NYE at sea! The passage from Tobago to Carriacou, one of the Grenadines, was like out of a picture book. We had almost no waves, and even though the wind was quite weak it was strong enough to carry us all the way to our destination without us having to switch on the engine. The moon set around 10pm just when I came up for my watch and it looked like a yellow smiley face disappearing into the ocean. Since we are on this side of the Atlantic, the moon seems turned on its side when it is not full. So it is either an arch slowly filling up down towards the bottom or a half-circle open to the top, like a smiley face with no eyes basically. Very weird since we are used to seeing the moon lying sideways.
At midnight everybody got up and we toasted to the New Year with some sparkling peach wine and had some banoffee pie that Anton and I had made the day before. Since it was also Thomas’ birthday on the 1.1. and Anton’s on the 2.1. we decided to make 1 birthday cake for the 3 of us. Together we turned 115!
After checking in in Carriacou we moved onwards towards the Tobago Cays, a set of small and often uninhabited islands north of Carriacou and towards St.Vincent. There are sailboats everywhere and we finally anchored at and island called Palm Island, which was very pretty but also looked like it was covered by a hotel resort so after we swam to shore and had a look around, we spent the rest of the evening on the boat and decided to leave the next morning to hopefully find a less crowded place somewhere.
(Photos: dropped anchor in Palm Island, Kitesurfers all around, Anton's Birthday Cake)
After we celebrated Anton’s birthday with another big breakfast, we sailed east and after about 1h we found a spot behind a tiny island in ridiculously turquoise water with only 3 boats around. Well, that is 50 meters past the other 40 boats anchoring on the beach on the other side of the tiny island. It is busy here and we don’t like that but it is beautiful.
(Photos: all the green drops are the other boats, anchor lights and sunset, busy but beautiful)
We go snorkelling off the dingy and see a lot of turtles just grazing on the sea grass in about 6m of very clear and again, super turquoise water. We also see a big group of rays again.
(Photos: we on anchor and the rays)
The next day we leave the bay and set sail to go south, back to Petite Saint Vincent and Petit Martinique, where we will spend our last night on the boat. Anton, Ellie and I will be leaving Moira on the 4th of January in Cariacou, and then go our separate ways but all flying out of Grenada on the 7th.
The final crew picture!
