There's such a thing called a Dinghy Concert and you're probably wondering What on Water that is. You can probably guess it involves music and dinghies and that sort of thing and well, you'd be quite right.
As we were preparing for our upcoming journey Somewhere South of Somewhere
way back when, we'd often read blogs or pore over photos of strangers enjoying these Dinghy Concerts, all quite enviously of course, as we eagerly anticipated participating in one of these
one day... a day that, for a while, almost never seemed like it was EVER going to get here.
And yet, today here we were!! I was baking up my Banyan Pizza Roll and we were planning to attend our very own first ever much anticipated Dinghy Concert, here in Grenada of all places and how EXCITING !!
Today's event was hosted by Dieter, musician and co-owner of Le Phar Bleu (Marina), located in Calivigny Bay.
We arrived just in the nick of time...
...nick of time meaning, as you can probably guess from the ominous looking dark clouds gathering, resulted in a momentary torrential downpour. It is rainy season after all, yet neither one of us had thought to bring an umbrella or a raincoat or something or anything that might have kept us dry.
In the end, didn't matter as the rain didn't last long,
and before we knew it, the sun was back out, and the place was packed. Which makes me smile because really... did I just say
the place was packed? Reality check... we were in a dinghy bobbing along on the water in the middle of a bay on the Southern shore of the Grenadian Coastline!
Dinghies of all shapes and sizes, makes and models continued to arrive from the nearby surrounding bays. The first few tied up at the tugboat (and for those that don't live life from a boat and don't own a dinghy, Le Phar Bleu organizes a water shuttle to take you there and back). Pretty soon we were three and four and then five and counting rows deep of dinghies tied to each other and all tied to the tug until we were all one massive swaying jumble of constantly moving unsteadiness.
Not that we mind or notice the unsteadiness anymore. In fact, it's the steadiness of life on land that makes us a tad unstable these days.
With the rain done and spitting off into nothingness, the skies start to clear and a beautiful (double) rainbow magically appears overhead,
and the musicians and singers, never once daunted by the downpour, continue to be phenomenal. In fact, we've heard that one song from each and every Dinghy Concert has to be about Grenada, and this years' song was toe-tapping and clapping kind-of-catchy tune, one that if we all had lighters we'd be holding them up and swaying back and forth in appreciation. Nice.
We were rafted up with friends on all sides and everyone brought some delicious munchies to share.
Not to be outdone, Mother Nature responds to the surrounding love and feast of voices,
with a colourful show of her own.
Much too soon later it was time to head home,
waving good-bye in the setting colours of the evening sky.
WOW. Life, music, laughter... all swaying to the rhythm of the music and the waves. What a spectacularly enriching time.
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