Plan came together. Woke up in the Tobago Keys, bacon and an omelette for breakfast before a morning snorkle/swim. Started with a tenative plan to head straight to the reef, but once we got there we kept going and going and going, practically swimming the length of Keys between the turtle sanctuary and the island we were parked near. Lots of fishies, gopro was and continues to act up, but managed to fill the memory card, maybe there will be some usable shots. On the way back we spotted an awesome spotted ray, small but swimming and gracefully cruising through the water. Damn, of all times to be out of camera, but we made it back to the boat.

Swam back to the boat, noticed the water contour, I could almost reach down and touch the sand in front of the boat with my arm while swimming. Our rudders hovering a mere 12 inches above the beautiful white sand. 12 inches is floating and not touching, Took a slightly different route to the anchor to not go over that shallow spot on the way to pick up the anchor. Windless still taking its time, but we got up and motored the 3 miles to Mayreau and peeked in to Salt Whistle bay, its beautiful but crowded, there was room for us, but last time we did that I was up most of the night with a fender fending off the other boats when the wind died. Didn’t sound like fun, so we kept going to Saline bay, it was pretty empty. We split two boats furthest away, and all was good.

The sand fleas that were on that beach last time, looked to be gone, it was nice and deserted. Then as night approached others came, 3 monos parked behind us, spoiling our well chosen spot. Oh well, we went ashore to find out the real deal with church, and stopped by various watering holes on the hike up the steep hill to church.

First stop, Dennis’ hideaway, Christine continued up to find the mass time at church and drop off some donated items–I stopped and had a beer. Supposedly to get some wifi too. No dice, had signal but no connectivty, so as Christine came back, another local, said the wifi at his place was faster. Okay, I can have another beer somewhere there too.

Second stop, Robert the Righteous, Rasta as they come, full of stories and storied bar, we had quite the converstations and even visited his new VIP addition to his bar. I can say it was fun. Wifi, was better but got mostly caught up in the conversation, church, politics, family, work hard, play hard. Some other charters and crew also stopped by with lots of kids and the drum circle was in full force.

Then it was getting close to dinner time, so back down the hill. But right here is another bar, we he had been to before, so one more, its gotta great view, restaraunt below, and bar above that looks over Saline Bay and Union island. Quick one there, and spotted a grocery store, on the way down the hill, so took it all in, picked up a couple of cold beverages to try. Not sure about them, but gotta experiment sometimes.

Grilled up some chicken sammiches on the boat, and a few beverages to cap off a pretty sweet day.

Church was at 8am, and Christine was told to not to be late by the priest himself, they start at 8am.

Robert the righteous