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Trawler day for a whopping 10 miles around the tip of Union Island, drug the lines but no bites. Wind on the nose but at 5 knots, not much going on. Crew is in recovery mode from last night but Chatham bay does not disappoint.
Striking out on the provisions hasn’t hurt us, we just helped the local economy by chilling at the beach bar run by Seykek and Vanessa. Seykek, not exactly sure how that’s spelled, even if it was on the plastered on the side of his boat, but he is the nicest boat boy around. Patiently waited till we had the hook good and set 30 feet from us before he told us about his girl’s beach bar and happy hour. Whats not to like about happy hour? so we took them up on happy hour drinks for about 5-8ec and general good vibe.
We met some great sailing folks from 2 yachts who shared some great tips!!
Since we were here 5 years ago, a couple of new beach hut/bars have sprouted up, including one high end Italian place called Aqua with 20ec drinks and also very nice boat boy that gave us the flier.
Still love this place, even if we have not adult beverages on board. We did get some awesome sunset pictures. Last time here we spent 3 nights here this time we have already cleared customs and are to head south tomorrow, again a 10 mile distance.
We fired up the Honda to make electricity to support the watermaker as we went beach walking. Of course it ran out of gas while we were at the beach bar, but the water maker kept making water so we are no 1/2 full of fresh water. Showers for everyone! And I need one, after sweating out all that rum all day.
As we were beach walking we heard someone yell “Sugar Shack”, its almost like walking down 5th street in Austin. Turns out it was the same folks we met at dinner at a restaraunt in Bequia with Shawn and Sharon. We passed them yesterday too, they are on a moorings 46 with a bunch of pirate flags as we were leaving the Tobaggo keys.
Before Beach Walking I had taken some wings out of the freezer, and some of the Mahi. Oh my, that was the best fish ever! Shawn you rock, catch us another! Fish for tomorrow as well as its in the fridge for tomorrow. Can’t complain, weather is good, quiet bay, few more boats then when were here last but its all good.
After dinner/snacks of wings and fish – we went back to get a beer and meet some more Canadians on Cat Tales 38 catarmaran, and Magique a C&C monohull, nice folks also on their way to Trinidad, and this is not their first trip south so they shared some good insights in to what to expect and how to pronouce the names of the places we are going. I totally butchered them! So we’ll be at Sand Island tomorrow based on their recommendations!