05/26/2009 This morning I set off from Guadeloupe for Dominica. The plan is to sail onto St Lucia with anchor stops in Dominica and Martinique and then onto St Lucia. I had a wonderful sail out of Pointe a Pitre on my to Dominica. I sailed past The Saintes, a cluster of islands just south of Guadeloupe. The wind was with me the whole way. I ended up with a fifty degree lift in the wind that carried more right to the bay I planned on anchoring in. A lift is a sailing term usually used in racing. It is when the wind veers, or clocks towards the stern of the boat. That allows you to sail more towards your destination and not need to tack the boat at all.
I sailed into Prince Rupert Bay. The town there is Portsmouth and there was, as most time, a fort overlooking the bay. It turns out this is a much larger fort. It housed at its peak during the American Revolution and the French Wars, about six hundred men.
I was met by my first boat boy as I turned the corner into the bay. They are not really boys, but men. This is their lively hood. They offer many services such as helping you hook up to a mooring, water taxi, take you for a snorkel, schedule up excursions, laundry, etc. This is a new experience for me and something I have not been looking forward to. I told the man that I would not need a mooring that I would anchor and he said that he would check in with me later. I made my way to the anchorage and dropped the anchor without any problems.
As soon as I was finished dropping my anchor I was approached by a man on a wind surfing board. He was paddling it and offered to sell me fruit and vegetables. I was the approached a little but later with a man trying to sell country flags. Later that day the original boat boy came by and we talked about a river trip, but it would require more than just me to make it worth wide. I did have him take my laundry though. I decided to check into Dominica as there was very little cost at Customs and spend a few days here.
05/27/2009 First thing this morning I was approached by the first man on a wind surfer again. I bought some passion fruit from him. I never had this before and had to ask him how to eat it. It is really tasty. All you need to do is cut the fruit in half and then scoop out the meat from inside with a spoon and eat it. He also recommended putting some sugar on it. A new experience.
After breakfast I took the dinghy across the bay tp the ferry dock and checked in with Customs and Immigration. I was also able to check out if I left within three days so I did that also.
After working around the boat for the day, I took the dinghy into shore and walked through the village. It is not very large and I was definitely out of season as there weren’t many boaters anywhere. After my jaunt through town, I walked out to the national Park where the Fort is. It was quite impressive compared to anything I have seen so far. To me it is amazing how back then they would use the lay of the land, the bay and the typical weather to build a fort. The bay I was in was a few miles across, but they could defend the whole bay against a navy ship because the ship would always need at some point to tack towards the fort and the soldiers would open up the cannons on the ship at that point. The fort only saw one battle when the French came ashore further south and marched to the fort. The British repelled them and the French left the island. By the mid 1800s, sugar cane had fallen on hard times and the fort was abandoned as were most other forts in the Caribbean.
05/28/2009 Today I set off for Roseau, the capital of Dominica. I was approached by another boat boy on my way in. I did pick up a mooring and his help was welcomed. The only issue I had was that my cruising guide indicated that the cost would only be US$10 for three nights. He charged me US$10 a night. I paid it and also added a tip. I hung out on the boat for the rest of the day and planned on going into town the next day. I was also looking forward to hanging out that evening at the restaurant and bar at the hotel where I was moored at. The was no activity that night so I stayed on the boat.
05/29/2009 The excitement started at about 4:00am in the morning. My boat was boarded by a man. I was able to scare him off, but he was in my cabin looking for who knows what. I am a lite sleeper and thought I heard something moving on the boat, but did not move until I saw him in my cabin in the dark. He was like a shadow. He did grab my safety harness and one of my first aid bags, but dropped them on the way out. He was moving so fast he jumped in the water and swam away from his windsurf board. I decided to leave as soon as the sun came up. I had bad feelings about Roseau. I don't believe I will return there. I know it could have been worse. I did release the surf board as I was leaving the bay. I am happy that as far as I can tell nothing was stolen. I will start putting the hatch boards in before I go to bed.
I sailed into Prince Rupert Bay. The town there is Portsmouth and there was, as most time, a fort overlooking the bay. It turns out this is a much larger fort. It housed at its peak during the American Revolution and the French Wars, about six hundred men.
I was met by my first boat boy as I turned the corner into the bay. They are not really boys, but men. This is their lively hood. They offer many services such as helping you hook up to a mooring, water taxi, take you for a snorkel, schedule up excursions, laundry, etc. This is a new experience for me and something I have not been looking forward to. I told the man that I would not need a mooring that I would anchor and he said that he would check in with me later. I made my way to the anchorage and dropped the anchor without any problems.
