Happy New Year from both of us on "Freya" to everbody out there. We're in English Harbour, Antigua enjoying the calm after the craziness of Trinidad. It's gorgeous here - it's ten years since we've been here - and we had forgotten what a pretty island this is. We're now here for just over a week - we got here just in time to spend Christmas with "Shian". We'll be here for a couple of weeks before moving on to St Maartin.
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Still here on the hard waiting on the weather turning nice (again)!! We came back on board after a walk round the boatyard and found this wee green soul on the deck - he was really quite tame and only disappeared when I brought the camera out to photograph him!! (A bit like Alan does!)
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Jack and Agnes arrived in Trinidad on a cruise ship again. It was great to see them and we had a lovely day. We did the "Trini" thing and went to the beach and had bake and shark (or is shark and bake?) for lunch - anyway, it was very good. Then we explored Port of Spain in a taxi, before we dropped them back off near the cruise ship dock. CHOGM (Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting) is being held at the end of November and lots of entertainment is being organised for HRH. We saw some of it as we wandered around the Hyatt Hotel area.
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I've finally managed to upload Jochan's videos onto YouTube - so have a look and enjoy them!! Thanks to "Bluesong".
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I've been trying to upload these videos all day to YouTube. I've still got another one to add, but it just won't "go", and of course it's a really good one. Never mind, these are good. Have a look ... Thanks to "El Lobo" for these ones.
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Dom from "Sparrow" performing her fire spinning is a popular feature at Sails Restaurant from time to time. You've got to be fit and supple to do this.
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I've been sitting all day trying to sort out my photos of Venezuela. I took somewhere in the region of 350 photographs, and I've got it down to about 114. Unfortunately, I can't put them all on the gallery in this blog, it would take forever.
If any of you cruisers out there want some information on how to get to Canaima and the Angel Falls from Trinidad, please let me know. Twelve cruisers (six boats in all) based in Chaguaramas for the hurricane season had the time of our lives last week.
It turned out to be an eight day/seven night trip. We discovered we could take a ferry from Pier 1 in Chaguaramas to Guiria in of the Gulf of Piria. The ferry only runs on a Wednesday. The biggest problem was how to get from Guiria to Ciudad Bolivar, but that was all sorted out for us by Branko and his lovely girlfriend Betty. They took care of all the accommodation, the bus between Guiria and Ciudad Bolivar, the plane journey from Ciudad Bolivar to Canaima, and then the indiginous canoe to Angel Falls and return. They made sure our whole stay was a really memorable one. Thanks guys - it's really appreciated. We had a wonderful time.
The photograph is of the Hacha Falls in Canaima - we walked behind this waterfall and got extremely wet!!
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Well, Steve, Lynn and Katie (ex Melika now Stellawa [spelling?]) are still in the yard. A couple of weeks ago Steve fell of the scaffolding which holds the boat up. He broke two ribs. Lynn is now in charge of repairing the hull. You've heard of the lady in red, well Lynn's the lady in blue. Note the stylish blue ensemble, with gorgeous matching hat, Armani style glass ware and the latest in Prada breathing aparatus and a new designer label - Jotun for handbags!! Very fetching and extremely classy for the up and coming yachting ladies.
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Well, we're probably going to Angel Falls in Venezuela for 7 days on 7th October. Who wants to come with us?
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I've finally managed to sort the photographs out from last weekend. It's amazing what you can do with Photoshop!! Go the Gallery to see some of the others or click on "Trinidad 2009" on the right hand side of this page.
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Independence Day in Trini was celebrated in true Trini style, with pan and fireworks. Here's some snippets to keep you interested, but just enough
to make things annoying!
The Starlift Panyard dancers:
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and of course; pan ... ;
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don't forget the Tassa Drums ; ;
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We're still up on stilts in the boatyard. Alan as usual is getting himself into all sorts of weird shapes and predicaments. Here he is, trying to stop a few leaks in the bow. He wasn't too happy that I snapped him while he was up there - he thought the camera flash was an electrical wire going "bang"! We've been packing and unpacking the foc'sle to let us into the anchor locker every day now for a week. We have to repack it at night so we can get to bed. The rest of the boat is a complete shambles - oh well, off to the pub again ... can't cook in this shambles - it's a great way to get out of cooking!!
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We got hauled on Wednesday and are back to being a cottage on stilts again. We'll be in the boatyard until about November.
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Well, we're back "home" in Trinidad after 8 months sailing. It's great to be back. We're on "C" Dock in Powerboats. Lots of projects planned. More later ....
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I should have updated this blog when we arrived in Carriacou about 2 weeks ago, but I didn't!! Tut tut. We'll be here until tomorrow when we hope to move down to St George's in Grenada.
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