At last, in Grenada!

Ernie, just waking up from for his watch at midnight: “What did you do?”

Nati, with her I-din't-do-anything face: “Umm, nothing...”

Ernie: “Why is our speed less than 3 knots?”

Nati: “I'm not sure”

Ernie: “You should've let out more sail”

Nati: “OK...”

Ernie: “Oh, we have the current against us now...”

Nati, huge smile on her face: “See, it wasn't my fault...”

Meanwhile, Louise and Stewart were having a similar conversation on Skylark. Just by coincidence, both skippers were sleeping when we hit the current against us. Also by coincidence, both of them assumed the women at the helm have done something wrong. Yes, we should have known we had the current against us but we haven't done anything wrong and so both skippers have apologized. It is now a laughable anecdote.

And that's how our overnight sailing trip to Bequia went. Overall it was very good, but we saw a little bit of everything: a little too much wind, no wind at all forcing us to start our engine, favourable current and unfavourable one.

Our time in Bequia, the first of the Grenadine islands, was relaxing. It's a small island with a beautiful beach, where the kids spent hours upon hours playing. There was some snorkelling, quite a lot of SCUBA diving and a few hikes. The kids enjoyed going to the Turtle Sanctuary where we learned a bit about the Hawksbill turtles and what the local team is doing to help young turtles reach maturity.

It is here, also, where we reunited with a lot of other boats that we met along the way. Being so close to Grenada, our final destination for most of us, makes the reunion inevitable. Taking advantage of the nice beach and the number of kids, we even had a bonfire. We all had a great time!

The beach in Bequia

The caves where the kids played.

A very stressfull moment...

On our way to the Turtle Sanctuary. The beach on the east side was full of sargasso weed.

The girls saving the world's problems.

With our friends from Skylark

Baby turtle

After about 10 days, we decided to move to Mayreau, our first stop on our way to the Tobago Cays. There's a beautiful beach there too and we spent a few days enjoying the nice water and playing volleyball and cricket/baseball with a stick Matias found somewhere on the beach. Unfortunately there was too much wind and we couldn't go to the Tobago Cays so we decided to move on to Union Island and wait for better weather. After a few days the wind was still blowing too hard to visit the Tobago Cays and therefore we decided to keep moving south and visit them some time during the summer.

Mayreau's beach

We briefly stopped at Carriacau and then moved to Grenada, our final destination for the duration of the hurricane season.

We signed up the kids to a local sailing school for 3 weeks. The adults are working on the boat and arranging the haul out and bottom paint for Taia.

The sculpture garden in Grenada. Part of the fun is finding where the statues are...