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31 December 1998 - Thursday
High Temperature 85ºF- Low Temperature 75ºF

Sunny, blue skies, with a few puffy white clouds. Nice wind.

30 December 1998 - Wednesday
High Temperature 85ºF- Low Temperature 75ºF

After heavy rains during the night, partly sunny, blue skies, with a few puffy white clouds
and scattered rain showers throughout the day. Nice wind.

Two separate groups from Denmark came into the office and after greeting each other and speaking their native language,
they surfed the net and checked their e-mail. The five-masted, Seacloud was anchored outside the Hillsborough Harbor.

The Views out the Window...   I was just thinking... about the fact that for the past several days we have had a lot of rain. When I say lot I mean for normal standards given we usually receive NONE.
It's been falling mostly at night and if during the day, then always followed by blue skies and those famous
"few puffy white clouds" I write about day after day after day.
I was also thinking about the Grenadines.net visitors down here at this time of our "liquid sunshine."
What might they think about the rain? My experience says it ranges from,
"Thank goodness for a break from the sun, surf and bright blue skies;
my nose and ears need a break!"
to... "Doesn't it ever stop raining?! I came for sun, sun, sun!!!"
But back to my point, who can predict the weather?
Then, I'm looking out my window and it looks like the street lamps are on
but I know we don't have any street lamps,
well, a few, but not enough to light-up the window at 19:14.
Then I notice it's not street lights, it's the moon.
I don't need a telescope to see the Man in the Moon.
He's so close I reach out and poke him in his two round eyes
and see how his head is tilted to the left like a man with style sometimes tilts his hat.
The nose.
The mouth looks like he's smiling.
And sooooo close he is to me tonight.
Rain! What rain? Look at the moon.
I just bet tommorow will be back to sun, sun, sun!!!

29 December 1998 - Tuesday
High Temperature 85ºF- Low Temperature 75ºF

After heavy rains during the night, sunny, blue skies, with a few puffy white clouds. Nice wind.

Grenadines.net visitors from the States checked-out of Roundhouse Cottages and a family from Italy checked-in. Roundhouse still has a cottage available mid-January 1999 so reserve now to avoid disappointment. A couple from the USA with two babies started their 7-day charter aboard S/Y Drôle d'oiseau. The weather turned rainy yesterday and after overnighting on Tyrrel Bay where the sea remains flat even during bad weather they set sail today in full sun for their trip. Two couples checked-out of Cassada Bay Resort today after spending Christmas on Carriacou. Cassada Bay has availability during January. Contact Cassada Bay.

A man from Denmark stopped by on his trip from Trinidad to St. Lucia. He is attempting to make the entire trip via local, island boats and when he returns to Denmark he will post a message to the Grenadines.net BBS so others interested in taking the adventure can have benefit of his research and experience.

28 December 1998 - Monday
High Temperature 84ºF- Low Temperature 75ºF

After heavy rains during the night, sunny, blue skies, with a few puffy white clouds. Nice wind.

 The Grenadines.net On-Line Reservations homepage is up and running.

A quiet day in the office following the Christmas/Boxing Day Holidays.
Printed New Year's cards for a man from Harvey Vale and several people surfed the net and checked e-mail.

27 December 1998 - Sunday
High Temperature 84ºF- Low Temperature 75ºF

After heavy rains during the night, sunny, blue skies, with a few puffy white clouds. Nice wind.

26 December 1998 - Saturday
High Temperature 84ºF- Low Temperature 75ºF

BOXING DAY HOLIDAY
Sunny, blue skies, with a few puffy white clouds. Nice wind.

Airline Seats to The Grenadines Are Closing-Out Fast. Book Now & Avoid Disappointment

25 December 1998 - Friday
High Temperature 89ºF- Low Temperature 75ºF

SEASON'S GREETINGS  Sunny, blue skies, with a few puffy white clouds. Nice wind.

A group of five gathered at Margaret Allen's Hillsborough loft apartment for Christmas Dinner. Two double doors enter from Main Street at perhap's Carriacou's busiest intersection complete with bakery, phone company, museum, travel bureau and agency, boutique, rum shop, restaurant and bar. All this activity at street level disappears as you climb the winding staircase to Margaret's apartment on top. One, V-shaped, high-ceiling roofed room with folding doors to the outdoor patio facing Hillsborough Bay's Jetty. The yachts bobbing at anchor at Sandy Island. The small, locally-made work boats also anchored allowing their fishermen owner's to enjoy the Christmas/Boxing Day weekend.

