Antigua

We arrived in Antigua on a Friday evening after the finish of the yacht race RORC 600. Friends had invited us to a party on this mega yacht owned by someone from Microsoft. That was fantastic sooo much food and drink and all free. After the food we went to the yacht club where a fantastic band played and everybody was dancing. We had a great time. Antigua is the place for the mega yachts though. It all seems a bit over the top. Mick jagger's yacht 'Cinderella' was in the harbour. Our friends had seen him but he told them not to take a photo.
We hiked up Shirley Heights and got hopelessly lost. We did get to the top though and had a fantastic view. I preferred to coconut crush drink to the view though. It is a mixture of coconut water, coconut cream, pineapple and ice.
Wonderful concoction a bit like piña colada without the rum I suppose.
We spend a bit of time with Graham and Gina from Curlew and also met up with our Dutch friends Loud and Marlene from Rafiki. We sailed around the island to Nonsuch bay where we anchored out behind a reef. Ah the tranquility (lol) but this one for real. We snorkelled and generally just relaxed.
After that we sailed around the island again to Jolly Harbour. Lovely place with a great supermarket. That is as long as you hang on to your docket because the security is there to look at your docket if you get something like a carton of beer. Grant actually left his docket on the counter and the checkout girl put it in the bin. Gail asked if she could look in the bin but the girl said it would not be there and she did not remember Grant. We had a great time looking at security camera finally spotting Grant and then they still had to go through the bin to find the offending docket. Anyway 'when in Rome' so now we keep our dockets.
We go to the pub with a big pool every afternoon happy hour 2 for one cocktails and Grant his bucket of beer.
Today we went to St John (capital) on the bus. I don't know how people would like to hear gospel songs through loudspeakers in the mall in Perth, but here it sounds divine. I have twisted my knee and had strapped it up to walk. While I sat somewhere this guy comes to me selling aloe vera plants for burns. Except he did not want to sell it to me he told me to take the bandage off because you can not do that in this hot climate. 'That is why your foot is swollen. I had actually thought that my strap was getting tight of my fit flops. Good advise and my foot went straight away back to normal.
On the way home home the bus driver said that with the lords help he would deliver us safely to Jolly Harbour. Well The Lord must be with him because we are now safely sitting on the yacht with a cup of tea.