Sojourn I Sailing

The first stop heading south from Frigate Is was Tyrell Bay on Carriacou. There were many boats in the bay, some short term as ourselves, and some longer term, as the guy who set up a stainless steel fabrication business on an old trimaran in the middle of the bay. Low rent I guess. Carriacou is part of the Grenada group and we could check into customs and immigration here. Another nice island and the first good supermarket we had seen in a while. We spend four nights here before heading south again to get out of the hurricane zone. A noice sail south until we were hit by a heavy rain squall just as we were rounding the south western point of Grenada.
Sue had previously organised a mooring for us at Whisper Bay Marina. A very nice little marina with nice people, great little bay and restaurant, and a meat market with some very nice European, North American style meat cuts. There were a number of Australian boats in Clark's Court Bay (some we had met previously) with nice people and new friendships formed over a few beers and/or wines and/or rum punches.
We decided to have the gelcoat damage (thanks Barcelona) on the stern repaired while here. We spend a couple nights side to at Clark's Court Marine while the guys there did the repairs. We also had the damaged s/s handrails replaced. A guy with a s/s fabrication business on an old mono anchored beside Hog Island looked after these for us. I used the time for a number of other repairs, replace main halyard, fix the solar panel wiring, etc.
Clark's Court Bay is a nice place in many respects but water quality is not one of them. The rum distillery is to blame I'm told. We still had a week or so to wait for Rootsie and I wanted to find some cleaner water of Sojourn 1 so we moved to Grenada Marine. A little further our of the way but a really nice place in a rainforest setting. Again the people were competent, helpful, and friendly. Jan and Pete from Twenty Twenty where they and had some very social times with them as they waited to put their boat on the hard.
Once Rootsie arrived in Grenada we sailed back to Clark's Court to catch up with them, also Patrick and Lilly. While there we caught with with Brain and Lani from KI to say goodby as we would be sailing with Rootise to Bonaire in a few days.
Grenada is a great place with friendly people and generally good facilities. The buses are fantastic, sometimes scary. Example - 20 people wedged into the hi ace van (the same buses in Curacao are limited to 8 passengers), very loud music, two youngish girls drinking beer that had been handed to them by a young guy at a bar we stopped at, most heads nodding in unison to the music. Everybody having fun. All this while the driver drives like a maniac.