The menu is compliments of Sue Kennedy and guests include Patricia and Danny Joseph and "me"self. 20-pound roast turkey, roast potatotes, gravy, dressing, steamed- brocholli and carrots, baked bread, cranberry sauce, chocolate walnut cake and a glass of red wine, only a glass 'cause "if Margaret even just smells the cork..." The food was to perfection and most welcome given my usual faire of island provisions and basics.

Sue is so excited about getting a "real phone" into her Cherry Hill home to replace the "out of range" cellular she has endured for the past several years while waiting for the telephone posts to reach her scenic, yet remote, hillside home that she has Danny stop by my office to load up a Hewlett packard desktop so that when she gets home she can get connected and back among the e-mail community. Look for more from Sue in 1999 as Grenadine.net continues to grow. Her life companion, Bill, is quite an accomplished artist and will soon be back on Carriacou and into his studio atop the tower on Sue's hillside home.

24 December 1998 - Thursday
High Temperature 89ºF- Low Temperature 75ºF

Sunny, blue skies, with a few puffy white clouds. Nice wind.

This Hillsborough "butcher shop" is doing a good holiday business. Located on the "Back Street" behind Grenadines.net, the shop is run by a local called "Fat Man." The name is a good one given his bulging belly. Just before sunrise, Fat Man and a few friends slaughter the animals and from my bedroom window I can hear the screeeeech of the dying animals. Work then begins to clean off the hair and then the meat is placed in a large, iron pot (six feet or more in diameter) which sits atop three large stones and the remainder of the hair is boiled off. The meat is then hung on hooks beside the road. Customers drop by and select the meat they want and Fat Man then draws his cutlass and "chop, chop" the meat is cut and placed into plastic bags that the customers bring with them.

Captain Eric from the S/Y "Drôle d'oiseau" was in to work-out the final details for his charter next week with a young American couple with two small children.

The Anglican Priest on Carriacou, Fr. Bob, was by with his daugher to pick-up some Christmas cards.
She chose cards from the Bill Boersma Collection.

Tom stopped in with Holiday wishes. He owns and operates Tom's Backpacker's Retreat located in Hermitage, Tyrrel Bay.

A German lady who has a house in the Village of L'Esterre came by to have me type a letter to Grenada's Prime Minister Dr. Keith C. Mitchell. He has called a new election for 18 January 1999 and we will see if he is re-elected or not.

A woman from England who lives on Carriacou several months each year came by to talk about the new speedboat she and her Grenadian boyfriend purchased. I told her when I had a similar boat I learned:
a speedboat is a hole in the ocean surrounded by wood that you shovel money into.
People here on Carriacou use speedboats like others use a car: local transportation.

23 December 1998 - Wednesday
High Temperature 87ºF- Low Temperature 75ºF

Sunny, blue skies, with a few puffy white clouds. Nice wind.

A local from the village of Windward came in to surf the net to look for a passenger ferry boat to buy and several people from Sweden, Denmark and The Netherlands soon followed suit. A travel website from France contacted me this morning advising that they had linked our Sailing The Grenadines webpage to their site. Grenadines.net is now linked with over 200 other internet travel websites. A local lady came by to print 1999 calendars with a picture of her new baby.

The Views out the Window...

Christmas shopping... Carriacou Style

It's the day before the last day before Christmas and out the window I watch.
The streets are not crowded and parking places abound.
No one waits in traffic. I still hear the sound
the island makes when its dogs, and goats and sheep and birds talk
Atlantis "Big Blue" is anchored in the Bay and on this day
both tourists and locals leisurely stroll along the narrow sidewalk
sipping soft drinks and local beer.

I see just as many people without plastic shopping bags filled with holiday surprise
and nowhere to be seen is an idea on their mind in conflict with enjoyment
of this beautiful, sunny day.

