May 4-14, 2009 Martinique to St. Lucia

May 4-12, 2009

 

We are now in Rodney Bay waiting for the jazz festival to start.  RECETA, MAGUS, ASSEANCE, MAKAI are already here.  As always, one of our first onshore activities included dinner at the Chart House…a must for anyone who loves good baby back ribs.

 

It has been raining for days…  (Heck, if I would have known we took a wrong turn and ended up in Seattle, I would have paid more attention to the GPS!)  We went to ASSEANCE Thursday night (with TUSEN TAKK II, RECETA and MAGUS) to listen to the concert on Pigeon Island from their boat.  The ground so wet at noon, the vendor’s could not get onto the site and by concert time the promoters cancelled the performances.   No music, but the company, snacks and drinks aboard ASSEANCE were wonderful.

 

Friday morning was the first day we awoke to semi-overcast skies and NO RAIN!!!   On ASSEANCE last night, Chris said the rainy weather over St. Lucia was due to a "heat plume", the water around St. Lucia being the warmest in the Caribbean it actually created its own weather.  Now that it has been raining for a few days, the water should be cooling and the rain subsiding.  He also added all this rain is a good thing for the Caribbean; the more it rains, the cooler the water stays and the less likely hurricanes develop.  Sounded good to me  J

 

Saturday evening after dinner with Chuck and Barb at Key Largo, Chuck met Steve (RECETA) at the Jazz venue.  Apparently, Amy Winehouse was a bust.  Completely out of it, she walked off the stage in the middle of a number.  Her press agents later attributed her actions to “technical difficulties”.

 

Sunday night’s headliner was Chicago.  Steve and I tried to pick up tickets in the afternoon, thinking the prices may be lower…no such luck.   Barb and Chuck later said the concert was a lot of fun, Chicago and Patty La Belle both worth hearing.  Oh well, maybe next year. The fireworks, watched from our boat, were wonderful.

 

BLUE and LEAP OF FAITH arrived Sunday, nice to see them again.  We all plan to move to Marigot to see MER SOLIEL on Thursday.  Four PDQ’s in one place almost seems like an owner’s rendezvous. 

 

We last saw VISION, who also arrived Sunday, in Tobago.  More and more cruisers are catching up as we all head south for Hurricane Season.  It appears HS will be a lot of fun once we all make it to Grenada.

 

Our last night in Rodney Bay, we had dinner with LEAP OF FAITH, BLUE, TUSEN TAKK II, VISION and SEA WIND at an Italian restaurant called Antonio’s.   The dinner was good; however, the reason to visit the restaurant is Antonio.  Antonio is a swarthy Sicilian with licentious fantasies regarding Lynn, made clearly apparent by his amorous longing gazes and ever constant touching of her shoulders whenever he stood behind her seat at the table.  As Antonio attempted to describe his recommendations for appetizers/dinner, he would interrupt himself to say, while fondling Lynn’s shoulders, " And this one (referring to Lynn)…this one…is so…so…” suddenly returning to his dining recommendations only to loose his train of thought and repeat "This one…so…"   VERY entertaining. 

 

May 13-14, 2009

 

We moved to Marigot to await the arrival of Kenny and Kathy (MER SOLEIL).  It was important for us to see them as the four of us had planned to summer together for hurricane season at St. Lucia.  Our late change of mind to go south to Grenada meant we possibly would not see them for several months if we did not wait for their return on May 13 from the US.

 

Our last night in Marigot, we had dinner with Kenny and Kathy (MER SOLEIL), Lynn and Bob (LEAP OF FAITH) and Richard (BLUE).  It was, by far, the best meal we have ever had at this restaurant.  Although Kenny and Kathy are staying at the Marigot Marina for hurricane season, we have decided to rendezvous at Tobago Cays as often as weather permits.

 

Amusing note: Earlier in the afternoon, a cruiser dinghied to our boat.  Noting the unusual sight of three PDQ catamarans on mooring balls, one right after another, he asked Steve if it was a PDQ convention.  Steve said there were actually four PDQ’s, another at dock in the marina, but it was not a "convention"