As soon as I was finished dropping my anchor I was approached by a man on a wind surfing board. He was paddling it and offered to sell me fruit and vegetables. I was the approached a little but later with a man trying to sell country flags. Later that day the original boat boy came by and we talked about a river trip, but it would require more than just me to make it worth wide. I did have him take my laundry though. I decided to check into Dominica as there was very little cost at Customs and spend a few days here.
05/27/2009 First thing this morning I was approached by the first man on a wind surfer again. I bought some passion fruit from him. I never had this before and had to ask him how to eat it. It is really tasty. All you need to do is cut the fruit in half and then scoop out the meat from inside with a spoon and eat it. He also recommended putting some sugar on it. A new experience.
After breakfast I took the dinghy across the bay tp the ferry dock and checked in with Customs and Immigration. I was also able to check out if I left within three days so I did that also.
After working around the boat for the day, I took the dinghy into shore and walked through the village. It is not very large and I was definitely out of season as there weren’t many boaters anywhere. After my jaunt through town, I walked out to the national Park where the Fort is. It was quite impressive compared to anything I have seen so far. To me it is amazing how back then they would use the lay of the land, the bay and the typical weather to build a fort. The bay I was in was a few miles across, but they could defend the whole bay against a navy ship because the ship would always need at some point to tack towards the fort and the soldiers would open up the cannons on the ship at that point. The fort only saw one battle when the French came ashore further south and marched to the fort. The British repelled them and the French left the island. By the mid 1800s, sugar cane had fallen on hard times and the fort was abandoned as were most other forts in the Caribbean.
05/28/2009 Today I set off for Roseau, the capital of Dominica. I was approached by another boat boy on my way in. I did pick up a mooring and his help was welcomed. The only issue I had was that my cruising guide indicated that the cost would only be US$10 for three nights. He charged me US$10 a night. I paid it and also added a tip. I hung out on the boat for the rest of the day and planned on going into town the next day. I was also looking forward to hanging out that evening at the restaurant and bar at the hotel where I was moored at. The was no activity that night so I stayed on the boat.
05/29/2009 The excitement started at about 4:00am in the morning. My boat was boarded by a man. I was able to scare him off, but he was in my cabin looking for who knows what. I am a lite sleeper and thought I heard something moving on the boat, but did not move until I saw him in my cabin in the dark. He was like a shadow. He did grab my safety harness and one of my first aid bags, but dropped them on the way out. He was moving so fast he jumped in the water and swam away from his windsurf board. I decided to leave as soon as the sun came up. I had bad feelings about Roseau. I don't believe I will return there. I know it could have been worse. I did release the surf board as I was leaving the bay. I am happy that as far as I can tell nothing was stolen. I will start putting the hatch boards in before I go to bed.
Later that morning I had a rainbow which raised my spirits and as I sailed into Fort de France I saw a turtle. I am doing much better now. The boat has been sailing well on I am so happy with the positive wind shifts I have been getting. I did have to put in one tack today when I was sailing into the large bay towards Fort de France. Ah too bad.
This is suppose to be an anchor only stop for me also. I do go ashore to check things as it is a large city. I like the French islands very much. I believe since they are still members of the nation of France, they receive a lot of financial support from the French government. They also use the euro. It feels safer here than on the post English islands. The down side is that they really only speak French and it is hard to find someone that speaks English. There is a large shopping district here in town and I walked around. As before in Guadeloupe, I could not even read any of the menus.
05/30/2009 I still have not checked into Customs and I have that brought on by myself pressure. I had read that there is a marine store that supports Honda generators. I have had a problem with mine as the pull cord is disintegrating. I wanted to see if they had any parts or a manual I could look at. It turned out they did not provide any support and off I went.
I wanted to fuel up before left and more excitement for the day. I found the fuel dock with no problem, but again no one spoke any English and I with no French. I asked for gasoline and they handed me the black hose. I filled my starboard tank, my dinghy fuel tank and both fuel jugs. I left the dock and set off for a anchorage on the other side of the bay to stage for a leave the next morning. As I entered the bay I tried to start my engines and the starboard engine would not run. What is going on? I set the anchor and played with the motor. I decided I better go back to the fuel dock and talk with the attendant. It turned out they gave me gasoil, or what they call gasoline. It is diesel. I now have 13 gallons of diesel in my starboard fuel tank, 12 gallons between my two fuel jugs and three gallon in my dinghy fuel tank. While I was there, there was a man trying to clear into Customs and he was kind enough to do some translation for us. The marina next door provided a place for me to dump all of this diesel fuel. I was able to siphon the starboard tank and dump all of the fuel. I then filled my tanks with gasoline from the green hose. In the States, the black hose is for gas and the green hose is for diesel.
