Tropical Diversion: In Tobago Keys

Well Karen has been writing the blogs lately. So I guess it’s my turn. We are in Tobago Keys in the Grenadines. This is one of the truly best places on earth. It is beautiful. The color and clarity of the water is incredible. The water is a bright turquoise. It has some reefs on the inside which are a deep navy blue. The contrast is amazing. There are four islands inside a 5 mile circular reef. One of the islands is a turtle preserve. We snorkeled the preserve yesterday and saw 6 turtles and two huge stingrays. One was a spotted eagle ray the other was a southern ray.

Today we are going to snorkel the reefs. There is just a load of undersea life around here so who knows what we are going to see.

The boat has been running good. I haven’t had to work on the engines in 5 or 6 passages. That may not sound like a lot but it is. I used to have to work on them after even a short trip. But we are still making some rookie mistakes. We took off with out a line secured. Another time we didn’t secure the dingy when anchoring. We still need to do some more checking before we do anything nautical. But we are getting better all the time. When I think how I used to sail when I first got the boat I’m kind of amazed that we got so far. I guess ignorance is bliss, because I was certainly ignorant then, but we still sailed around and had a good time.

It looks like we are going to be in the Grenadines for a while. There are a lot of islands to explore down here and I plan on checking them all out. We may not even get to Grenada. That is unless a hurricane chases us down there. Since it is now August I check hurricane central every day. If there is any sight of a hurricane coming near us I will not hesitate to duck down to Grenada or Trinidad. But other than a hurricane I don’t have any reason to go to Grenada.