Christmas on Carriacou is food.
Much time and no expense are spared making certain the table contains food enough for everyone to have until the words, "NO more, I'm full" are spoken. Today the table remains abundant yet all have said "NO more." We'll have some drinks and tell some stories and there's food enough if hungar should return.
Christmas on Carriacou is family.
The final resting places of loved ones past are cleaned and care is given at year's end to see that all is well for the beginning new year. Markers will be placed as family members return from far-flung nations to remember the dead. Time will be spent here beside the beloved. Early in the day they come and late into the night they stay. It's peaceful there and the breeze is always warm and the stars shine brightly. Tommorow the family again gathers but this time on the beach for a cook-out and swimming, and laughing and fun of all flavor. Time again is spent and well after darkness has fallen the family remain.

22 December 1998 - Tuesday
High Temperature 87ºF- Low Temperature 75ºF

Sunny, blue skies, with a few puffy white clouds. Nice wind.

I printed music cassette covers for the 1998 Carriacou Parang Festival.
A young couple cruising The Grenadines and two locals from Windward stopped by to check their e-mail and surf the net.

Letter to Santa
Ah got a phone call straight from Santa
Telling me this year he cannot reach Grenada
So he asking me to explain the situation to all the children of the nation
So I took an inventory to send back for he so what the children require
But they have this young feller who came with a letter telling me to read out for Santa

Ah thought he was clever to write such a letter
Six years old this boy must have gone through some pressure
So I had to promise he, personally
I will deliver his letter
He say a reunion with his father is the only thing Christmas could offer.

Ah never see me father
Since I was deliver
But mummy telling me He is right here in Grenada
So I'm reaching out to all children like me
So Santa could give them back their Daddy
This Christmas morning, Ah patiently waiting
I know Santa will deliver
So under Christmas tree don't put no toys for me
Put a warm and hearty welcome for me Daddy.

Chorus:
In his letter read Dear Santa, Ah want me Daddy and Mummy back together.
Six years now Daddy left me Mummy and that broke up me whole family.

21 December 1998 - Monday
High Temperature 87ºF- Low Temperature 75ºF

Sunny, blue skies, and a really nice wind.
On the Monday before Christmas, ... printed more flyers and business cards for Lee and Lesley's Studio on Tyrrel Bay....printed more "Advertisement Signs" for S/Y Tatoosh... sealed in plastic several honor awards for island youths... worked on a greeting card for The Steel Pan Orchestra, The Originals, from St. Vincent... walked down to the Inland Revenue Office to pay our monthly sales tax... picked up a few provisions... and called it a day.

17-20 December 1998 - Friday and The Weekend
High Temperature 86ºF- Low Temperature 75ºF

Sunny, blue skies, and a really nice wind.
It's been too long since I went sailing so quick arrangements were made with Captain Thomas of S/Y Leona and off we went to nearby Union Island's undiscovered secret - Chatham Bay. Thomas' 46' Stainless Steel Ketch is anchored on Tyrrel Bay so I packed my sunscreen, light nylon, long-sleeve, jacket, a few t-shirts and shorts and after raiding the refrigerator of its string green beans, callaloo, eggplant, grounded coffee, red/green hot peppers, onions, and a head of cabbage I went down the side steps to catch a bus to Harvey Vale. Beside the Barclays' Bank and opposite the Marketing Board, is my bus stop where I wait until I see Norbert heading my way. The EC$2 ride drops me off in front of the Alex Supermarket and the French Restaurant Poivre et Sel. I go up the side steps to use the VHF at Poivre et Sel to alert Captain Thomas that I've arrived and I see everyone inside packing to go to Canouan in Olivierre's Glossy Dive speedboat that's tied outfront on the small, floating jetty. They'll be on Canouan in about 45-minutes, Magaly's daughter says, and we'll be in Chatham Bay in two hours I think to myself.

Thomas comes to Scraper's Jetty and I meet him inside the Alexis Supermarket to add items to our weekend menu: ground beef for the speghetti, bread, bacon and eggs for breakfast, milk, Coca Cola and ice cubes. Leona's new paint job shines as we approach in Thomas' Caribe dinghy pushed by Evinrude. I notice immediately that new varnish has brought out the teak throughout the yacht. Seems like now is the time for all captains to have their charter yachts refurbished and repaired for the up-coming 1999 Season.

