Pigeon Island anchorage had everything we were looking for. A great bottom for our anchor to dig into, good snorkeling, a nice beach, easy access to discount grocery stores, and a little peace and quiet.
Everyday boats come and boats go, watching everyone anchor is a boater’s past time. It’s especially interesting when the wind comes from different directions. As you can see in the picture above these boats are pointing in different directions. When the wind is light, we found that instead of the boat tugging on the anchor, it hovered over the top of the anchor with the chain zig zagging underneath and the boat drifting around on top. The wind always picked up at night and we tugged hard on that poor lonely anchor dug into the sand.
I think it was Friday night, Feb 1st, around 11pm. We had been asleep for hours, our schedule is way off here, when we heard a crash and the boat jerked. Eric and I flew out of bed looking for the boat or rock or whatever it was that we smashed into, but there wasn’t anything around. So, the smart thing to do is check the anchor. Our normal anchoring technique is to put our 5 times the chain as the water is deep, this keeps the anchor and chain flat along the bottom so as to keep the anchor from pulling out of the ground. Next we attach the snubber, a line that has has some stretch to it between the boat and the chain to act as a shock absorber. Well, the wind was so strong and maybe the snubber was getting old but it snapped. After a few head scratches we put together another one to get us through the night. Whew, no crashes today.
Other things we do when we’re not adventuring is Genny likes to dress up Marie.
Eric works on his long list of projects. Today’s project was to install his ‘no smoking fasten seat belts’ sign. At first Eric took the picture at night and our solar panel displays showed zero amps going in, so I had him re-take the picture during the day to show each set of panels getting a respectable result. We get an average of 20 amps on all four panels all day because of shading and cloud issues.
Roy has been searching for a pull up bar, we suggested rope climbing. He climbed about 20 feet up on that blue halyard using his hands only.
Eric supervised the whole thing.
Then when Roy’s foot knocked a wire off the lights Eric just installed on the spreader Roy sat on, Eric had to go up to fix it. While he was up there he took some interesting pictures.
Like me waiting to bring him down and Topaz swimming. We have to attach her to the boat because she doesn’t always come when she’s called.
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And of course the most precious solar panels. Because of these panels, we never have to run the engine or generator to charge the batteries and the refrigerators are nice and cold. Since we don’t have to use fuel to charge the batteries we’re only down about a half tank on the fuel since Grenada. But as you can see, the radar, wind generator, mast and boom have the ability to shade the panels at times. On these windy nights the wind generator pulls it’s weight.
Other good windy, stay at home days are good for making kites.
And flying kites too.
Easy discount provisioning is the other bonus for this anchorage. Eric took me to the dock at the end of the Leader Price and Carrefour markets. Things like milk, juice and Coke are heavy and a pain to deal with. I was able to get quite a supply and walk the shopping cart right to the dinghy. Next week when we head north, we’re going to stop and get enough of these drinks to last us until Miami. Leader Price also has everyone’s favorite tasting box milk for about 1 Euro per liter. Since these islands don’t have any diary farms, no one sells fresh milk. I managed to get a few jugs in Grenada, but rarely see it in the market. This has me wondering how I’m going to provision for next winter in the Bahamas if I’m planning to stock up in the U.S. before we leave. I guess we’ll have to have a box milk tasting and then try to order a few cases of the best stuff.
At home my kids bring in all kinds of critters from lizards and butterflies to a bottle full of bees. Today they were snorkeling behind the boat when Roy saw a shell moving on the bottom. Further investigation showed that a baby octopus was hiding under it.
He brought it aboard for further observation and built a habitat for it.
In the bigger bucket they gave it different colored shells and rocks to watch it turn colors and invited the neighbor kids over to check it out too. The neighbors are from Denmark, their dad wanted the kids to play so his kids could get some practice in English. I love cruising the Caribbean because Americans and Canadians are a small percentage of the boats as compared to Mexico where most of them are from North America. So far we’ve met people from Denmark, Belgium, Spain, Portugal, UK, Australia, Canada, French all over the place, we’ve seen Austria,Germany. I have a World Wiki app on my iPhone we use to identify flags.
