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We arrived in Bequia on November 24th. It is a beautiful island in the Grenadines with a long history of boat building and whaling.
The local ice cream is delicious.
The "Whaleboner" bar. The bar is made from the jaw of a humpback whale and the stools are made from vertebrae.
Admiralty Bay in Bequia. A Windstar cruiseship is in port dwarfing our little boat in the bay behind it.
A Rasta housing project:)
We visited the turtle sanctuary. The Hawksbill sea tutle is endangered yet is still caught in many of the islands. This sanctuary is run on donations and collects eggs from breeding sites throughout the Grenadines. The turtles are raised to 5 years of age and then released in the wild. About %60 of the hatchlings survive to be released. In the wild it is estimated that 1 in 1000 survive to 5 years.
These little guys are about 2 years old.
Kenny explains the difference between the green sea turtle and the hawksbill turtle(right).
This hawksbill turtle is 5 years old and ready to be released. She will not be able to breed until she is 25 years old!
Sunset in Admiralty Bay Bequia.
On November 26th we headed from Bequia up the west coast of St. Vincent and on to St. Lucia. The trip took about 11 hours and we covered just over 50 miles. We had good wind most of the way, but had to motor up the west coast of St. Vincent while we were in the lee of the island.
A fisherman several miles offshore in his little rowboat.
The lush jungle of St. Vincent comes right down to the steep shoreline. The volcanic peaks are lost in the clouds. the island gets 150cm of rain a year.
The set of Pirates of the Caribbean. You might recognize the dock and buildings from the first movie.
Our next stop is St. Lucia. Click on the St. Lucia page for the continuing saga.
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