While Thomas stores the provisions downstairs in the gally I snoop around. Nice double cabin in the bow. Sturdy, reliable head and shower outside. Room for six-eight around the saloon's dining table with two small open berths nearby for lounging or sleepy kids to sleep. Fully-equipped gally with top burners, oven, refigerator, and sink. Another single cabin to the rear that Thomas assigned me. I'm six foot and 175 pounds and I had no trouble stretching-out to full length. I had the option of opening three portholes for ventilation but I chose the top hatch instead given the strong, steady breeze at our Chatham Bay anchorage.

While Thomas got his yacht ready to set sail, I surveyed Tyrrel Bay. There's S/Y Kyrimba, and over there is Drôle d'oiseau , and FireflyB, and Tatoosh. One last rest for these captains before they plunge into the 1999 Sailing The Grendine Islands program. I am amazed at the constant house construction going on. Sections of Harvey Vale that once had a single house look like small villages now with 5-6 new constructions. Sleepy Carriacou is on the verge of awakening.

We use the motor only to pull-up the anchor, and we turn in full sails toward Union Island clearly visible ahead. We tack at Hillsborough Bay's Sandy Island and sail as the crows fly over to Union Island. It takes us just an hour from Sandy Island as we tack again into Chatham Bay and once again inside to where Thomas drops anchor.

Chatham Bay... imagine a bay with two jutting points into the sea with green hillsides sloping steeply upwards to a ridgeline. Chatham Bay is a bowl and perhaps the only such anchorage where even today not a single electric bulb is visable to visiting yachts. Here isolation and seclusion rule. Given Leona's draft we anchor several hundred yards from the beach but come morning the seven other yachts who joined us there that night were scattered widely.

We have drinks and Thomas makes a delicious, creamy meatsauce for the speghetti. Captain John Smith anchors his Mermaid of Carriacou nearby and swims over with a fresh fish the next morning as we're having morning coffee and a hearty breakfast of bacon and eggs. Snorkelers have an opportunity to swim over schools of fish so thick that one can't see the ocean bottom. The birds know this as well as I see them flying low and diving into the water only to flap their wings and fly away with a flopping fish in tow. I notice pelicans, seagulls, crane, boobies, and what looks like ducks. Enough of Thomas' coffee, Ducks?!

The only "development" I notice are two small shacks on either side of the long, sandy bay. Before dark, two guys on a small speedboat "Shark Attack" are selling lobster and early next morning another speedboat offers bread, and other items. As we had provisioned well in Harvey Vale we declined but it was nice to have the chance just in case we had forgotten something. Seems like it would be a shame to depart this anchorage just because we run out of bread and lobster. Thomas tells me that sometimes these locals will cook on the beach, play steel pan, and offer drinks. It was deliciously quiet during my stay.

The Christmas Wind brought us back to Tyrrel Bay in about half the time and I visited Lee & Lesley's Studio Bar while I waited for a bus to take me back to Hillsborough and my home.
Ah... another day in paradise!

16 December 1998 - Wednesday
High Temperature 86ºF- Low Temperature 75ºF

Party cloudy with sunny, blue skies, mixed with a few, brief rain showers. A really nice wind. Gorgeously crisp.

This morning I printed business cards for Florence, who runs a hair salon here in Hillsborough.

The homepage for the Carriacou Yacht & Beach Club was up-dated today. This is a fairly new facility located at one end of Harvey Vale's Tyrrel Bay, a dream anchorage for overnighting yachts, in a lovely, secluded area away from the yacht. tourist and local traffic happening on other sections of Tyrrel Bay. It's not easy to get to unless you come by dinghy so be sure to voice your comments to the owners that they need to initiate a free, dinghy shuttle service between the commercial jetties on Tyrrel Bay and the Yacht Club. Otherwise, its quite a long walk "from where the bus lets you off" or a rather hair-raising taxi ride. Hair-raising, you ask? You'll see when you get there. Notice I said "when" not "if". After spending time promoting the yacht services, the owners have now started promoting their guest accommodation, restaurant, and lounge.

Last night the electricity in Hillsborough when off for about an hour around 17:00. When it came cack on CNN was reporting bombing in Bagdad... go figure. BUSTER EATS FLIES! He watches them fly around the room; his head goes from side to side as they fly by, ever closer; he swats them down; and in a flash he eats them with delight!
Buster is my year-old Carriacou cat.

