On our last sail day we had an early call with the hopes of making it all the way to Hog Island at the south side of Grenada. It was probably a 40+ mile sail, as the crow flies. We had great weather, perfect wind and were able to cut the motors and sail at nice pace of 6+ knots with some winds picking up and a little help from the sea we would hit 8-9 knots surfing down the waves. It really was a perfect way to wrap up our trip on the water.

We decided to tack around the island since we had not “tacked” the entire trip and managed to arrive at the precarious gap of what we thought was Hog Island. There are a lot of reefs, some marked and others not, a lot of wind and of course the seas but we managed to anchor in a nice spot only to realize we were in another bay, not Hog Island. Since we were anchored, we decided to stay and once we got settled we decided an exploration trip in the dingy was necessary. Mostly on a hunt to find beers for the boys. We discovered a little bar in our bay, but we wanted to go to Hog island so we were going to go around the reefs. On the first attempt, we made it around, but sort of realized that we were not going to make it across, so Matt got the oars out and paddled us to deeper waters. We headed back to the boat and on our way back saw a boat named “Texas Two Step” so we had to stop by to say “hello”. As it turned out they were from Astoria, Oregon but were nice as can be and informed us of a bar on Hog Island that had a great “pour” for only 5 EC. They said they were heading over there so we asked to follow them after we returned to the boat to turn on our mooring light and grab some flash lights. Unfortunately they saw a storm coming and couldn’t wait for us, we tried a second time to go over there, but with the rain, bad visibility and reefs we turned around again.

Not all a total loss as Matt cooked up Charlie and it was fabulous. Of course he actually cooks mine and blackens it to where you wouldn’t know it was fresh tuna, but I loved it that way 😉

Rolly anchorage, but nice and quiet