I still could not get my starboard engine to run, but decided I probably needed to replace the fuel filters and spark plugs. I left the marina and went back to the anchorage I was in the night before and worked on the starboard engine. I still could not get it to run after replacing two fuel filters and the spark plugs. The engine would just not fire. I then tried my outboard on the dinghy. I had the same problem. It would just not fire. I am not sure what kind of gas they use there, but it did not smell like any gas I have use. I could actually out some on my finger and hold it up to my nose and it would not even bother me. When it was splashed on the water, it did not even leave a rainbow as most oil products do. Luckily I had a full tank of good fuel for my port engine. I spent over $200 and have no useable fuel to show for it.
To top off a perfect day like this, as I was climbing back on the boat from trying the dinghy, I slipped on the deck and went for a swim. If anyone had been on the boat, I know they would have had a hard time trying not to laugh. I did try to laugh at it. I needed to cool down anyways. I wondered who would be the first to fall climbing from the dinghy to the boat. I guess the odds were with me.
05/31/2009 This morning I set off at 6:00am for St Lucia. I need to resolve this fuel problem and I hope that they use a good regular gas. I expect to pull into the first harbor on the north end of the island as it is an IGY marina. They are common here in the islands and are a first class marina.
This is suppose to be an anchor only stop for me also. I do go ashore to check things as it is a large city. I like the French islands very much. I believe since they are still members of the nation of France, they receive a lot of financial support from the French government. They also use the euro. It feels safer here than on the post English islands. The down side is that they really only speak French and it is hard to find someone that speaks English. There is a large shopping district here in town and I walked around. As before in Guadeloupe, I could not even read any of the menus.
05/30/2009 I still have not checked into Customs and I have that brought on by myself pressure. I had read that there is a marine store that supports Honda generators. I have had a problem with mine as the pull cord is disintegrating. I wanted to see if they had any parts or a manual I could look at. It turned out they did not provide any support and off I went.
I wanted to fuel up before left and more excitement for the day. I found the fuel dock with no problem, but again no one spoke any English and I with no French. I asked for gasoline and they handed me the black hose. I filled my starboard tank, my dinghy fuel tank and both fuel jugs. I left the dock and set off for a anchorage on the other side of the bay to stage for a leave the next morning. As I entered the bay I tried to start my engines and the starboard engine would not run. What is going on? I set the anchor and played with the motor. I decided I better go back to the fuel dock and talk with the attendant. It turned out they gave me gasoil, or what they call gasoline. It is diesel. I now have 13 gallons of diesel in my starboard fuel tank, 12 gallons between my two fuel jugs and three gallon in my dinghy fuel tank. While I was there, there was a man trying to clear into Customs and he was kind enough to do some translation for us. The marina next door provided a place for me to dump all of this diesel fuel. I was able to siphon the starboard tank and dump all of the fuel. I then filled my tanks with gasoline from the green hose. In the States, the black hose is for gas and the green hose is for diesel.
I still could not get my starboard engine to run, but decided I probably needed to replace the fuel filters and spark plugs. I left the marina and went back to the anchorage I was in the night before and worked on the starboard engine. I still could not get it to run after replacing two fuel filters and the spark plugs. The engine would just not fire. I then tried my outboard on the dinghy. I had the same problem. It would just not fire. I am not sure what kind of gas they use there, but it did not smell like any gas I have use. I could actually out some on my finger and hold it up to my nose and it would not even bother me. When it was splashed on the water, it did not even leave a rainbow as most oil products do. Luckily I had a full tank of good fuel for my port engine. I spent over $200 and have no useable fuel to show for it.
To top off a perfect day like this, as I was climbing back on the boat from trying the dinghy, I slipped on the deck and went for a swim. If anyone had been on the boat, I know they would have had a hard time trying not to laugh. I did try to laugh at it. I needed to cool down anyways. I wondered who would be the first to fall climbing from the dinghy to the boat. I guess the odds were with me.
