Isle de Rhonde, Bye...!
05 July 2010 | Part of the Grenada 'chain'....
Becca
This is where we decide whether to go left and see the windward coast of Grenada or NOT...
This is Isle de Rhonde on our port side...due east...Diamond Rock on our starboard side, three sisters up there past Isle de Rhonde and finally Grenada in the FAR-ground. We are going to discuss our choices...I would love to make a left here to the east, then make a hard right down the windward coast and head south. First I think it would be exciting having never done this, that's sail on the windward coast of any island, hanging right when we get to the south coast and have the wind and SEAS behind us! We ALWAYS sail on the lee coast to our lee destination or always have to round the southwest corner with the wind and seas on our nose for a south coast destination.
Dudley is the captain...and he's right...again...the wind is outta the south/southeast and the tide is running southeast to northwest. There we are again, he explains, tacking east because west is not an option (Grenada, the country, in the way) and we'd be in the same place as later on...bashing into the wind and seas on our nose. He said, she said...
By going with the "HE SAID" OPTION...we may have time to stop at the next choice which is "Dragon's Bay" to dive off Moliniere Point.
Again...We'll see! By going THIS way we are going to have to set a course very far West...2l0 or 220 to clear Kick'em Jenny! This is the underwater volcano that does erupt every so often, still... Again, Dudley Do Right insists we clear the 5 mile exclusion zone instead of the l.5 (no activity for a while) zone that 'She SAID'.
Again, you'll find out when we do...
Dudley and Bec