We arrived at Bequia after nightfall and were greeted by Afrika who put us straight on a huge mooring buoy, despite us already refusing another boat boy on the way into the bay.
The next morning we arranged an even better deal with Afrika (than previously), $100ec for 4 nights.
Aside from meeting Otahi (James & Freya) and Luna (Daniel) again, there isn’t much to report about our second stay in Bequia (8 nights).
We did decide to make a rain catcher out of some old spinnaker sail we blagged from the local sail maker with Freya giving me a sewing lesson.
Despite it looking functional we haven’t actually got it to work with any degree of success yet.
Over an evening of Rum punch we also said our final farewells to Daniel who plans to continue south along the Atlantic coast with the intention of rounding Cape Horn (albeit the wrong way against wind and tide!). We agreed to meet up on Easter Island in 14 months time, the things we promise when drunk eh…
Good Luck Luna and I wish you all the fair winds the Gods can muster - Don’t upset them!
I also came up with another recipe named (kind of) after Kat.
Boo’s Batty Fruit Bread.
2 Cups Flour (general purpose)
1tsp Salt
1tsp Cinnamon
1 tsp Yeast (instant)
150ml Water (room temp)
1 Cup Mixed Dried Fruit
2 tbsp Brown Sugar
1 tbsp Honey
More Cinnamon & Brown Sugar to sprinkle on top.
Mix dry ingredients, stir in water & honey, knead, leave in warm, draught free place for 1 hour, knead again and place in pan, leave 30 mins. Dust the top with (more) brown sugar and Cinnamon. Add approx 1 inch of water to pressure cooker. Place pan on trivet in pressure cooker so pan stays above the water. Bring to boil. Place on smallest burner at lowest setting for 25 minutes. Turn out and let cool & dry.
I also think diced fresh apple would work well to make an Apple and Cinnamon loaf…
As water was running low I decided to top up the main tank from our jerry cans and after checking the water in the first can, didn’t think twice about adding the other two. Big mistake! I had forgotten that our previous visit to Bequia we had 2 jerry cans filled by the local Dive shop.
After the final drop was added to the main tank, I happened to look into the can and saw that the last two cans had green growth inside. Aaarrghh…!!! I was pretty sure it was just algae growth and nothing too bad and that it would probably just die off in the main tank due to a lack of light. It did however, mean that we were both now paranoid about drinking the water from the main tank without boiling it, so we only used our fourth jerry can (27L) of fresh water for cold drinks. We will bleach the tanks as soon as possible.
We tried to check out of the Grenadines on Monday afternoon to leave early Tuesday morning, however, being 20 minutes after 4pm we were told that it was going to cost us $45ec due to overtime! Sod that… We would check out tomorrow morning instead…
Tuesday (17th Feb) morning saw James & Freya, Kat and I, once again in line to face the happy bunch that is Bequia immigration. All went according to plan with Otahi leaving a few hours before us and heading for Wallilibou in St. Vincent and us heading straight for St Lucia.
Over an evening of Rum punch we also said our final farewells to Daniel who plans to continue south along the Atlantic coast with the intention of rounding Cape Horn (albeit the wrong way against wind and tide!). We agreed to meet up on Easter Island in 14 months time, the things we promise when drunk eh…
Good Luck Luna and I wish you all the fair winds the Gods can muster - Don’t upset them!
I also came up with another recipe named (kind of) after Kat.
Boo’s Batty Fruit Bread.
2 Cups Flour (general purpose)
1tsp Salt
1tsp Cinnamon
1 tsp Yeast (instant)
150ml Water (room temp)
1 Cup Mixed Dried Fruit
2 tbsp Brown Sugar
1 tbsp Honey
More Cinnamon & Brown Sugar to sprinkle on top.
Mix dry ingredients, stir in water & honey, knead, leave in warm, draught free place for 1 hour, knead again and place in pan, leave 30 mins. Dust the top with (more) brown sugar and Cinnamon. Add approx 1 inch of water to pressure cooker. Place pan on trivet in pressure cooker so pan stays above the water. Bring to boil. Place on smallest burner at lowest setting for 25 minutes. Turn out and let cool & dry.
I also think diced fresh apple would work well to make an Apple and Cinnamon loaf…
As water was running low I decided to top up the main tank from our jerry cans and after checking the water in the first can, didn’t think twice about adding the other two. Big mistake! I had forgotten that our previous visit to Bequia we had 2 jerry cans filled by the local Dive shop.
After the final drop was added to the main tank, I happened to look into the can and saw that the last two cans had green growth inside. Aaarrghh…!!! I was pretty sure it was just algae growth and nothing too bad and that it would probably just die off in the main tank due to a lack of light. It did however, mean that we were both now paranoid about drinking the water from the main tank without boiling it, so we only used our fourth jerry can (27L) of fresh water for cold drinks. We will bleach the tanks as soon as possible.
We tried to check out of the Grenadines on Monday afternoon to leave early Tuesday morning, however, being 20 minutes after 4pm we were told that it was going to cost us $45ec due to overtime! Sod that… We would check out tomorrow morning instead…
Tuesday (17th Feb) morning saw James & Freya, Kat and I, once again in line to face the happy bunch that is Bequia immigration. All went according to plan with Otahi leaving a few hours before us and heading for Wallilibou in St. Vincent and us heading straight for St Lucia.
3 comments:
Dude! Is that a work shirt with the sleaves cut off????
Erm - Yup! Heh, it was a very satisfying feeling taking the scissors to it! 'Sawn off' shirts are now my coolest and fastest drying clothes - I luv em!
Pikey Powa!!!!...
You need to spill some chicken tikka and gloss paint down the shirt to complete the look!!!
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