05/31/2009 This morning I set off at 6:00am for St Lucia. I need to resolve this fuel problem and I hope that they use a good regular gas. I expect to pull into the first harbor on the north end of the island as it is an IGY marina. They are common here in the islands and are a first class marina.
Today I made my furthest easting I will do on this trip. I made it east of 61 degrees longitude. I am actually closer to the west coast of Africa than I am to my home in Colorado. The furthest west I traveled on this trip was Key West.
I was making such good time with the winds I had I decided to push on. I made it down to the Pitons and then I was going to have to deal with boat boys, a National Park and I would have to use a mooring as there is no shallow water. I am still very leery after my experience in Dominica and the cruising guide talks about needing to pay for security when you leave your boat. Not in the mood for this. I did sail past the Pitons and they are beautiful. There is suppose to be a lot of good snorkeling in the area and I might check it out on the way back.
I sailed onto the town of Laborie on the southern coast. I made it into the anchorage just as the sunset. It was a beautiful sunset. One of the best I had seen I a while. As I watched it drop off the horizon, I saw a real green flash. This is a spot that goes green right as the sun drops of the horizon. I had seen a shadow that people would call a flash, but this was green. I never saw anything like it before. I was the only sailboat anchored here tonight. That was ok as I have been looking forward to an empty cove to myself. I did sleep with the hatch boards in though.
06/01/2009 The first of June. Official start of hurricane season in the Atlantic. All the buzz is about how storms are starting where they are not suppose to be. It has been that kind of weather all year for me on this trip and it has worked out in my favor most of the time.
I took off early again this morning. My original plan was to sail into St. Vincents and clear in with customs. When I started to read about trying to anchor and make it to a Customs station, it is not all that easy for a cruiser. I would pretty much need to anchor in one bay and find a cab to take me into another town. I decided to push on to Bequia. Bequia is part of a chain of small islands known as the Grenadines and with St. Vincents makes up one country.
With the wind direction I had, I decided I could sail to the windward side of St. Vincents. I have sail the leeward side of all the islands as I came down from St. Martin as I have not had enough of a lift to make the windward side. When I sail down the leeward side I usually need to do some motoring as the islands have enough height in the mountain ranges and size that they block the trade winds from the ocean. Today I had the wind to sail to the windward and low and behold there wasn’t stormy weather when I made it there. I was watching the weather and it typically cleared as the day went on. Not today. I went through a couple of squalls that had wind speeds exceeding 35 knots apparent. I did reef the main sail before the first squall hit and No Rush handled the weather just fine as she always has. After the squall pass through, we had the heaviest rain I have hand since I don’t know when. There was very little wind to go with it. When you have lemons, make lemonade. This heavy rain gave me a chance to scrub down the decks with all the fresh water I could handle.
Being I only had one engine due to the fuel issue, I slowly motored along in a confused choppy sea until the wind started to build again as I passed the southern edge of St. Vincents. I then had a great sail the rest of the afternoon right into Admiralty Bay. Just as I was entering the bay, I had my first boat boy come and check with me. He wanted to know if I was interested in a mooring ball and I told him I just planned on anchoring. With that he left with no issue. I made it to a place to drop anchor and was set for the night. Life is good and I had a feeling this was a good place to be.
06/02/2009 After a good night sleep I siphoned some of the fuel from my port tank and put it in the generator and fuel tank for the dinghy. I was able to get the generator running with no problem. After I mounted the dinghy motor and connected the fuel tank, the motor started on the very first pull. You would not know how that made me feel.
I then took the dinghy into town. I needed to clear into Customs and Immigration. It was the first time I was challenged about where and when I last cleared out of a port and cleared into a new port. I had scheduled clearing out of Dominica for May 30th and did it on May 27th as they would allow a clear in and out if I was only staying three days. The documentation was dated for the 27th and the agent questioned why it took 6 days to make it here from Dominica. I explained about how I was allowed to clear early and that I anchored on my way down here. He did allow me through after that.
After being officially cleared in, I took my usual walk through town to see what was around and hit the bank to pick up some local cash. You need a lot of it around here as they use the EC (Eastern Caribbean) Dollar. It is tied to the US dollar, but the value of about .40 on the dollar. I am paying about EC$8 a gallon for gas. That is about $48 for every gas jug I fill up. It is sort of like monopoly money. There are plenty of restaurants and bars here as this is cruiser and charter country.
