Some Kite Surfing

I tried kite surfing for the first time. It was a 2 and 1/2 hour lesson.  Most of it was learning how to fly the kite. But at the end of the lesson I got to try riding the board with the kite flying. I think I did pretty good. I rode for 100 yards or so. Then I think the wind was just a little light that day because I started to sink back into the water. Then I would lose control of the board. I think I will try it again when the wind is a little stronger. It was good to learn to fly the kite on a light wind day but not so good for actually surfing.

That was last Sunday and since then we haven’t had any wind. It's blowing at 2 to 3 knots right now and we haven’t had anything over 8 knots since Monday. But that does make the time at Tabago Cays great. The water is so clear. We are in eight feet of water and you can see each speck of sand on the bottom. We see all sorts of fish swim by. We’ve seen eagle rays, Southern sting rays. turtles, puffer fish and all sorts of trunk fish.

We have found most of the boats in the Grenadines are french. Which means in a anchorage of ten boats, two or three might speak English. That has limited the amount of friends we have made down here. There are probably ten boats we know the people on and everyone else doesn’t speak English. My french is not good enough to carry on a conversation yet.
Most of the English speaking folks head down to Grenada  We do know two or three people that are friends that do speak English.

The Mandalay showed up the other day, which is the boat Karen and I took our honeymoon cruise on back in 1999.
It still has great lines for a sail boat. I guess it goes out of Grenada now and comes up to the Grenadines. They still have the crab races on the boat and I guess it's the same kind of cruise that Karen and I went on. But Windjammer no loner owns it. It was bought by another company after windjammer went out of business.

                                                         This is me kite surfing

                                                Relaxing on a small island

                                              Max having a good time

                                             Some Trunk fish eating bread

                                                      The Mandalay still looks good