Leaving Tridad

Doesn't our new cockpit table look awesome?

The Saga of boat work continues, the floor was finally done on May 27^th 4 ½ weeks after it should have been done. Then of course just as Sid wanted to varnish the power went off for two days. He put on three coats of bottom coat and the third one wouldn’t and wouldn’t dry and left us sleeping outside in the cockpit or one night. That was actually very nice as at 4.30 in the morning the parrots awoke us, it’s just so much fun seeing them fly off squawking with each other, it’s quite noisy. The galley counter top still needed to be done and we started to run out of time. They kept telling us oh no problem we’ll get it done. Last Tuesday we got a phone call from Sabrina, the secretary of Fortress that the galley counter company wanted to see us, because they had a major problem. The problem was the color we chose they had no glue to match it and you could see where they glued it together and we were asked to choose another color. So a lot of frustration later we finally got the counter top finished, after almost 9 weeks and one day before we’re leaving. The counter looks great but we are not happy wi

th the lid for the fridge as it has gaps everywhere which is letting the cold air out, so that will have to be fixed when we come back. We are at last minute things before leaving this afternoon.

Of course we did another Hash which was again a hit, although the scenery wasn’t as spectacular as all he other hashes but it was a tough one.

Lonely Phil (his wife is in Canada at the moment) a helicopter pilot here in Trinidad, took us for a fun ride. First we did a beautiful hike in a near by bay with spectacular views, then to Maracas Bay for the yummy Shark and Bake and up to Fort St. George above Port of Spain from where we could see not just Port of Spain but also Chaguaramas where we staid and all the islands.

We also had all our Trini friends over on the boat for a lime, the funny thing about hat was the last hour they were here a pungent dead fish odor was lingering in the cockpit and wouldn’t go away. After everybody had left I went looking for it, I though maybe it was caught under the dinghy, wrong.

Our Trinidad visa is expiring this Thursday and so it is time to leave. A tropical wave with lots of moisture is underway and will hit Trinidad early Thursday morning so we need to buggy today to stay ahead of the wave.

We had a lot of frustrating moments here but also met lots of wonderful people and had a great time and got to see some of the most beautiful places of this island. We will be back next year to find out what the carnival is all about.