On the way back to the dinghy I made a stop in the local fresh market. The people there were really pushing different things. Made my head spin, but I ended up trying and buying new kinds of fruit including mangos and passion fruits. I tried a couple of others, but figured I had enough fruit after buying local grown pineapples, passion fruit, mangos, bananas and a water mellon. I also picked up cucumbers and green peppers.
I took all of the fresh fruit and vegetables back to the boat and grabbed a fuel jug. I wanted to test the gas from the Shell gas station before I started loading up all of my tanks again. I took the jug to the station and handed over a fifty for my first tank full. After making it back to No Rush, I out in a couple of gallons in the starboard tank and needed to suck the fuel through the fuel line from the tank to the engine through a filter. This seems to take forever, but I now have a system down. As I was working on this I looked behind me and the boat that anchored behind me was moving towards me. That didn’t make any sense. My anchor was slipping. I was able to fend off the boat without any damage and then reset the hook. I was happy that my port engine started on the first try which it usually doesn't. I wasn't angry or upset, but happy that at least I was on the boat.
After that little run around I played with the starboard engine and she finally fired up and is running great with this gas. After lunch, I made a run into town to fill up both fuel jugs and made it back to the boat to start filling the fuel tanks. While I was at the gas station, they sold soda as most gas stations do. The different thing was they were selling Coke and Pepsi, but it 16 oz. glass bottles like in the old days. For me there is no better Coke that straight from a glass bottle. I noticed here in the islands that they still use the glass bottles quite a bit. I am happy to see that as they are very recyclable and people tend to return them for the deposit and there is not plastic bottles floating in the bays.
For dinner this evening I planned going ashore. I checked out the local establishments and found Tommy’s Cantina. It is a Mexican restaurant that had some interesting dishes on the menu and the prices are reasonable. I usually want to try local foods, but I could use a tex-mex fix. It turned out I was able to get both. I had a fresh fish dish that might have been the most flavorful dish I have eaten on this trip since Pete's in Little harbor in the Abacos. It blew me away.
When I arrived around 7:00PM there was only one other table with customers. The hostess was going to seat me to next to them in the dining area. I asked if I could eat at the bar and she obliged. I figured it would be easier to have a conversation there as there were the hostess, bar maid and a customer at the bar. It turned out the customer was Pam and she is the owner along with her husband Tommy. With dinner I had a great conversation with an ex-pat from San Diego. We talked about business and she told me how rough it has been down here and I told that it has been the same way through out the trip. This capped off the best day I had seen probably since leaving St. Martin.
I was making such good time with the winds I had I decided to push on. I made it down to the Pitons and then I was going to have to deal with boat boys, a National Park and I would have to use a mooring as there is no shallow water. I am still very leery after my experience in Dominica and the cruising guide talks about needing to pay for security when you leave your boat. Not in the mood for this. I did sail past the Pitons and they are beautiful. There is suppose to be a lot of good snorkeling in the area and I might check it out on the way back.
I sailed onto the town of Laborie on the southern coast. I made it into the anchorage just as the sunset. It was a beautiful sunset. One of the best I had seen I a while. As I watched it drop off the horizon, I saw a real green flash. This is a spot that goes green right as the sun drops of the horizon. I had seen a shadow that people would call a flash, but this was green. I never saw anything like it before. I was the only sailboat anchored here tonight. That was ok as I have been looking forward to an empty cove to myself. I did sleep with the hatch boards in though.
06/01/2009 The first of June. Official start of hurricane season in the Atlantic. All the buzz is about how storms are starting where they are not suppose to be. It has been that kind of weather all year for me on this trip and it has worked out in my favor most of the time.
I took off early again this morning. My original plan was to sail into St. Vincents and clear in with customs. When I started to read about trying to anchor and make it to a Customs station, it is not all that easy for a cruiser. I would pretty much need to anchor in one bay and find a cab to take me into another town. I decided to push on to Bequia. Bequia is part of a chain of small islands known as the Grenadines and with St. Vincents makes up one country.
With the wind direction I had, I decided I could sail to the windward side of St. Vincents. I have sail the leeward side of all the islands as I came down from St. Martin as I have not had enough of a lift to make the windward side. When I sail down the leeward side I usually need to do some motoring as the islands have enough height in the mountain ranges and size that they block the trade winds from the ocean. Today I had the wind to sail to the windward and low and behold there wasn’t stormy weather when I made it there. I was watching the weather and it typically cleared as the day went on. Not today. I went through a couple of squalls that had wind speeds exceeding 35 knots apparent. I did reef the main sail before the first squall hit and No Rush handled the weather just fine as she always has. After the squall pass through, we had the heaviest rain I have hand since I don’t know when. There was very little wind to go with it. When you have lemons, make lemonade. This heavy rain gave me a chance to scrub down the decks with all the fresh water I could handle.
