Friday, April 23, 2010

Along the way.

We are on Union Island, part of the Grenadines. We will be here about a week before heading farther south. We were in Canuan when an older fisherman swam up to the boat and wanted to sell his catch. The reason was because he didn't have a boat. Every morning he swam out , fished and swam in to sell his catch. We bought 5 lobsters and a crab one day and 5 lobsters and a fish the next. We paid 40 EC each time (about $16 US) and gave him a ride in to shore. We also gave him cookies for his kids. After that we sailed over to Mayreau and went out to town for a cold drink, town was a mile away UP hill. Later we made the trip again to go to Dennis's Place for a drink and an appetizer of whale. Whale is still hunted in Bequia and we were lucky to be offered this local rarity. It looked like well done beef roast but tasted like fish. Very odd indeed. From Mayreau we sailed to the Tobago Cays and swam with the sea turtles and snorkeled the reef.
As our camera is still not working we uploaded some pictures that we took this year around the BVI's for your pleasure.




An actual working distillery.









Sour sop, a fruit.

Breadfruit, cooks like a potato.




Thursday, April 15, 2010

Canouan

We are in Canouan, part of the Grenadines. We hope to move on to Mayreu and the Tobago Cays today. As we said before, our camera is no longer working so we added more pics from carnival in Port de France, Martinique. We got these from friends Bill and Colleen from Dolce Vita.


Covered in Molasses. We don't remember why.



















Burning the effigy of evil.






Thursday, April 1, 2010

We have posted a few more pics that we got from Bill and Colleen while on a road trip in Matinique.

Grand Anse D'Arlet

Depaz Distillery. Each tank is stainless steel and holds about 10,000 gal. of clear rum. This is how the clear rum is stored (outside). The aged rum is stored inside while aging.

Bill and Colleen in front of the Depaz Castle.



The Castle's back yard. Cricket anyone?


Painted wall in nLa Marin.