August 4. Prickley Bay, Grenada

We're are having such a relaxing time, we even forgot to place our new position report. We spent 3 days in the lagoon in St. George and mainly relaxed. We have use of the showers at the Yacht Club Marina for not even 50 cents a person and the drinks at the bar are not bad wither and the view over the lagoon, which by the way is an underwater crater, is magical. The laundry is another thing, a washer load costs EC$ 8(US$ 3) and dryer costs 12 EC$ ($US 4.50). I had 4 loads of washer and 3 dryer and paid over 25 bucks and had to do my own laundry, ouch that is expensive.
The town itself is very charming and the shopping is fun if you go down town to the vegetable market, I found all kind of exotic stuff and even came home with some cashew fruits, we learned of in El Salvador. The fragrances of nutmeg, saffron, turmeric, vanilla, mace, paprika, curry and others are wide spread in town. I went through four grocery stores and wasn't all too happy on what I found, especially in the meat department, all is frozen, nothing fresh and meats are cut into unrecognizable pieces, so it looks like we'll be living of chicken legs, which by the way are almost the size of turkey legs, and baby back ribs, those are really good, had them twice already. Vegetables are scares too and not all too fresh. We have to get used to the local currency as the change rate is 2.67 to 1 $US, so a calculator come in handy. Yesterday I took the bus over to Grand Ans and checked out the Food Fair but not much better, but the Spice Market is a far better store and actually has some fresh beef to a very high price so it's going to be chicken and ribs. As I was back at the dock I called Sid on VHF to pick me up and somebody else answered and wanted to know if that was the Paradise with Sid and Manuela on it. Ed and Linda on Dreamtime were two years ago in the Ortega Yacht Club Marina with us. So since there was a potluck on Friday at Hog Island which is just a bay before Prickley were they staid we sailed around and stopped to see them. So nice to finally run into cruisers we know. We never made it to Hog Island for the potluck, I wasn't feeling well all day long and so we just relaxed where we were. Saturday we'll head back to the lagoon in St. George. Carnival is just around the corner, which we decided to stay, so we're going to head back to the Lagoon before everybody else does. Something I keep forgetting to mention is that we're amazed about how cool and pleasant the evenings and nights here in the Caribbean are. If the weather holds up we'll we be able to be here for Carnival. There is a low building across the Atlantic, which could be our next hurricane, so we'll keep a close eye on it and if it decides to grow into a storm, we'll leave with or without Carnival and sail straight to Venezuela.