Being I only had one engine due to the fuel issue, I slowly motored along in a confused choppy sea until the wind started to build again as I passed the southern edge of St. Vincents. I then had a great sail the rest of the afternoon right into Admiralty Bay. Just as I was entering the bay, I had my first boat boy come and check with me. He wanted to know if I was interested in a mooring ball and I told him I just planned on anchoring. With that he left with no issue. I made it to a place to drop anchor and was set for the night. Life is good and I had a feeling this was a good place to be.
06/02/2009 After a good night sleep I siphoned some of the fuel from my port tank and put it in the generator and fuel tank for the dinghy. I was able to get the generator running with no problem. After I mounted the dinghy motor and connected the fuel tank, the motor started on the very first pull. You would not know how that made me feel.
I then took the dinghy into town. I needed to clear into Customs and Immigration. It was the first time I was challenged about where and when I last cleared out of a port and cleared into a new port. I had scheduled clearing out of Dominica for May 30th and did it on May 27th as they would allow a clear in and out if I was only staying three days. The documentation was dated for the 27th and the agent questioned why it took 6 days to make it here from Dominica. I explained about how I was allowed to clear early and that I anchored on my way down here. He did allow me through after that.
After being officially cleared in, I took my usual walk through town to see what was around and hit the bank to pick up some local cash. You need a lot of it around here as they use the EC (Eastern Caribbean) Dollar. It is tied to the US dollar, but the value of about .40 on the dollar. I am paying about EC$8 a gallon for gas. That is about $48 for every gas jug I fill up. It is sort of like monopoly money. There are plenty of restaurants and bars here as this is cruiser and charter country.
On the way back to the dinghy I made a stop in the local fresh market. The people there were really pushing different things. Made my head spin, but I ended up trying and buying new kinds of fruit including mangos and passion fruits. I tried a couple of others, but figured I had enough fruit after buying local grown pineapples, passion fruit, mangos, bananas and a water mellon. I also picked up cucumbers and green peppers.
I took all of the fresh fruit and vegetables back to the boat and grabbed a fuel jug. I wanted to test the gas from the Shell gas station before I started loading up all of my tanks again. I took the jug to the station and handed over a fifty for my first tank full. After making it back to No Rush, I out in a couple of gallons in the starboard tank and needed to suck the fuel through the fuel line from the tank to the engine through a filter. This seems to take forever, but I now have a system down. As I was working on this I looked behind me and the boat that anchored behind me was moving towards me. That didn’t make any sense. My anchor was slipping. I was able to fend off the boat without any damage and then reset the hook. I was happy that my port engine started on the first try which it usually doesn't. I wasn't angry or upset, but happy that at least I was on the boat.
After that little run around I played with the starboard engine and she finally fired up and is running great with this gas. After lunch, I made a run into town to fill up both fuel jugs and made it back to the boat to start filling the fuel tanks. While I was at the gas station, they sold soda as most gas stations do. The different thing was they were selling Coke and Pepsi, but it 16 oz. glass bottles like in the old days. For me there is no better Coke that straight from a glass bottle. I noticed here in the islands that they still use the glass bottles quite a bit. I am happy to see that as they are very recyclable and people tend to return them for the deposit and there is not plastic bottles floating in the bays.
For dinner this evening I planned going ashore. I checked out the local establishments and found Tommy’s Cantina. It is a Mexican restaurant that had some interesting dishes on the menu and the prices are reasonable. I usually want to try local foods, but I could use a tex-mex fix. It turned out I was able to get both. I had a fresh fish dish that might have been the most flavorful dish I have eaten on this trip since Pete's in Little harbor in the Abacos. It blew me away.
When I arrived around 7:00PM there was only one other table with customers. The hostess was going to seat me to next to them in the dining area. I asked if I could eat at the bar and she obliged. I figured it would be easier to have a conversation there as there were the hostess, bar maid and a customer at the bar. It turned out the customer was Pam and she is the owner along with her husband Tommy. With dinner I had a great conversation with an ex-pat from San Diego. We talked about business and she told me how rough it has been down here and I told that it has been the same way through out the trip. This capped off the best day I had seen probably since leaving St. Martin.
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