Day 15 Friday April 29, 2005 St. Georges Grenada
We hoist anchor in the morning and we’re in St. Georges harbour by 10 AM, exactly where we were two days ago. Bill sees a friend’s cat and he dinghy’s over to have a visit. Bill and I decide to head back to the market to get more spice necklaces but Lynn decides to stay aboard. There’s no breeze today and it’s hot.
By noon I’m over at the yacht club with Bill. Lynn has insisted that Bill go along as I might get robbed. There is no sign of Al. I call and he says he’s just 10 minutes away. Soon I see him drive up. He gets out, we introduce ourselves. Al hands me my ticket. It’s just one ticket, not two and it’s just one way to Barbados, not continuing on to St. Lucia. Obviously something has gone wrong. Al suggests I wait here and he’ll get the proper tickets but I insist in going along.
It turns out that Al uses a different travel agent and they couldn’t use the confirmation number I had given him so they just booked me a single ticket as Al didn’t know about Lynn. We cancelled the ticket and headed over to the other travel agency. Within a few minutes I was seated and no problem, my tickets were confirmed. I asked if any direct flights had dome up to St. Lucia. The man checked and yes, instead of flying to Barbados today we could fly direct to St. Lucia tomorrow morning. Great I said, let’s book the direct tickets. This turned out to be even cheaper.
Poor Al had been buying tickets and ferrying me around all for nothing. I gave him 50 EC for his troubles. He didn’t need it as he had a fleet of 5 charter boats, a house, several jeeps, etc as part of his successful outfitters business. He was laying low after the hurricane of last season so he had lots of time to help out worried visitors.
Bill had been waiting at the yacht club for over an hour now before I got back. We filled the water jugs although I knew Lynn would be quite worried at where we had been. Yep, she was quite stressed at being on the boat all day in the heat (it was around 2 PM by now) worrying if we were going to make our flight or not. My “Good news honey” didn’t get quite the pleasant reception I had hoped for. Oh well, we had another night in paradise before getting up at 5 AM fot the next day’s flight. Bill suggested we go out for dinner that night but Lynn had noodles and I had noodles and then beef stew with Bill before retiring.