Yesterday was our Halloween party and cricket match. We all drank to much and danced to much into the night. As y'all might guess some of the cruisers take Halloween serious and some of us don't. here are a few of the guys in there costumes just for you to look at. Until the next posting See Y'all Down the Road.
Mike & Karen

Hey Y'all,
Yesterday we went to the Concord Falls here in Grenada. They are not the biggest falls here but this is the only one that you don't have to hike to them. The 7 Sisters is a 3 hour hike almost straight up. I just don't know if I want to go take a hike just yet.
Anyway there was about 25 or so of us and we looked just like a bunch of tourist. Some of us jumped in the water like the children we are and had a good time. The water coming out of those mountains is quite cold by the way, it make for real bad shrinkage.
The falls have a couple smaller falls that are within walking distance so I managed to get a couple photos of that also.


After about a hour of the falls we went to a new Rum Shop. Now most of you out there call these places beer joints, ice houses, bars and so on. Here they are called Rum Shops. This one was on a back road that if you didn't know where you are going you would never find this place. Usually during one of these opening you have what is called an Oildown, now I don't have any ideal how it came by that name but what it means is you eat all the local foods of that neighborhood, I guess because we had some stuff that I could not name. Well a good time was had by all with plenty beer and rum to drink and I think Karen and I had our share. O.K. that's about all for this post until next time. See Y'all Down the Road
Mike & Karen

Just a short one for you junkies, if you know my boat Drifter you know she is 43 years old. Now she doesn't look that old but built in 1968 makes her that age. We are anchored next to a vessel that makes Drifter feel like a youngster. Lululua is 80 years old. The boat is all wood of course and looks like it was built last year. The people who own it are just like every other cruiser and that is always working on their boat. We don't call it cruising anymore it is now known as boat maintenance in exotic places.

Here is just a little shot of one of the Mahi Mahi we picked up on the sail from Trinidad. See Y'all Down the Road. Mike& Karen

Well we are out of Trinidad and back in Grenada.The last night we were in Trini Larry through an impromptu BBQ for us and and a few friends that we met at Coral Cove Marina. We had Swordfish that was cooked excellent. A good time was had by all.
We managed to get everything fixed that was needed on the boat and it all seems to be working well.
As y'all can see by the photos we enjoyed the the party and if you have run to the bottom of the post you will see that Karen and I enjoyed the water.






We will be going to a few water falls while here because Karen has to see every water fall on every island we visit.
O.K. until I have something more interesting to post, See Y'all Down the Road
Mike & Karen

Just to let everyone know, we are leaving Trinidad tonight and heading for Grenada. If this posts I'll be lucky because the Internet is so slow at the moment. I have been trying to upload photos of our last day here and night that lasted quite long with everyone saying good by and of course you always have a few that say good riddance. OK until Grenada.
See Y;ll Down the Road
Mike & Karen

Hello Y'all,
Here we are sitting in the marina getting our freezer fixed so we can start putting more than 3 days of food at a time. Anyway while I have a good connection on this computer I'll go ahead and post the photos from Chacachacare ( now if you need to know how to say this island all I can tell you is there are 2 ways). Here goes, Americans say ( catch a canary) everyone else say it correct
( Shocka Ka Sharere) so if you can pronounce that last phrase you have the correct pronouncenation .

Here at the top is a shot from the top of the highest mountain on the island. Karen & I jumped out of the boat at 0900 Hrs. and started up the trail. This damn thing was almost straight up. Two hours later we where back at the boat completly wore out. The say the hike is only 1/2 mile but that's not counting all the twist and turns and the 1/2 mile is straight up.

Anyway we did enjoy the time we were on the island. These are shots of the nunnery with the buzzards on the porch. Now I'm not saying that they weer following us but it did seem to us that everywhere we went there was plenty of these birds around.

The shot above is from the porch of the nunnery and the quarters they slept in, the had plenty of room and a very airy home. Karen is standing in front of the mens quarters and they lived O.K. but were a little cramped, not like the nuns.

Above is the Chapel in the womens quarters which had a lot more room than the men. I guess being run by nuns who happen to be women I can see why.

On the left is the doctors house which is real nice as for as the buildings go.

There was a rumor was that everything was left as it was when the whole island just up and left because they thought it was haunted. i have talked to a few people that was there years ago and claim that there was still dishes and file cabnets,x-ray machines and beds with sheets still on them,we did not see anything. There was plenty of trash and graffiti because the local Trinis think that the water ways and the beaches are there private dump sights.

This is a manned light house on the island and up at the top of that straight up trail that we hiked up. I hope y'all enjoy this rather long post form me . There will not be another for a couple of weeks because we are doing our best to leave Trinidad. The theft of dingies is rampant and now the boats on the hard are being broke into so this is not where we want to be.

See Y,all Down the Road

Mike & Karen

Just a little tease of whats' to come when I decide to post again.
See Y'all Down the Road
Mike & Karen

Well here is how we spend our Sundays here in Trinidad, Karen plays Domino's and about 5 PM we start a BBQ. Larry our Master Chef from Cape Town is the instigator of this Sunday get together and a good time is had by all. If you can see the dates on the photos you will see this was on the 18 Th of Sep. Right after this we left to go to another island to see the leper colony. Those photos will be in the next post and since we don't look at the news paper or pay any attention to what day it is except Sunday and we don't care what time it is except weather it's day or night you don't know when the post will be.

See Y'all Down the Road

Mike & Karen