A travel agent from Italy is sending some clients to Carriacou's Roundhouse after Christmas. This fills them completely until early February. There's still room for a few more late surfers at Bayaleau Point Cottages. These two properties each with just 3-4 small, self-contained cottages located in a family compound on the beach are Carriacou's most popular.
Reserve early and place down your deposits to avoid disappointment.

16 December 1998 - Wednesday
High Temperature 84ºF- Low Temperature 75ºF

Party cloudy with sunny, blue skies, mixed with brief rain showers. Not much wind.

I have added a telephone database to the website so now you can select a Caribbean island and retrieve both residential and business telephone numbers. Thanks go out to the telephone company, Cable &Wireless.

Kate Stroebel from Roundhouse Cottages was in to send some e-mail. She still has a few availabilities between now and Christmas but is all but booked full for January.

Troy from Twilight Restaurant and Bar was in to pick-up more flyers for his business located on Tyrrel Bay in the village of Harvey Vale, Carriacou.

15 December 1998 - Tuesday
High Temperature 86ºF- Low Temperature 79ºF

Tuesday was a simpley gorgeous, weather day with sunny, blue skies, partly cloudy. Not much wind.

Captain Thomas from S/Y Leona was in to send some e-mail.

14 December 1998 - Monday
High Temperature 86ºF- Low Temperature 79ºF

Monday was a simpley gorgeous, weather day with sunny, blue skies, partly cloudy. Not much wind.

Captains Phillipe from the S/Y Tatoosh and Eric from S/Y "Drôle d'oiseau" were in the office
to finalize details for an up-coming charter. Captain Thomas from S/Y Leona was in to up-date the work he's doing on his yacht sprucing it up for the season. She looks just beautiful. Thomas has a 30-day charter in January for a couple from Denmark.

12-13 December 1998 - Weekend
High Temperature 86ºF- Low Temperature 79ºF

Sunday was a simpley gorgeous, weather day with sunny, blue skies, partly cloudy. Not much wind.

I worked on the Carriacou Yellow Pages, a commercial directory of businesses.

Having taken the weekend off, I have 28 e-mail messages to respond to from people interested in putting together a trip to The Grenadines. Thus far this year, I've done 530 bookings and so far (nock on wood...) without problems.

Saturday was a simpley gorgeous, perfect weather day with sunny, blue skies. Not much wind. Around 1:00pm it started raining; and stopped about ten minutes later. Blue skies again with little puffs of white clouds.

Our French, Spanish and Portugese translations of our homepage have been published. Thanks go out to Rachel Whitehead from the S/Y Tatoosh for making these translations for our Grenadines.net friends speaking these languages.
If anyone out there wants to help us with other languages, please contact me.

Captain John Smith from the Mermaid of Carriacou dropped by accompanied by a man from Germany. Mike is spending some time aboard Mermaid "stowing his swag" and plans to devote three months to his getaway. While Mike answered a few e-mails, Captain Smith and I talked about the Impeachment Hearings and other "important stuff."

11 December 1998 - Friday

A simpley gorgeous, perfect weather day with sunny, blue skies. Not much wind.

It was cruise ship day so the Immigration Office came by for 200 more crew lists.

A couple from Devon, England, Roy and Chris, who are building a house on Carriacou, stopped by to surf the net and get caught-up on e-mail. A man from Canada followed to check his Hotmail. He and his family are spending some time here aboard their yacht.

Jeffus Samuel was by to pick-up more business cards.

10 December 1998 - Thursday

A simpley gorgeous, perfect weather day with sunny, blue skies. A nice wind.

Rachel Whitehead from S/Y Tatoosh was in the office to finish the
French, Spanish and Portugese translations of the Grenadines.net homepage.

Johnny Philip is up from Grenada. Johnny owns the Windward Sands Inn located on Grande Anse. He will return to Grenada tommorow after doing some shopping. He is having an International Buffet, a feast of seafood, at his Inn on Thursday, 24 December 1998. Tickets cost EC$30/person. If you're in Grenada, drop by and enjoy the food and socializing.

9 December 1998 - Wednesday

After a gorgeous clear and sunny morning, it started raining again around noon and then stayed overcast throughout the day.
Good for the crops, the animals, and the vegetation.

