take a walk from the Tyrell Bay anchorage into the town of Hillsborough. Something like 3 to 4 miles or so, along a winding road.


One of our first challenges was to inform all passing mini-buses that we did not need a ride, we were walking! Yes! Walking! No thanks, we will walk, thanks anyway. Yes ... we will walk .... After a couple of passes by the same buses it became clear that we were indeed walking all the way to Hillsborough!




Actually, it was a nice walk (nevermind, it was almost noon and about 32C - our preferred time of the day (and temperature)) to be out for a hike! Indeed, no matter how we structure our day, we end up at noon time on the road!

But walking enables you to see so much more, meet people, chat with them, study buildings, plants and landscape. Here we visited Rastaman Bennet Frank in Brunswick along the road. He runs a plant nursery ... and specializes also in bicycle rental, jewelry, clothing and balusters. We had fun talking to him and to visit his home. He had a booklet with all the cabinet members of the late Maurice Bishop government (1982). We could say that Bennet, like most Grenadians we met, had a strong sense of loss of identity with the death of Maurice Bishop.

If you ever come this way, see him!

Eventually we made it to Hillsborough and enjoyed an excellent roti (beef!) at Ann's Eating Delight and walked over to a beach bar run by Cuthbert Snagg, a place we had visited last october with Karen and Lindsay..once again, it was the perfect spot to enjoy a cold Carib beer with our feet in the sand.

...on the way back, heavily loaded with food items, we took the bus with Norbert - he was glad to have business. Not much going on man at this time of the day!

Well, we had to go back to work - another coat of varnish and to update the blog. It is late afternoon, almost time for a "sundowner"!

Ya man, see ya .....