Flashback Get’s My Goat 3
Prickly Bay Bingo – A young couple, leaving Grenada by air next day, give up the donkey which they won at Bingo in exchange for $800 ECD. They then help with the judging of a 5 person dance-off for 3 goats.
Security goes hoooooonk!
Marina security is tight. It is provided by a couple of geese, a couple of ducks, and a turkey. Turkey? Well we’re not sure. It’s black and white. But the only turkey we are familiar with tends to be smooth pale pink, missing head and feet, and about to go into the oven on 25 December. But the give away could be the giblets; every year when we open the dreaded packet, or leave it inside the turkey for 6 hours and go ‘oh no’, from what we recall the neck just looks a bit over-sized on the certified pink
Flashback Mustique Blues Festival 2014
Held in Bequia as the Mount Gay Rum Bequia Blues Festival on 25th Jan 2014. Small venue, something like 7 hours of music, after about 5 of which most of the crowd had partied out so it was all down to a handful of people to see it through, which we did.
Fish freezer?
Think there are fish in the Caribbean? Think again! They keep quiet about the fact that there are fish in the sea in this area; but then it’s a bit too offshore for the average trawler. And we are talking quite small boats that land these fish. They are craned off in batches for a few hours, each batch taking about 4 minutes to go through the cranage cycle. The catches are interesting but I’m not sure how we are going to get it in the fridge it’s the wrong shape; either we have GM modified square fish or we
Flower power
Not sure why but on Sunday afternoon there was a crew laying flowers down from the church. No obvious wedding or any clues in sight, but painstakingly laid and watered.
Around Horta
Even the cat is ‘Azores-cool’ enough to sit on the sea wall and let passers by stroke him. A good memorial in paint for Cheeki Rafiki. The town fire station manned by volunteers. Note every inch of pavement is inlaid with patterns. When shops are shut there is an interesting practice of cramming product into the doorways to show.
Under Horta Marina?
Whats going on under your keel in harbour? Normally you could be pretty sure it’s not much but here in Horta a bait ball of shrimp sets the marina alive with grouper, mackerel and yellow fin tuna:
The Amazing Dolphin Highway
When the sea explodes in front of you you get a bit concerned about whatever it is you are about to get into. In this case, slowed to very slow motion, an extraordinary scene meets us as we sail head on into a fast flowing ‘river’ of dolphin. Flashback to Portugal with the upload of the Dolphin Highway filmed first thing one morning with over a mile of dolphins at least 10 across heading north west. View in HD720.