Nov. 25, 2008 - Sunday - Chez Roger

Where’s the best place for Sunday Lunch/Supper?  Answer – Rogers Beach Bar on Hog Island, which as the photo shows consists of a palm tree covered shack on a beach.  What more could one ask, especially as the sun has now decided to come out at last. The bar can only be got to by dinghy and this leads to a certain sort of ‘select’ clientele, ie drunken yachtsmen (and women – see photo).   Roger who runs it is a really nice local chap and even if he’s not there you can help yourself to a beer and pay him later.  His best decoration is a bit an American attack helicopter on the wall, courtesy of the 1983 ‘invasion’.  Mind you the invasion of the sandflies as the sun sets can be pretty irritating and itchy!!

In fact the forecast for the next week or so is fairly good, so it looks like we are off the Cariacou at the weekend and thence slowly up to St Lucia for Christmas. We spent a quiet weekend in the marina waiting for the forecast bad weather which never arrived and are now, once again, swinging around our anchor in Prickly Bay.  Having spent most of the summer diving in a dry suit in freezing water I am treating myself to a couple of dives tomorrow in water at 29 degrees just to remind myself what it can be like.  Apart from that, we are just doing some tinkering with the boat and slowly slipping back into ‘de Caribbean lifestyle’ ie doing ****** all and taking all day to do it.

Laid back Larry