The Homepage of the Carriacou Parang Festival was up-dated. The 21st Annual Carriacou Parang Festival will be held
from Friday, 18 December to Sunday, 20 December 1998.

8 December 1998 - Tuesday

Starting over the night, heavy rains fell throughout the day.
Good for the crops, the animals, and the vegetation.

Troy from the Twighlight Restaurant and Bar dropped by to print flyers and new menus. The Twighlight is located in the village of Harvey Vale, on Tyrrel Bay.

The captain from the Union Island boat came by to have me print more music cassette jackets for the Original Steel Band. The band performs throughout St. Vincent and The Grenadines.

Crew from the Mandalay came by to surf the net. The Mandalay cruises the Grenadines and stops often at Carriacou. It is part of the Windjammer organization.

I created a new homepage for the S/Y Barbarella. The yacht is based in Martinique and is now available for private yacht charters in The Grenadines.

Emmon's Garage stopped by to print more billbooks.

Uncle Polo was in to print business cards for his Taxi as did Welcome Ray.

7 December 1998 - Monday

Starting over the night, heavy rains fell throughout the day. I like to call days like these: liquid sunshine days.
Good for the crops, the animals, and the vegetation.

Mustique Airways has released their shared charter departure times from Barbados to:
Mustique (MQS), Bequia (BQA), Canouan (CIW), Union (UNI) and St. Vincent (SVD)
Adult-Roundtrip: US$230/EC$620 Child <10years-Roundtrip: US$115/EC$310
Click HERE for Reservation Booking Form:
(Valid 16DEC98 - 03APR99)

Monday
Flight 1246 departs BGI at 10:30am to MQS, BQA, CIW, UNI and SVD
(Overnighting Barbados passengers)
Flight #2288 departs BGI at 16:00 to MQS, CIW and UNI
(Connecting for AA#5460 at 14:08; AA#1385 at 14:10; BWIA#427 at 15:25; AC966 at 15:37)
Flight #888 departs BGI at 17:15 to BQA and SVD
(Connecting for BA#2155 at 15:20; BWIA#901 at 16:55; BCAL at 16:55; AC966 at 15:37 and VS29 at 15:55)
Tuesday
Flight #1246 departs BGI at 10:30am to MQS, BQA, CIW, UNI and SVD
(Overnighting Barbados passengers)
Flight #2288 departs BGI at 16:00 to MQS, CIW and UNI
(Connecting AA#1385 at 14:10; AA#5460 at 14:08; and JM#090 at 12:30)
Flight #888 departs BGI at 17:15 to BQA and SVD
(Connecting AC#966 at 15:37)
Wednesday
Flight #1246 departs BGI at 10:30am to MQS, BQA, CIW, UNI and SVD
(Overnighting Barbados passengers)
Flight #2288 departs BGI at 16:00 to MQS, CIW and UNI
(Connecting for AA#5460 at 14:08; AA#1385 at 14:10; and AC#966 at 15:37)
Flight #888 departs BGI at 17:15 to BQA and SVD
Thursday
Flight #1246 departs BGI at 10:30am to MQS, BQA, CIW, UNI and SVD
(Overnighting Barbados passengers)
Flight #2288 departs BGI at 16:00 to MQS, CIW and UNI
(Connecting AA#5460 at 14:08; AA#1385 at 14:10; BWIA#425 at 13:10; BA#2155 at 14:45)
Flight #888 departs BGI at 17:15 to BQA and SVD
(Connecting BW#901 at 16:55; AC#966 at 15:37)
Friday
Flight #1246 departs BGI at 10:30am to MQS, BQA, CIW, UNI and SVD
(Overnighting Barbados passengers)
Flight #2288 departs BGI at 16:00 to MQS, CIW and UNI
(Connecting AA#5460 at 14:08; AA#1385 at 14:10)
Saturday
Flight #1246 departs BGI at 10:30am to MQS, BQA, CIW, UNI and SVD
(Overnighting Barbados passengers)
Flight #2288 departs BGI at 16:00 to MQS, CIW and UNI
(Connecting AA#1385 at 14:10; AA#5460 at 14:08; BWIA#427 at 15:25; BWIA#603 at 15:25; BA#2155 at 14:30)
Flight #888 departs BGI at 17:15 to BQA and SVD
(Connecting BWIA#901 at 16:44; BCAL at 15:55)
Sunday
Flight #1246 departs BGI at 10:30am to MQS, BQA, CIW, UNI and SVD
(Overnighting Barbados passengers)
Flight #2288 departs BGI at 16:00 to MQS, CIW and UNI
(Connecting AA#1385 at 14:10; AA#5460 at 14:08; AC#974 at 14:02; JM#090 at 12:30; BA#2155 at 14:30; BWIA#425 at 13:10; VS at 15:55)
Flight #888 departs BGI at 17:15 to BQA and SVD
(Connecting AC#966 at 15:37)

