Day 11 Monday April 25, 2005 Sand Island, Carricou
We’ve come into the town of Hillsborough. It’s a charming town and all three of us like it. Lynn and I share a mango shake on ice as we walk along main street. Soon we’re at a corner. Do we continue? “You looking for the vegetable stall? It’s just down a ways”, a voice calls out. We gratefully continue on and soon enough we’re buying potatoes, pineapple and cocoanut from a tiny roadside stall. Coming back we stop in a tiny grocery store. Bill tries to buy mutton for a stew but Lynn is making ugly faces. Shop for yourselves she ways as she pick up a block of cheese and a can of pasta sauce. Bill and I are carrying out the groceries except for the big bag of ice which Lynn insists on carrying actually hugging as we walk down the street. It’s 10 AM and the heat of the day is on us. Bill stops at a local grill and buys a couple of chicken roti. These will be our lunch.
We head back to Chispa and weigh anchor for Tyrrel Bay, just around the corner. We drop anchor, load the water cans into the dinghy and head over the Carriacou Yacht Club where we fill up. It also gives me a chance to send a belated birthday email to my niece Kate who turned 7? On the 22nd. I explained that Lynn and I were at see and had been out fighting pirates so we had missed her birthday but we hoped she had a nice time. Later we learned that she thought getting an email from a boat was the coolest thing.
This harbour isn’t as nice as where we were so we motor back to Sand Island and get back in the water for another swim. Dusk is falling and we watch the pelicans diving for their dinner. The terns are crying and some of them stand on the heads of the pelicans as they come up, screaming for a piece of fish. Life sure is tough.
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| Sand Island | Sea Birds | Pelicans Circling | Pelican Diving | Pelican Splash |
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