The Grenadines

Have had a cracker of a sail tonight, we left Bequia yesterday morning for Dominica 160nm and it looks like it is going to take us 26 hours been some very nice sailing although now we are in the lee of Dominica and having to motor the last bit. Anyway the Grenadines.....we've had a great couple of weeks it has been really fun. Met a few new people and also been hanging out with our Argentinian friends we met In Tobago Sonia and Luis. Been catching a few fish, buying a few fish and basically just hanging out cooking fish and drinking a few beers. In Mayreau, Saline Bay we hung out for a good few days and met a really nice couple from Spain/Brazil, they had met our friends earlier also in Brazil so had a lot to talk about and we will hopefully meet them along the way as they have the same rough plans as us for next year also.

We can't see everything in the short time we have in the Eastern Caribbean so we just make the most of what we can staying if we like it a good few days then moving on. So we only saw a few of the Grenadine islands but liked them a lot although there are a lot of Charter boats as to be expected and they reckon December the boat numbers triple! Also the ARC Atlantic Rally brings 230 yachts to St Lucia starting to arrive in 10 days so we figured get the hell out and try and jump ahead;) Bequia is a very nice island, beautiful protected bay with lots of restaurants and little shops and was good fun for a few days having a good party ashore our last night. Now for Dominica, it is the poorest country of the Eastern Caribbean so hopefully we fit right in! Also there are meant to be lots of really good fruit and vegetables  something that is hard to find in most of the islands we have seen so far.