In Barbados

I arrived in Barbados on 16th December, staying in an airbnb conveniently close to Dover beach. I did  a lot of swimming  and some checking out of information ready for Scruffbag's arrival. On 20th December,armed with beer and fresh food, I was delighted to meet him in the dinghy at the  careenage in Bridgetown. After lunch and beers on board, Matt and Rosie left for their airbnb, promising to meet up before we all went our separate ways. Scruffbag and I caught up on news and talked about the crossing.All had been fine and everyone had got on well.

Time taken. 18 days
Fastest day 138 miles
Slowest day 80 miles
Strongest wind 45 knots
Number of fish caught 5
Minke whale swimming round the boat for a few hours

Scruffbag and I remained at anchor in Carlisle Bay and spent a great Christmas Day on board with Matt and Rosie, who brought vegetable dishes,rum and cocktail stuff.

We joined the sailing club for free for a week, enjoying glunches in a love!y setting and availing ourselves of the water tap which is in a few metres of water attached to a buoy in the bay. Every day a group of race horses was brought down to the beach for a swim. The first time we saw them it was quite a surprise. We were sitting in the  cockpit eating breakfast when we heard a horse whinney !

 New year was spent quietly on board, drinking rum and watching the fireworks. When I say quietly, I am not including  the noise from all the parties on the beach, where the music blasted till morning. This was actually a regular weekend feature, the music being  ok but the shouting DJs hard to handle

It took Scruffbag about a week to catch up on his sleep and then we managed some visits.

We went to Farley Hill, a ruined plantation house.

We went to Andromeda gardens on the  east coast, where we .saw amazing plants in a lovely. setting as well as lots of humming birds,which were, unfortunately, too fast to capture on film.

We also saw the lovely,wild beach at Bathsheba.

On 7th January we walked around to the port and spent a few hours signing out ready to leave for Grenada next day.