Saturday, 17 Feb: Oohhh what a wonderful night here in Port Egmont. No rocking, no lapping, no sounds from the land. Didn’t even need ear-plugs to get to sleep. We wake up refreshed but to a cloudy day. Actually, a cloudy day is nice for a change. For the first 2 hours it rains heavily on and off. After breakfast Glen is out in the rain wiping down to get the salt off everything. Rain does it eventually but a wipe-down helps get it all dissolved. The yacht next to us must think he is mad, leathering the bright work in the pouring rain.
Meanwhile, Oana starts the task of going through all our food and drink supplies to update her detailed inventory. It’s quite a task, involving going under several of the floor boards… yes folks, while some people keep their valuables under the floor, we keep our food there!! The fact is, there is a lot of space under the floor for stowage. So we keep a lot of extra supplies there. Given how tricky shopping is here, we are now very glad to have fully stocked the boat in Spain last November. All those shopping trolleys were worth the effort.
Taking up the floor leads Glen to initiate a thorough clean there – removing the carpets and vacuuming and polishing the floor boards. And this leads to several other cleaning and polishing tasks both above and below decks. Finally, around 2pm, Oana finishes her task, we have a pasta lunch then up-anchor and head off to explore the next bays now that it’s back to full sun once more.
It’s tricky getting in and out of these bays – they are lined with reefs and shallows but navigation is made easy with the real-time plotter. And to get from one bay to another, we have to go a mile or 2 out into the Atlantic swell to avoid the breaking seas around the headlands that pertrude between each bay.
First we enter La Phare Blu bay where a North Sea lightship, still painted in red, is converted to a restaurant. But the swell looks too uncomfortable to stay the night there, so it’s out again, into the wind and waves, passing the next headland to get into the next bay – Clarke’s Court bay. Lots of yachts in this one and the sea is much calmer. We explore the various small bays and inlets in this larger bay, looking for the best place, and end up anchoring at the head of the bay next to Clark’s Court marina.
After a quick cuppa (tea) we go ashore to explore. First stop Whisper Cove bar for a sundowner. But it’s quiet here so we move across to Adrift, the Clark’s Court marina bar, where we persuade the barmaid that happy hour should be extended for us… to which she obliges! Well, no-ask-no-get, right?! But even this bar is a bit dead, so we head out of the marina onto a dirt road in pursuit of other night life that is shown to be nearby on Google maps. After 20 minutes walking we declare that Google has gone over the top in Grenada. A cocktail bar on the map turns out to be a shack with 2 locals sitting on wooden boxes and some loud music. Google, please re-calibrate!
Unimpressed with the Saturday night life in this bay, we head back to CB in the dark to have an early night.