Monday, November 13, 2006

Prickly Bay, Grenada
11.59.953N
61.45.753W

Today we prepared to make another move north.

We dinghied over to Mt. Hartman Bay and uploaded our latest posts, then returned to Hog Island, where we made our rounds saying good-bye to everyone. We hoisted anchor and moved west to Prickly Bay. On our transit over we saw a house in the shape of a castle, including turret, painted gold. One of those amazing sights you never imagine seeing.

We entered Prickly Bay and anchored, almost as if in another lifetime, just a bit behind DocNoMore. Only this time, there were no welcoming shouts to come on over or ‘let’s go exploring’. Probably just as well, as a storm cell passed to the north of us and made all of the boats dance in a circle. Linda told us later that they had held back watching a funnel shaped cloud trying unsuccessfully to reach the water. We never saw it.

We dropped the dinghy into the water and made our way to Budget Marine to pick up a few last minute supplies and then hiked out to the road where we could catch a bus into town to stop by a bank and grocery store to do our last minute provisioning. We returned the same way we had come and went to our respective boats to secure everything.

Since this will be the last time we’ll be near any ‘real’ restaurants, Dale and I made one more trip to Bananas for dinner.

When we returned, we lifted the outboard onto the back and hoisted the dinghy into the davits and cinched it down firmly. Tomorrow at daybreak, we’ll head north to Carriacou.

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