Sailing through the Caribbean Grenadines

Bequia: We get the boat ready and sail out to Bequia for Diving, some last Provisioning, and a Hike out to Friendship Bay

Sailing to Bequia It was nice to get back onto a small yacht again after not sailing a bigger boat since our last family trip to the British Virgin Islands 6 years ago. It took us a while to get out of Barefoot. When you go with the 10 year old "Bargain" boat you have to try everything out before you leave the charter company or else you will be sailing off with stuff that doesn't work. Our onboard power inverter turned out to be bad and we had no 110V plugs that worked. We had a guy sail with us to Bequia and help us figure out the boat. The sailing here is much more satisfying then in the BVI with good winds every day. Mom would get a little squeamish when the boat would really start to keel over but I was really enjoying the thrill of sailing. A guy took this picture of us sailing over to admiralty bay were we were going to anchor for the night. Bequia is a really great island. It is away from the hustle bustle enough to make it easy going and yet there is enough there to keep you entertained with lots of little restaurants, bars, and other little shops. I liked bequia the best and see why our friends the Murphys spend a couple of months there every year. We only had limited time that night after our late start but we hiked up to Pearl's restaurant for a beer and a view of the sunset. You can see the view of Admiralty bay from Pearl's below then another shot of the sun going down over the hill to the South West. We then went down and had a great dinner at the Gingerbread house restaurant along the beach.



	The next day we went ashore and hiked up over the hill to friendship bay from Admiralty bay. There is a dollar bus you can take but it was nice to stretch my legs a bit. I went ahead but my parents discovered this small cave on the southern side of the Admiralty beach alongside the trail that leads up to the road to Friendship bay.	On my hike down to the bay I met up with these four young kids playing hakisack with a cheap basket ball. I hung around and played with them for 20 minutes. All the people on the islands speak english but when they talk to each other their is so much slang and island talk mixed in you can't understand them at all. I finally left the kids when they started telling me that I should give them my different belongings. Friendship bay Beach is really gorgeous and has quite a nice bar hotel at the eastern end. I hung around and waited for my parents to show up.

They had these signs on trees along the beach in Admiralty bay. I guess people got pretty sick more then a few times to justify the signs. They also had several signs about littering that people had cleared ignored. Friendship bay was more remote and trash free.
	The rasta market along the main drag in Bequia is a must see during your visit. The rastas are nice but things will get a little out of hand if you don't split up your shopping between them. In, typical western fashion I failed to bargain down their prices but they were nice enough to start throwing free bees in such as extra fruits and bannanas. You must get your hands on some ripe avocados, they are to die for!
	Peter is in the picture above because we actually sailed back to St. Vincent to pick him up before returning to Bequia for a day of scuba diving and relaxing!
			Are You My Mommy???

	Here are some shots of us hanging around the cabin of the boat after dark. Our boat is a 41 ft Jeanneau. It is from 1997 and so ten years old. It works out just about right for the four of us.
		Our little dingy works out great for cruising back and forth from the boat.

Next we sailed on over to Mayreau.