23rd March Prickly Bay Grenada

On the last day of the fishing competition a couple of big marlin were brought in.

 Did a bit of snorkelling around the bay, the best I found close to our anchorage, also managed to organise a dive on the reef at the entrance to the bay, which turned out was me, the owner and a dive master in training, so had a privileged dive lasting about an hour; I would recommend anyone going to Charlotteville to contact Caroline Hardie of Charlotteville Adventure Dive Centre.

 I cleared out on the morning of wed 21^st and weighed anchor at about midday, once clear of the other anchored boats, I secured the anchor and set the sails (and stopped the engine) we had a lovely sail leaving Tobago as the wind and swell was on the stern quarter,

last of Tobago

 but as we cleared the protection of the island the wind swung round to the east and a Northerly swell added to the discomfort, during one clear spell I saw a shooting star clearly, although it was mostly overcast with occasional rain. I furled the jib and took one reef in the main at about 3am to slow us down so as to arrive in daylight. Finally dropping the main and motoring into Prickly Bay at about 8am, so squared everything away at a leisurely pace so as not to incur extra charges for checking in out of hours, so no dolphins, no breakages or disasters only loads of flying fish.

Prickly Bay from sea

In the afternoon I got a replacement exhaust water trap and fitted it, so we are all ship shape again.

Ancorage from shore, Snow White arrowed