Check-in time is 30 minutes prior to departure. Luggage allowance is 20Kg per person. Shared charter departure times are approximate and may have to be adjusted slightly to accommodate international arrivals and departures. Due to flights operating in to unlit airstrips, the transfer of checked luggage cannot be guaranteed on the same day. Passengers are advised to travel with overnight essentials in their hand luggage. Luggage that was not not transported will be forwarded on the first available flight on the next day.

5-6 December 1998 - Weekend

On Saturday, an overcast day. Not much wind.
A simpley gorgeous, perfect weather day on Sunday with sunny, blue skies. Not much wind.

I put-up Christmas lights in the office.

4 December 1998 - Friday

An overcast day. Not much wind.

3 December 1998 - Thursday

An overcast day. Not much wind.

Captain Thomas Cohen from S/Y Leona is back in Carriacou. His yacht looks wonderful having hauled-out down in Venezuela for a paint job, bottom scubbing, and other repairs. He is already booked for the entire month of January 1999 but has available dates during December 1998. Last minute charterers can Contact Thomas.

Captain John Smith from Mermaid of Carriacou was by today to answer his e-mail and send-out some mail. Contact John.

Hezron Wilson from Hi-Tech Refrigeration stopped by to discuss air-conditioning the computer room office.

2 December 1998 - Wednesday

An overcast day. Not much wind.

Magaly le Proust was in the office today. Magaly and her husband Patrick come from France. They own and operate the Poive et Sel French Restuarant in Harvey Vale's Tyrrel Bay.

An Italian travel agent contacted me today for accommodations for his clients. I advised him that until we know exactly when his clients arrive and depart in Grenada, there is little we can do to help as flights that arrive Grenada after 4:30pm require an overnight in Grenada as the airplanes and boats have no night schedules. Likewise, when the international flights depart Grenada in the morning, we always end our guests down to Grenada the night before to be certain to catch their connections. Again, get the airline details arranged first, then make your sailing charter or land accommodations.

A simpley gorgeous, perfect weather day with sunny, blue skies until the early evening.
Then scattered rain showers. Not much wind.

Ivan Godfrey dropped-in this morning, via the Osprey Express, from Petite Martinique.
Ivan was born in England but has been doing his painting over on Petite Martinique.

A young couple from Harvey Vale came by to print busines cards for their water taxi and local island handicrafts.
The name of their boat is Silassie.

Barba's Auto Rentals from Harvey Vale's Tyrrel Bay called to order two more rental books.
Seems everyone is getting ready for the up-coming season.

Stella and her boyfriend were by to print new menus and flyers for their beach bar on Tyrrel Bay.
Stella also plays the guitar and sings.

I went to the Hillsborough Jetty to meet the Alexia AIII up from Grenada. I arrived just in time to see yet another small bus being hoisted on straps from the deck of the boat onto the jetty. I remember one time when a particularly stubborn bull slid out from his strap on the way from the jetty down into the boat hold for transport to Grenada. He dropped about 30 feet into the Bay and let me tell you he was not about to be dragged, pulled or otherwise cajoled into walking back down that jetty for a second try.

Shem Williams, Deputy Chairman of the Carriacou Carnival Development Committee was in to approve two press releases that I then faxed to just about everyone in the country with a fax machine.
Preparations are well underway for our February 1999 Carnival.

Accommodations on Carriacou for January are for all practical purposes booked already. That's just as well as the international airline seats are also near impossible to get.
I still suggest: get your airline reservations first THEN contact us for lodging and yachts.

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