Option 2 for when we sell Quarter moon is to fly over to South Africa and build this boat. You buy them as a complete mould (hull, deck and bulkheads, even all the internal moulds such as the heads and galley and berth) and then all the rest is the easy fun stuff!! Well that’s easy for me to say. The guys were from Cape Town and said it was beautiful there, so you never know…South Africa or Australia. I love the whole part of not knowing where you will be in a years time – what country will you be in and what you will be doing? I suppose it all depends on when and we sell Quarter moon. We have had loads of interest now over the last few weeks and an offer, so fingers crossed one day soon!!
We spent a few days in the anchorage Store Bay and just of Buccoo Reef ( which is apparently the third best dive site in the world). We went snorkelling on afternoon and it was lush there, got to see a turtle again but the only downfall was that it was a bit choppy and it was quite hard work swimming in it. We made our way a couple of days before and anchored in the designated anchorage of Plymouth.
What can I say, we were hoping for it to be really sweet there, just like the two previous bays a couple of miles down the coast. Well the first 24 hours was bloody horrible. We anchored ok with good holding and decided to use the tender and moor on the public pontoon to go and have a look around and check out the hotel. What a relief: Lisa would be fine and the place was really nice, wicked pool and the hotel right on the beach , we checked out the drinks menu which was not too bad either!!
Anyway when we got back we found that the bollard we had tied our rope to had been smashed off – Thank god we actually locked it as it was hanging on by the metal wire . God it made us so angry, whoever did it was no content with just un tying us to make a point we were not welcome there, but to go to the trouble to smash off a concrete bollard – What a twat!!
Then the following morning we are awoken to the fishermen pulling a net right across the boat, he was so close he was holding onto our anchor. We asked him if he wanted us to move… and where can we move to so we wont be in the way - of course we did not mind, if we are in the way its no problem for us to re anchor, but the ignorant git totally blanked us then starting making gestures with his hand to move…..but the idiot by this point had his net running alongside the boat and so we could not pick go forward to pick up our anchor. All we could do was let out more chain and drop back a bit! We were really shocked of the total arrogance of this guy…but what could we do. To top it all off that evening when we were swimming we noticed that our boat had been damaged. Can you believe this – all this is just over 24 hours. It says in the pilot and cruising guides that Tobago is a real treat to visit because not many yachts come compared to the other islands and it is well worth the trip…..well this anchorage was by far the worst we have been to and we have never felt so unwelcome in a place as of yet. We picked up our hook and drove round o the next bay which was only a five minute tender ride form Turtle beach . The reason its called turtle beach is every season between June and Nov these massive turtles walk up onto the beach and bury their eggs in the sand then go back out to sea, when the baby turtles hatch and run straight for the ocean and do not return until they are adults and lay their eggs on the same beach they were born…. Mad really, don’t you think.
Check out this pic of a tiny little turtle that had just hatched…it was so cute.
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